Mid-November Newsletter

Mid-November 2018 Volume 2, Issue 2

IN THIS ISSUE

REMINDER:

Annual Wreath Making Workshop

Tuesday, November 27

Committee Membership

Review the updated committees

Did you know....?

Two members are featured in Northern Home Garden & Leisure Magazine

GCA Website

Visit for up-to-date information

Thoughts from Peru

We are blanketed with early snow, and I can’t believe I got my last bulbs in the ground just a few days beforehand! I buy them by the hundred and plant them in “dinner plates” of seven or eight - somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 bulbs each year. I hope everyone else dug a few holes as well.

Corn

Corn's Spring Garden: THEN ...

AND NOW

REMINDER: Annual Wreath Workshop

Wreath Workshop

Make Two, Give One Away

Tuesday, November 27

9:30 am

Whallonsburg Grange

Essex

Wreaths needed to be ordered by November 6. Contact Delia Thompson for more details, if interested.

Committee Membership 2018-19

An integral part of success for our club is the committee work that is done by the members. Below is an updated list of the committees, their chairs, and members. If you did not have a chance to volunteer for your committee of choice, or would like to take a leadership role and chair one of the open positions, please contact Corn Forrence . We need your help - many hands make light work! Also, if you see anything that needs correction, let us know.

ARCHIVES

Mission: Maintain the historical records and documents of AGC and to select donated and new books for and oversee the Club's library.

Chair: Barbara Hail

Members: Liz Jaques, Nancy Howard, Cindy Palen, Yun Wang (Arbour)

HONORARY HISTORIAN: Happy Marsh

AWARDS

Mission: Select the recipients for Club, Zone, and National GCA awards.

Chair: Need a chair for the Awards Committee

Members: Cornelia Forrence, Liz Jaques

COMMUNICATIONS/WEBSITE

Mission: Increase communication within membership through a regular electronic newsletter and to keep the website up-to-date both on the public and membership side with relevant information.

Co-Chairs: Jennifer Lagor and Lynne Perry

Members: Elizabeth Derr, Liz Jaques

WEBSITE: Jennifer Lagor

CONSERVATION

Mission: Continue our efforts in conjunction with APPIP to inform and educate our members and gardening public about Invasive Plants in the Adirondacks. This committee is a year-round working committee taking advantage of technology with remote communications.

Co-Chairs: Katherine Houseal and Carol Blakeslee-Collin

Members: Lyn Flynn, Cornelia Forrence, Meredith Hanna, Nancy Lindquist, Lynne Perry, Barbara Plumadore, Candace Youngman

FLORAL DESIGN

Mission: Provide opportunities for sharing and learning about floral design in a congenial and supportive atmosphere.

Co-Chairs: Renee Lewis and Grace Crary

Members: Lois Barrett, Meredith Hanna, Cindy Palen, Barbara Plumadore, Delia Thompson

GARDEN HISTORY AND DESIGN

Mission: To educate our Membership and the Public in Historical and Contemporary landscape and garden design, and to continue to add to the Garden Club of America's Collection at the Archives of American Gardens at the Smithsonian Institution under the required guidelines provided by GCA.

Chair:

Members: Jennifer Lagor

HORTICULTURE

Mission: Create enthusiasm for gardening and to increase members' knowledge of horticulture.

Chair: Airlie Lennon

Members: Jeanne Warner, Airline Lennon, Carol Blakeslee-Collin, Meredith Hanna

HOSPITALITY

Mission: Responsible for planning hospitality for monthly club meetings.

Chair: Lois Barrett

Members: Nancy Lindquist, Airlie Lennon, Elizabeth Derr

MEMBERSHIP

Mission: Review the membership applications annually and recommend any changes to the Executive Committee. Plan and organize the new member welcome and orientation.

Objective: Seek new members who are interested in being actively involved in the AGC and growing our mission.

