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Farmington Garden Club Founders' Fund Celebration
Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Rd, Farmington, CT | Get Directions »
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The Farmington Garden Club will hold its annual Founders' Fund Celebration with a lecture and slide show on Monday, February 13, 2012 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM. This lecture is part of the club's mission to the community and is free and open to the public (limited seating).
Margaret Roach will give a talk and slide show, entitled Nonstop Plants: A Garden for 365 Days. After 15 years at Martha Stewart Living and a decade each at Newsday and The New York Times, Margaret Roach now writes the nationally acclaimed blog "A Way to Garden (dot.com)" and is author of the corporate-dropout memoir, "and I shall have some peace there", about walking away from "success" for a quieter life lived closer to nature.
Expressions commonly heard each September like "the season's almost over" don't sit well with Margaret Roach. She has worked for more than 20 years to make her garden in the Hudson Valley-Berkshires area a visual treat every day of the year. Meet the plants and the philosophy that make it happen, delivered with a dose of "horticultural how-to and woo-woo."
The lecture and slide show will take place at the Hill-Stead Museum Makeshift Theater located at 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, CT
Event Details
| Where | Hill-Stead Museum 35 Mountain Rd, Farmington, CT 06032 |
| Next on | This event is over. |
| Time | 12:00 pm–1:00 pm |
| Price | $0 |
More About Hill-Stead Museum
Home to a few of Monet's haystacks, a sunken garden and a poetry festival, the Hillstead Museum is also rich in Farmington history.
The house was designed and owned by one of Connecticut's first female architects, Theodate Pope Riddle, who later founded and built Avon Old Farms and the beginnings of Winding Trails.
Theodate Pope moved to Farmington after attending Miss Porter's School in hopes of having her own farm. Today sheep can be seen from Route 4, still grazing the pastures on the Hillstead's 152 acres. She left the house as a memorial to her parents, to be left intact, for a museum and gift to the community.
Today the museum is a National Historic Landmark, housing a treasure of French Impressionist paintings including works by Manet, Degas, Monet, Cassatt and Whistler, as well as Pope's own furnishings and library. Tours are offered as well as lectures, school-based programs and the poetry festival in the summer.
Individuals and groups are welcome to paint or photograph the grounds. See the website for details.
Other events here
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