AGC eNewsletter - FIRST NEWSLETTER FROM THE ADIRONDACK GARDEN CLUB

November 2017 Volume 1, Issue 1

Welcome to the AGC's First Newsletter

Dear Members:

To increase communications and reduce the number of individual emails from the Club, a newsletter is being introduced this month. The Communications Committee is working to keep all members better informed of Club happenings, upcoming events, and membership minutes all in one email. We plan to publish the AGC eNews on the first Monday of each month once a month from November through April and bi-monthly on the first and third Monday of each month during our active months, May through October. You can expect to receive this newsletter directly to your email address.

Scroll down for information included in this newsletter:

Annual Wreath Workshop
Ruth and George Hart Garden Cards
January 2018 Meeting

The advantages to the newsletter are simple as it will:

Provide a direct link to Club events and meeting announcements with details and RSVP information
Highlight past events including summaries and photos
Remind membership about long-term calendar
Post committee updates from committee chairs
Include links to our website to a press release, upcoming event, or informative page
Increase overall communication among Adirondack Garden Club members.

We hope you find the newsletter helpful. We will love to hear suggestions for things you would like to see posted in it. Please forward your suggestions to Jennifer Lagor (by clicking on her name).

Sincerely,

The Ad Hoc Communications Committee

Lynne Perry and Jennifer Lagor – Co-Chairs

Annual Wreath Workshop

Make Two Wreaths, Give One Away

Tuesday November 28, 2017

9:30 am

Whallonsburg Grange, Essex NY

RSVP by November 7

Delia Thompson

deetee49@gmail.com

518-873-2304

Bring decorations for your wreaths and some to share if you have extra.
Each wreath is $12
Bring a sandwich. Soup, beverage and dessert will be provided.
Guests welcome!
Please send your check payable to Adirondack Garden Club along with number of wreaths ordered to:

Delia Thompson | PO Box 333 | Elizabethtown, NY 12932

If you plan to bring a check to the workshop, or if your check is late, please call Delia by November 7th to give her your order.

Directions to the Whallonsburg Grange Hall

From the South:

I-87 North to Exit 31, Essex Ferry and Westport. At the end of the ramp, turn Right and make an immediate Left (follow signs for Ferry). Go up the hill past the Hilltop Motel and continue to a T junction. At the stop sign turn right (you are now in Wadhams!). At the next stop sign, turn Left onto Route 22, going north. Follow Route 22 approx. 6 miles to Whallonsburg. The Grange is at the corner of Route 22 and Whallons Bay Road.

From the North and from Essex Ferry:

I-87 to Exit 33 Willsboro/Essex Ferry/Route 22. Turn left at the end of the ramp onto Route 22 South. Follow Route 22 about 8 miles into the town of Willsboro. Stay on Rt. 22 as it goes down a hill and crosses the Boquet River. Continue on Route 22 through Willsboro and up a hill. Go past the Village Market and continue on Route 22 (also called Lakeshore Road) another 5 miles to the Village of Essex. You will go past the ESSEX FERRY DOCK to the stop sign. Turn Right, continuing on Route 22. Follow this another 5 miles or so to Whallonsburg. The Grange is at the corner of Route 22 and Whallons Bay Road.

From the West:

Route 86 to Keene. Left on Route 9N. Follow through Elizabethtown until you reach Route I-87 overpass. After overpass, immediately turn left onto Youngs Road. Follow directions – from the south above - following signs for Essex Ferry.

Hart Garden Notecards - now for sale!

The Ruth and George Hart Garden

Photo by Nancy Beattie

Archives of the American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institute

This lovely garden was created in 1973 when Ruth Hart unearthed the foundation of St. Eustace-by-the Lakes Church on her property. The stone foundation dates to 1900 and takes the shape of a broad cross. The church was moved in 1927 to its current location on Main Street in Lake Placid, New York.

The garden note card project was conceived a few years ago, when Ora Smith and I realized that the AGC had, through the years, researched and sponsored five-member gardens that had been accepted into the Archives of American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institution. Among these were the Hart Garden, Darcy Hale's Scragwood, the Colonial Gardens in Elizabethtown, the Paine's Flatrock, and the Fort Ticonderoga Gardens (because Mrs. Pell was an AGC member). The Hart Garden is the first one to be made into a note card.

The cards are blank inside, with a picture on the front and description on the back. Each gift box contains eight cards and costs $10. These are available at Nancy Howard's home,(nancyhoward1@yahoo.com) and my home. My sister, Cynthia Grant, has access to the gift cards while I am away this fall. Cynthia's email is placid51@gmail.com, and her cell is 518-525-3497.

We hope that members will see this as an opportunity to make more visible the exceptional gardens of our AGC colleagues, and will support it with their donations. The holidays are coming, and everyone will soon need a card upon which to write thank you notes!

Barbara Hail, Chair, History and Archives Committee

January Meeting

The Hidden Life of Trees

by Peter Wohllenben

Mark your calendar for our January book discussion: Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland.