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X-WR-CALDESC:“Founding Gardeners” offers a fascinating look at the Revoluti
onary generation from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives a
s gardeners\, plantsmen\, and farmers. For the Founding Fathers\, gardenin
g\, agriculture\, and botany were elemental passions\, as deeply ingrained
in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were c
reating. \n\nAuthor Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of
the Revolutionary generation. She describes how\, even as British ships ga
thered off Staten Island\, George Washington wrote his estate manager abou
t the garden at Mount Vernon\; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thoma
s Jefferson's and John Adams's faith in their fledgling nation\; how a tri
p to the great botanist John Bartram’s garden helped the delegates of the
Constitutional Congress to break their deadlock\; and why James Madison is
the forgotten father of American environmentalism. Taken together\, these
and other stories are a revelation of a guiding but previously overlooked
ideology of the American Revolution. “Founding Gardeners” adds depth and
nuance to our understanding of the American experiment\, and paints a port
rait of the Founding Fathers as they've never been seen before.\n\nAndrea
Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a d
esign historian at Royal College of Art and is the author of The Brothe
r Gardeners (long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 and winner
of the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award) and the co-author (
with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300
Years of English History. She has written for The Sunday Times
\, the Wall Street Journal\, The Financial Times\, The Ga
rden\, and regularly reviews for several newspapers\, including the Times Literary Supplement\, the Guardian\, and the New York
Times. She lives in London.\n\n*Registration is closed for this pr
ogram. Call 410.634.2847\, ext. 0 to be added to a waiting list.\n
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DESCRIPTION:“Founding Gardeners” offers a fascinating look at the Revolutio
nary generation from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as
gardeners\, plantsmen\, and farmers. For the Founding Fathers\, gardening
\, agriculture\, and botany were elemental passions\, as deeply ingrained
in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were cr
eating. \n\nAuthor Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of t
he Revolutionary generation. She describes how\, even as British ships gat
hered off Staten Island\, George Washington wrote his estate manager about
the garden at Mount Vernon\; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas
Jefferson's and John Adams's faith in their fledgling nation\; how a trip
to the great botanist John Bartram’s garden helped the delegates of the C
onstitutional Congress to break their deadlock\; and why James Madison is
the forgotten father of American environmentalism. Taken together\, these
and other stories are a revelation of a guiding but previously overlooked
ideology of the American Revolution. “Founding Gardeners” adds depth and n
uance to our understanding of the American experiment\, and paints a portr
ait of the Founding Fathers as they've never been seen before.\n\nAndrea W
ulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a de
sign historian at Royal College of Art and is the author of The Brother
Gardeners (long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2008 and winner o
f the American Horticultural Society 2010 Book Award) and the co-author (w
ith Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300
Years of English History. She has written for The Sunday Times\
, the Wall Street Journal\, The Financial Times\, The Gar
den\, and regularly reviews for several newspapers\, including the
Times Literary Supplement\, the Guardian\, and the New York
Times. She lives in London.\n\n*Registration is closed for this pro
gram. Call 410.634.2847\, ext. 0 to be added to a waiting list.\n
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SUMMARY:Founding Gardeners–Lunch and Lecture
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