Then and Now
Presented by Marta McDowell

This hunt for garden history started with a discovery. It was a “visiting gardens” list, circa 1928, found in the archives of the Morris County Park Commission. Miss Caroline Foster drew up the list for the Garden Club of Morristown. Eighty years later Marta McDowell (and friends) tracked down those properties and a few more for good measure. What did they look like then? Have they survived? Come on this entertaining, informative hunt for the trasures of our gardening past.

One of our favorite speakers, Marta McDowell, lives, writes and gardens in Chatham Township. Her books include Unearthing the Secret Garde, Beatrix Potter’s Gardening LIfe, The World of Laura Inglis Wilder, Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, and All the Presidents’ Gardens. She also teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden.

Business Meeting.

Hosted by Nancy Daugherty, Beverly De Graaf, Claudia Meyers, Marie Nealis, Linda Patten, Gabi Tremml, Sally Walker