May 2018 Volume 1, Issue 8
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Alcatraz Garden with Golden Gate view
Nancy Howard Photographer, GCA Annual Meeting in April
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IN THIS ISSUE
May Meeting Details
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
RSVP by May 15 to Airlie Lennon click
HERE
GCA National Affairs & Legislative Conference Recap
Our New AGC Logo/Seal
2018 Program Schedule
A final thought
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Musings from our President
AGC Members One and All,
Our 90th season is blooming! Thank you so much for giving thought to and creating a page or two for our
anniversary scrapbook
. I am so grateful to each and everyone of you for taking the time to reflect and participate, loving the pages thus far, and hope you are having full measure of pleasure at the same time. See you on May 22nd!
Corn and I have just returned from the 2018 GCA Annual Meeting in San Francisco,
How the West is One!
What happened there? Please go the
GCA website
and click on the annual meeting. To read the President's remarks at the meeting,
click here
. Meanwhile, here’s a quick take.
Meetings and associated opportunities started with a pre-trip to Napa and ended with a post-trip to see the redwoods. Both Corn and I enjoyed a full day conservation tour around the bay, and Nancy visited the gardens at Alcatraz. Tours, luncheons, business and zone meetings, lectures, Q & A, cocktails, dinners/awards, two memorable speakers, flower show in the hotel’s atrium lobby....that's to mention a thing or two! Opportunities to converse in earnest within and in between and clown around with our peers from all over the country started in the airport and continued non-stop until the last minute. Exciting and indescribable. We will share meeting schedules and hand-outs at our May gathering
to give you all a better idea. H
ave you RSVP’d?
Cheers,
Nancy
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MAY MEETING DETAILS -RSVP!
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Tuesday May 22
RSVP: Airlie Lennon click
HERE
by Tuesday, May 15.
Please respond to Airlie and let her know whether or not you will attend the May meeting.
Floral Design Presented by Grace Crary and Renee Lewis
Grace and Renee will do a little teaching of Floral Design and members will do a little hands-on work on their own designs. Our leaders will provide critiques to help with understanding the process. And we will be having fun while we learn!
We are suggesting that all members, wishing to participate, bring the following:
1. A low container, with wet oasis already in it.
2. Tools you will be needing to cut materials, clippers, scissors, etc.
3. Small box to lift up your design while you work.
4. An apron to protect your clothes.
5. Three bunches of flowers from an inexpensive place like the Price Chopper. Try to get three different shapes, sizes and colors.
6. A container to transport your masterpiece home.
Renee and Grace will be bringing the greens and branches to complete your arrangement. We will also have some handouts and materials on display.
Time: 9:30 am Social. Coffee and sweets provided by Hospitality
10:00 am Business Meeting and Program
12:30 pm Lunch
Place: Whallonsburg Grange
Lunch: Bring your own sandwich. Salads, dessert and beverages will be provided by Hospitality.
Tuesday, May 15.
Please respond to Airlie and let her know whether or not you will attend the May meeting.
Directions to the Grange:
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.
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Lyn Flynn and Katherine Houseal
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National Affairs and Legislation Conference: February 26 - March 1, 2018
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Lyn Flynn
and
Katherine Houseal
attended the Annual Garden Club of America’s National Affairs and Legislative Conference in Washington, DC for four days in February. This year 300 NAL delegates representing 155 of GCA ‘s 200 clubs gathered with the goal of not only furthering our education on issues supporting and safeguarding our environment but to also bring the GCA’s message to our club and elected representatives. This year Hallie Morrison, The Garden Club of Jackson, MS, served as the NAL Committee Chairman and SaSa Panarese, Milton Garden Club, MA, as Conservation Committee Chair.
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Legislative Priorities:
Native Plant and Botany Legislation
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Climate Change
National Parks and Public Lands
Infrastructure
For more detailed information about the NALS meeting, click here.
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We have simplified our beautiful logo with the advice and input of many club members. A special thank you to Happy Marsh for offering the historical background to help us maintain the focus on our Club in its 90th year. There are photos below of the seal over the years with a narrative provided by Happy.
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The original ECAGC Logo or Seal - A bunchberry in the center surrounded by the words:
“Non Mihi Soli Laboravi” Aug. 16, 1928 Garden Club of Essex County N.Y. Adirondack Mts.”
