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  • Saturday, July 17, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Private Gardens of the Kennebunks

    The Sixteenth Annual Garden Tour, to be held Saturday, July 17, will again  benefit The Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County, Maine.  The nine garden tour throughout Kennebunk and Kennebunkport will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the advance ticket cost is $15 per person before July 1, and $20 per person thereafter.  One featured garden is that of syndicated talk radio Garden Club host Paul Parent.    Generously sponsored by Estabrook’s Color Spot, Digital Research, Inc., Genest Concrete, Libby, O’ Brien, Kingsley & Champion, LLC., and Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution.  For more information contact Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County, 62 Portland Road, Suite 15, Kennebunk, ME 04043, or log on to www.kidsfreetogrow.org.  Tickets are available  by calling 207-985-5975.  You may also email events@kidsfreetogrow.org.

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  • Saturday, June 19, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Summer Street Stroll

    Join the Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County, Maine for a private tour and lecture of Summer Street Mansions in Kennebunk, Maine.  The tour will take place Saturday, June 19, from 6 – 8 pm.  Tour cost is $50 per person and all proceeds benefit the prevention programs of the Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County.  Included in the ticket admission is a lecture at the Brick Store Museum by Kennebunk Town Historian and author Kathleen Ostrander.  The lecture will take place one hour before and has limited seating to the first sixty ticket holders.  To purchase tickets, or for more information, please call 207-985-5975, or email events@kidsfreetogrow.org.

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  • Wednesday, November 11, 1:00 pm – Fun with Flowers

    The Old York Garden Club invites to public to attend its November meeting beginning at 1:00 pm on November 11 at the Fellowship Hall of the First Parish Church, 180 York Street in Old York, Maine.  Award winning master designer Mike Spanos will wow you with his unique approach to floral design.  His program is entitled “Fun with Flowers”.  He is a contributor and featured designer to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is in the  midst of opening a fine arts gallery featuring works in various mediums by local artists.

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  • Saturday, July 18, 10 – 4 – Private Gardens of the Kennebunks

    The Fifteenth Annual Garden Tour will benefit The Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County, Maine.  The eight garden tour will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the cost is $20 per person.  Tickets are available at Carrots & Co., Kennebunkport, Maine, Focal Point Gardens in Arundel, Maine, or by calling 207-985-5975.  For more information contact Child Abuse Prevention Council of York County, 62 Portland Road, Suite 15, Kennebunk, ME 04043, or log on to www.kidsfreetogrow.org.

  • Thursday, June 25, 7:30 a.m. – 6:45 p.m. – Coast of Maine and Seacoast of New Hampshire Day Trip

    The Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture has organized a fabulous day trip on Thursday, June 25.  Meet in the Gray Parking Lot to carpool at 7:30 a.m.  Expected return time is 6:45.  The first garden stop is Braveboat Harbor Farm in York, Maine, the home of Cynthia and Calvin Hosmer.  These gardens were hay fields which rise from the rockbound coast.  Visit the formal front garden, a vegetable garden, an orchard, a woodland garden, and collections of hostas, lilacs and magnolias.  This bit of paradise was featured in last summer’s issue of “La Vie Claire” and has been a participant in the Garden Conservancy’s Open Gardens Day for the past eight years.

    The lovely home of Vance and Anne Mitchell Morgan on Gemish Island in Kittery Point will be the setting for lunch.  The garden, largely designed and created by them, overlooks a tidal inlet and features a rock garden, perennial beds, a fountain garden and a wonderful shady woodland garden.  Colorful containers on the deck show off choice plants.  The Morgans moved to Maine when Anne retired from the Wellesley College Alumnae Association.

    Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, New Hampshire, is a turn-of-the-century estate garden established by then-Governor of Massachusetts Alvan T. Fuller to please his wife, Viola, who loved flowers and especially roses.  Today Fuller Gardens is known primarily for its extensive collection of roses, and Garden Director Jamie Colen will give a short talk about the roses and other features of the Gardens.  A stop at the nearby home of Anne Sinnott Moore for refreshments preceeds heading back to Wellesley.  Members $48, Non-Members $60, includes lunch, snacks, and gardens.  To sign up, log on to http://www.wellesley.edu/WCFH/Courses/OnTheRoadJune09.pdf,  or mail a check to Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481-8203.