Shoals & Tidewater: Thaxter’s Island Garden to Tysons’ River Garden
Saturday, September 27, 2008
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Landscape Gardener, Nancy Wetzel, will visit Heritage to discuss two preeminent New England gardens one of which is featured in the exhibit, Lost Gardens of New England. Thaxter’s Island Garden and Tysons’ River Garden are connected by twenty five miles of salt waterways and were presided over by Celia Thaxter on the Isles of Shoals, and Emily Tyson and Elise Tyson Vaughan at Hamilton House on the Salmon Falls River in Maine. Stories and vintage photos portray these nineteenth-century garden makers, Thaxter and the Tysons, and the twentieth-century garden restorers, Shoals Marine Laboratory of Cornell University and Historic New England. Also featured are those who immortalized these kingdoms by the sea in paintings, literature, photographs and publications: Childe Hassam, Sarah Orne Jewett, Karl Thaxter and Paul J. Weber for House Beautiful Magazine.
Ms. Wetzel specializes in perennial garden design and care for both private and museum properties. She has an interest in landscape history and studied a notable group of women who gardened in Maine at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. This research has taken her to such places as Cornell Plantations, the Arnold Arboretum and the Farnsworth Art Museum to speak on this subject. Nancy Wetzel is a contributing author to Her Past Around Us; Interpreting Sites for Women’s History and has published an essay on Celia Thaxter’s garden in One Woman’s Work: The Visual Art of Celia Laighton Thaxter. Don’t miss this inspirational lecture!
Fees: $8.00 Member, $10.00 Non-Member
Tickets will be available at the door.