Chair: Patty Paine

Members: Airlie Lennon, Linda Rockefeller, Delia Thompson

PHOTOGRAPHY

Mission: To stimulate interest and to educate all members in the art and science of photography; to enhance the quality of photography division in flower shows; and to assist in aspects of staging or entering photography in completion.

Chair: Jennifer Lagor

Members: Nan Paternotte, Lynne Perry, Yun Wang (Arbour)

PROGRAM

Mission: Develop the annual monthly program schedule; identify locations for all meetings.

Co-Chairs: Lynne Perry and Liz Jaques,

Members: Carol Blakeslee-Collin, Corn Forrence, Cory Gillilland, Meredith Hanna, Nancy Howard, Airlie Lennon

PUBLICITY

Mission: Send appropriate, "likely to be published" releases from the AGC, news releases with a photo, to the national GCA publication, The Bulletin. A goal is to have an AGC release published annually, and if possible, more than once per year; provide publicity to the area media of our public events and our members accomplishments.

Chair: Airlie Lennon

Members: Jennifer Lagor

SCHOLARSHIPS

Mission: Select the recipients for Club, Zone, and National GCA scholarships.

Chair: Corn Forrence

Members: Jeanne Warner

VISITING GARDENS

Mission: Acquaint members with interesting or distinctive private and/or public gardens in our area or possibly farther afield.

Co-Chairs: Katherine Houseal and Audrey Desjardins,

Members: Elizabeth Derr, Gracy Crary, Cindy Palen, Jeanne Warner

WAYS AND MEANS

Mission: Develop, initiate, and implement all fundraising activities.

Objective: Committee meetings will be held at least once a year, ideally before May meeting to determine yearly fundraising activities.

Co-Chairs: Delia Thompson and Elizabeth Derr

Members: Cory Gillilland , Liz Miskovsky

Did you know...?

Two AGC members are featured in Northern Home Garden & Leisure Magazine

October 2018

Carol Blakeslee Collin's home appears on the front cover of the October issue which contains a feature article and beautiful photographs of her house. The article is titled "Richard Keese Would Be Pleased."

"This Garden Has Hart" features Ruth Hart's garden.

To read the full story link to Northern Home Garden & Leisure Magazine

Featured Recipe

Something new!

Each newsletter will feature a favorite recipe from one of our members. This idea stemmed from an Executive Meeting lunch shared together last month. If you have a recipe that you would like to share, please send it here.

Here is a very quick and easy dessert shared by Jennifer Lagor.

Flourless Chocolate Cake

INGREDIENTS

4 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate chips

1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter

3/4 cup sugar

3 large eggs

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus additional for sprinkling.

PREPARATION

Preheat oven to 375°F and butter an 8-inch round baking pan. Line bottom with a round of wax paper and butter paper.

Chop chocolate into small pieces. In a double boiler or metal bowl set over a saucepan of barely simmering water melt chocolate with butter, stirring, until smooth. Remove top of double boiler or bowl from heat and whisk sugar into chocolate mixture. Add eggs and whisk well. Sift 1/2 cup cocoa powder over chocolate mixture and whisk until just combined. Pour batter into pan and bake in middle of oven 25 minutes, or until top has formed a thin crust. Cool cake in pan on a rack 5 minutes and invert onto a serving plate.

Dust cake with additional cocoa powder and serve with sorbet if desired. (Cake keeps, after being cooled completely, in an airtight container, 1 week.)

GCA Website

Don't forget to visit the Garden Club of America website for interesting articles and in depth information about what is happening across all areas on the national level.

AGC Program Schedule

Wreath Workshop

November 27 at 9:30 am

Whallonsburg Grange, Essex

RSVP by November 6 to Delia Thompson

Stay tuned for our complete 2019 Program Schedule in the December Newsletter

AGC eNews

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produced by the Communications/Website Committee

of the Adirondack Garden Club

PO Box 72

Keene, NY 12942

Editor, Jennifer Lagor

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