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Greetings!
I hope everyone is feeling a huge sense of accomplishment as we celebrate the conclusion of our 84th Historic Garden Week in Virginia. We have once again set the wheels in motion to preserve and transform Virginia's historic landscapes, and to provide young scholars with an opportunity to learn the importance of our mission as they broaden their horizons. We have supported improvements in VA State Parks. Along the way, we have united club members, member clubs and communities in a common purpose. It is with tremendous pride that together we celebrate the beauty of the land, conserve the gifts of nature, and inspire future generations to build on this heritage. Congratulations and thank you to all.
Please join me in offering congratulations and thanks to Huntington Garden Club members for hosting a successful Daffodil Show in Hampton. We all appreciate your hard work. We also thank those of you who exhibited for sharing your talents. Click Here to enjoy photos of the gorgeous blooms and arrangements.
Rappahannock Valley Garden Club members are busy preparing to host our 97th Annual Meeting this month. We look forward to this opportunity to meet and visit with representatives from every member club.
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Suzanne Johnson
Lynchburg Garden Club
"Peonies"
O
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Monday, May 8
Flower Shows Committee, KVH 10:30 am
Membership Committee, KVH 11:00 am
Tuesday, May 16
GCV Board of Directors, Fredericksburg
Wednesday-Thursday, May 17-18
GCV Annual Meeting, Fredericksburg
Wednesday-Thursday, May 31-June 1
Horticulture Field Day, Gloucester
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Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
~Lewis Gannit
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Please join me in welcoming the following new members to the Garden Club of Virginia.
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Alexandria
Jennifer Hooff
Blue Ridge
Leslie Bovay
Joanne Robblee
Huntington
Mari Bennett
Petersburg
Margaret Smith
Rivanna
Cammy Diehl
Susan Overstreet
Toine Wyckoff
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Three Chopt
Tarah Carlow
Courtney Harper
Mary Anne Joel
Deborah Knighton
Carter Miller
Darcie Nelsen
Lane Sanderson
Julee Spitzer
Farrar Wentworth
Warren County
Meredith Bearov
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The GCV Conservation and Beautification Committee has joined fellow Virginia Conservation Network members in signing thank you letters to Governor McAuliffe, Senator Chase and Senator Surovell for their leadership on the Coal Ash Bill SB1398 which will help ensure the proper assessment of Virginia’s coal ash storage facilities prior to their closure. GCV supported this bill.
Click Here
to read the letter to Governor McAuliffe
A new Executive Order implementing "America First Offshore Energy Strategy" includes
oil and gas development on the outer continental shelf of the Atlantic. Please contact your Senators and Congressman to oppose offshore drilling and seismic testing in the Atlantic.
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2017 Restoration Research Fellows
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The GCV Committee is pleased to announce the selection of our 2017 GCV Research Fellows.
Kathleen Conti, 2017 Rudy J. Favretti Fellow at Berkeley Plantation. PhD in Architecture, University of Texas at Austin expected May 2020; MS in Historic Preservation, University of Texas at Austin, May 2017; Thesis: Increasing Sustainability in Cultural Landscapes with Ecosystem Services; PhD in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ABD 2015; Comprehensive Exams: Soviet Union, 20th Century Europe, Central Asia, Imperial Russia; MA in Russian and East European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. May 2013; Thesis: Decay on Display: The Funeral Trains of Abraham Lincoln and Tsar Alexander III; BA in History, Randolph College, VA. May 2011, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude; Honors Thesis: The National D-Day Memorial and American Memory.
Krista Reimer, 2017 William D. Rieley Fellow at Westover Plantation.
Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania School of Design 2015; MS in Mathematics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2015; Career Discovery, Landscape Architecture; Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, 2014, six week, studio based introduction to landscape architecture; BS Honors in Mathematics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 2013, Graduated with first class honors; Winter 2010 exchange semester at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Hosted by
The Garden Club of the
Middle Peninsula
Thursday, June 22
Essex High School
Tappahannock
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