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The 365-Day Garden: Lecture by Margaret Roach

Saturday, August 20, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 9:45 AM (ET)

Copake Falls, NY

The 365-Day Garden: Lecture by Margaret Roach

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
8:30 AM lecture, plus 10 AM garden visit Ended $20.00 $2.09
8:30 AM lecture, plus 11 AM garden visit Ended $20.00 $2.09
8:30 AM lecture, plus noon garden visit Ended $20.00 $2.09
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Event Details

8:30 AM

Saturday Aug. 20

Church of St. John in the Wilderness,

Copake Falls, NY, 12517

Join Copake Falls resident, garden blogger and author Margaret Roach for an inspiring morning garden lecture to benefit the Friends of Taconic State Park. All proceeds, plus all book-sale profits at the signing afterward, will help to fund Friends' projects.

 

NOTE: EACH TICKET INCLUDES a $5 COUPON TOWARD THE PRICE OF AN AUTOGRAPHED, PERSONALIZED COPY OF MARGARET'S NEW BOOK, "And I Shall Have Some Peace There," and can be redeemed at the lecture or at Margaret's garden later. Save your ticket to get the $5 credit!

 

IMPORTANT: There is ONE lecture session--8:30 AM--but THREE ticket options, since the lecture ticket includes entry to the garden afterward. We regret that we cannot accommodate everyone to the garden at once!

The Lecture: "A Garden for 365 Days."

(Yes, it's possible even in our cold climate!)

Expressions commonly heard each September like “the season’s almost over” don’t sit well with Margaret Roach. She has worked for more than 20 years to make her garden in the Hudson Valley–Berkshires area a visual treat every day of the year. In a luscious slide lecture, meet the plants and the philosophy that make it happen, delivered with a dose of “horticultural how-to and woo-woo.” 

Margaret, after 15 years at Martha Stewart Living and a decade each at Newsday and The New York Times, now writes the nationally acclaimed blog A Way to Garden (dot com) and is author of the corporate-dropout memoir, “And I Shall Have Some Peace There,” about walking away from “success” for a quieter life lived closer to nature.


This event is part of the day-long celebration of Copake Falls Day; check here for all listings.






 

When & Where



Church of St. John in the Wilderness
261 Route 344
Copake Falls, NY 12517

Saturday, August 20, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 9:45 AM (ET)


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Friends of Taconic State Park



This is our second annual garden lecture during the larger event called Copake Falls Day. The nearby garden of Margaret Roach will also be open from 10-4 as part of the overall festivities.

Friends of Taconic State Park was  
established in the fall of 2008 when park supporters began meeting to discuss how they could help promote historical, educational and recreational activities within the park. In March 2010 the Board of Directors, with the blessings of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, unanimously adopted a 20 year plan to restore the Copake Iron Works historic site, located within the park, to the condition of its operating hey‐day in the mid‐1800s.  

The site is considered by experts to be a unique and important example of 19th century industrial history, the preservation of which should be a top priority.

The first phase of this ambitious but eminently achievable plan is to erect an open air roof structure over the Copake Iron Works furnace.  Construction of the structure began this fall and is scheduled to be completed by year-end.  Visitors to the area are urged to check on our progress!