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It was thought the logo translated “Not for myself alone do I work” but Francisca Warren Paine, whose father was a Latin scholar, wrote that the correct spelling is laboravi not laborari (a “v” instead of an “r”) and thus the translation is “Not for myself alone have I labored.” Designed by Mrs. Marquand, one of our first Honorary members, and an international expert on what you can learn from the flowers in paintings. The mother of Mrs. Hochschild was consulted by museums from the Louvre to the Metropolitan and lived in Keene Valley in the summer.
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Eleanor Cross Marquand, wife of Professor Allan Marquand of Princeton, was an honorary member of ECAGC. Marquand was an authority on flowers and trees in paintings and manuscripts; she attended the Art Students League and was an artist in addition to an avid gardener. Her daughter, Mary Marquand Hochschild, designed the first garden at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain. She is supposed to have designed the bunchberry logo for ECAGC, although Keela Rogers says it was Mrs. Henry Rogers who did so, and they have a wooden mock up at the Voekler camp.
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The Cast Iron Plaque was awarded to gas stations with attractive plantings. Keela Rogers has the wooden mock up used to cast the iron gas station plaque. Designed by Eleanor Cross Marquand, one of our first honorary members, and an international expert on the representation and symbolism of flowers and trees in art, particularly of floral emblems in the early Christian church. In recognition of this work, she received an honorary Master of Arts Degree from Princeton University in 1948, only the 4th woman in the history of the university to receive this honor.
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2018 AGC Program Schedule
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The Program Committee has updated the calendar for 2018. Please add the dates and times to your personal calendar. We are excited about our topics and look forward to seeing you at the meetings. Additional details will be included in future newsletters.
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Tuesday, May 22*
*Note: 4th Tuesday
Floral Design at Whallonsburg Grange in Essex
Grace Crary and Renee Lewis
Brown bag lunch
9:30 AM
Tuesday, June 19
Pruning at East Branch Organics in Keene
Horticulture Committee with Heather Coffin
Rain or shine! Brown bag lunch
9:30 AM
Tuesday, July 17
90
th
Anniversary Open Meeting at the Crowne Plaza, Grandview Room in Lake Placid
Community Invited Conservation Meeting
1:30 PM - Conservation Meeting
2:00 PM - Curt Stager – “Gardens, Weather or Not”
3:00 PM - Refreshments.
Details to follow
Tuesday, July 31
Archives Workshop at the Adirondack History Museum in Elizabethtown
Tuesday, August 7
Please add this date to your calendar!
Visiting Garden Committee has scheduled a visit to
The Kent-Delord House Museum and Garden in Plattsburgh
Details to follow
Tuesday, August 14*
*Note: 2
nd
Tuesday
90
th
Anniversary
continued
American Native Plants at the Ausable Club in St. Hubert’s
Frisky Hickey – Botanical Drawings
Lois Barrett - RSVP
Lunch catered
9:30 AM
Tuesday, September 11*
*Note: 2
nd
Tuesday
Annual Meeting at Lyn Flynn’s Home in Westport
Garden Tour and Lunch
Brown Bag
9:30 AM
Sunday, September 30
Pot Luck at Liz Jaques’ Home in Keene
Liz Jaques - RSVP
11:30 AM
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Self-awareness, intelligence,
and the search for meaning
that have -erroneously- been
ascribed as belonging only to
human beings, are in fact general
conditions for every life-form --
and particularly for plants.
Stephen Harrod Buhner
The Intelligence of Plants
Plants are intelligent; perform complex mathematical computations; plan for the future; and even interpret meaning. Stephen Harrod Buhner came to this conclusion by opening his understanding up to the many cultures and individuals who have listened to plants in order to learn what they have to say. He learned from the direct stories of indigenous people whose first person accounts all said they learned the medicinal qualities of the plants they used from the plants themselves, or that it came in a vision, or that Creator told them the uses. It was clear then that, in a way that reductive science did not understand, or even acknowledge, there was another way of gathering information about the world, and that in fact, plants were highly intelligent and able to communicate with people. Dive into this mind-opening interview from Moon Magazine to discover the "non-linear intelligence of nature."
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AGC eNews
eNews is a monthly publication produced by
the Communications/Website Committee
of the Adirondack Garden Club
Editor, Jennifer Lagor
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