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  • Saturday, July 8, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – Wiscasset Homes on Tour

    Homes on Tour 2023 features a collection of private homes in historic Wiscasset Village including some of the most significant and iconic buildings in the neighborhood. While these homes are currently treasured private residences, glimpses of the past remain. See how contemporary taste blends with, and enhances, these notable structures.

    Wiscasset has a long history of inviting visitors into the many grand homes throughout the historic Village. Read about that history at https://www.wiscassetcreativealliance.org/houseandgardentour

    In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, picturesque Wiscasset had a prolific ship-building industry, now long gone, along the shores of the Sheepscot River. But those remaining emblems of wealth – the well-preserved, handsome Federal-style homes – are why Wiscasset is known as “the prettiest village in Maine.”

    Wiscasset’s Homes on Tour features history, splendor, and inspiration!  Read about the 2022 tour in Wiscasset Newspaper.

    Tickets are priced at $30 each (plus processing fee) and may be purchased in advance – Eventbrite link HERE – or in person on the day of the tour, 10am to 3pm, at the parking lot at 36 Water St., Wiscasset, ME 04578. In 2023, several of the featured homes are located in walkable Wiscasset Village. Homemade sweets will be available at each home on the tour.

  • Sunday, August 8, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Charles Eliot and the Nickels-Sortwell Garden

    Landscape historian Marta McDowell talks about Charles W. Eliot II, one of the country’s pre-eminent landscape architects, who designed the Colonial Revival garden at Nickels-Sortwell House, on Sunday, August 8, from 3 – 4:30 at the Nickels-Sortwell House in Wiscasset, Maine.  For more information, call 207-882-7169, or log on to www.historicnewengland.org.  $5 Historic New England members, $10 non members – registration required. Co-sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council.

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  • Sunday, July 19, 3 – 4:30 p.m. – Curves, Carpets and Color – Romantic and Victorian Gardening in America

    Historic New England (www.historicnewengland.org) invites you to Castle Tucker, 2 Lee Street in Wiscasset,  Maine on Sunday, July 18, from 3 to 4:30 pm, when author Martha McDowell explores the development of an American landscaping style from the formal plans of the eighteenth century to the elaborate designs of Victorian high style.  The program is co-sponsored by the Maine Antiques Dealers’ Association.

    Marta McDowell lives, writes and gardens in Chatham, New Jersey.  She shares her garden with her husband, Kirke Bent, her crested cockatiel, Sydney, and approximately 30,000 honeybees.  Her garden writing has appeared in popular publications such as Woman’s Day, Fine Gardening and The New York Times.  Scholars and specialists have read her essays on American authors and their horticultural interests in the journals Hortus and Arnoldia.

    Following the relationship between the pen and the trowel led Marta to the poet Emily Dickinson.  Marta’s book, Emily Dickinson’s Gardens, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2005.  If you visit the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, you can stroll the grounds with a landscape audio tour that Marta scripted in 2007.

    Marta teaches landscape history and preservation at the New York Botanical Garden and Drew University.  She teaches gardening classes for the Chautauqua Institution.  A popular lecturer on topics ranging from design history to plant combinations, she has been a featured speaker at locations ranging from Wave Hill to the Garden Club of Philadelphia and the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville, Florida.

    Marta’s latest gardening adventure was a six-month working holiday in England.  She interned at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Rosemoor in Devon and at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London.

    Her husband summed up Marta’s biography as “I am, therefore I dig.”

    $5 for Members of Historic New England, $10 for non-Members.  Pre-registration is recommended.