Carlisle
Shame, shame on us- fried chicken, spicy no less for Sunday dinner. No veggies except coleslaw. Hubbie in line for the family style box, movement to my left compelled me to get out of the car. 100 yards away were neighbors from the Radford-Winston area of North Baltimore (near Loyola College ) who were […]
The Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library concluded its House Beautiful Series with “Hillwood: Living Artfully with Marjorie Merriweather Post” . The Executive Director of Hillwood House and Gardens, Kate Markert marked the storied life and career of the “American Empress” Ms. Post. Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress of the Post cereal fortune, was an only child. Her […]
The camellia is the subject of an online exhibit at the University of South Carolina, Phelps Memorial Collection of Garden Books. Mrs. Sheffield Phelps and her daughter, Claudia Lea, (1930s-1950s) the donors of the Library’s collection of garden books, were past presidents of the Garden Club of South Carolina and their garden, Rose Hill, in […]
James Turrell Perspectives, a new exhibit featuring the premier of a new installation entitled St. Elmo’s Light, is now on view at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. James Turrell is an internationally-acclaimed light and space artist whose work can be found in collections worldwide. Over more than six decades he has pursued his fascination with the […]
Eliza Ridgely was considered an accomplished gardener and horticulturist, her flowers came from her extensive gardens at the Hampton estate north of Baltimore. The American Farmer Magazine in 1854 deemed her gardens “as expressing more grandeur than anything in America.” American Farmer Magazine also described the “sophisticated” watering system that Mrs. Ridgely employed in her gardens, “a reservoir at the […]
