http://www.flickr.com/groups/684463@N21/pool Enjoy and perhaps contribute to this grassroots compilation of a treasure trove of historical, American backyards.   Vintage Gardens and Gardeners Group Pool Discussion 78 Members Map Join This Group   Slideshow Guest Passes let you share your photos that aren’t public. Anyone can see your public photos anytime, whether they’re a Flickr member [...]

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gardenhistorygirl The Elizabethan Snail Mount The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning. Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and [...]

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October climax set for The Mount – Berkshire Eagle Online By Benning W. De La Mater, Berkshire Eagle Staff Article Last Updated: 05/14/2008 03:00:18 AM EDT LENOX — An agreement between The Mount and its creditors has staved off foreclosure and a May 31 deadline that would have forced Edith Wharton Restoration Inc. to raise [...]

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Table of Contents: April 28, 2008: Table of Contents: The New Yorker – Annotated Magazine only, not online Restoration Drama Rebecca Mead Trouble at Edith Wharton’s house

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Olmsted’s Legacy: Parks for American Cities : NPR – Annotated Listen Now [12 min 36 sec] add to playlist The Bryant Park Project, April 25, 2008 · This weekend marks the 150th anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted’s winning the contest to design New York City’s Central Park. Biographer Charles Beveridge says Olmsted’s work became the [...]

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