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Historic Charleston Foundation (HCF), a nonprofit organization with a mission to preserve and protect the integrity of Charleston’s architectural, historical, and cultural heritage, welcomes nearly 15,000 visitors and residents alike during its annual Festival of Houses and Gardens, now in its 64th year. The Festival during March and April, includes a series of award-winning heritage […]
Sidney Lanier, Poet and Musician Cindy Kelly, author of Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore, A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City, led us on a tour of monuments located near Johns Hopkins University campus. This monument of Sidney Lanier was completed in 1941 by sculptor, Hans Schuler of Baltimore. Lanier was a musician […]
Photographs by Edwin Harlan Remsberg Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 In the first half of the nineteenth century, the most impressive sculptural monuments in America were under construction in Baltimore. Before New York, Philadelphia, and even Washington, D.C., the city built a monument to George Washington, and Baltimore commissioned the country’s first public […]
New Conservancy to Celebrate 70th Anniversary of the Opening of Dumbarton Oaks Park Dumbarton Oaks Park, a 27-acre gem in the heart of Georgetown, will receive new support and hope for restoration on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, with the announcement of the formation of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy. The park was given to the […]
National Cherry Blossom Festival ANNOUNCING THE 2011 NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL SATURDAY, MARCH 26 – SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 2011 The National Cherry Blossom Festival is Washington D.C.’s and the nation’s greatest springtime celebration offering 16 days of diverse programming that largely is free and open to the public. Entertaining and engaging more than one million residents […]
Drink in the breathtaking beauty of Scotland’s gardens through the lens of photographer Allan Pollok-Morris. His five-year study features the work of more than 30 renowned landscape designers and land artists, including Andy Goldsworthy, Charles Jencks, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Arabella Lennox-Boyd and Penelope Hobhouse. Pollok-Morris’ photographs are stunning, but clearly the gardens themselves and Scotland […]
