The Relationship Between Women and the Land 1876 - 1996

From suburban home lot to the country seat, women have designed, cultivated and reshaped the American scene, moving from the "harbinger of a gentle heart" to women of power and influence.

The Historical Society of Old Newbury and the Trustees of the Newburyport Waterfront invite you to a gardening symposium, focusing on the changing role of women as garden designers and clients over the past century.

Schedule

8:30

Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:15

Welcome - Dr. John Peterson, Executive Director Massachusetts Horiculture Society

9:30

Nancy Fleming

Marian Cruger Coffin: Landscape Architect for the Fricks, Pells, & du Ponts

10:30

Refreshments

11:15

Lucinda Brockway

Interrelationships: Landscape Designers & Their Clients,1876-1996

12:30

Catered Lunch at the Phoenix Room

2:00

Julie Moir Messervy

Garden-Making: Bringing Out the Inward Garden

3:30

Afternoon sherry

More Information:

Symposium Registration Form
Transportation to The Firehouse Center
Weekend and Future Entertainment Options

For information about Newburyport's fine inns or restaurants, please contact the Chamber of Commerce at 508 462-6680.

Proceeds from the gardening symposium will support public and historic plantings in Newburyport:

• The Historical Society will establish a historic garden program, focusing on maintenance and management, which can become a model for other small historical society sites throughout New England. It will also develop a comprehensive restoration plan for the Cushing House garden and begin its implementation.
• Newburyport's Waterfront Trust will improve and augment the plantings adjacent to the downtown Boardwalk and Market Landing Park.

(Photographs are of roses in the Cushing House Garden.)

Other Landscape and Garden Related Web Sites:

• Welcome to GardenNet - A Center for Garden Enthusiasts
• The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
• Index - Landscape Architecture Virtual Library - From the University of Toronto
• Gardening and Landscaping - Books That Work, Inc. Page
• American Horticultural Society
• The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Welcome to the Virtual Garden
• Prairie Net's Garden Gate - links to useful and interesting sites.

Other Newburyport Web Sites:

• Newburyport, Massachusetts - Chamber of Commerce page
• Organs of the Merrimack Valley - Describes pipe organs in Newburyport churches
• Interactive Tide Chart - Get a tide chart for Newburyport on March 30 (or any other day)