2013
We had help at the greeting tent...and at both spring and fall clean-up.
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This year we held an amazing week-long sculpture camp
Eight intrepid enrollees, a talented instructor (Meghan Samson), second from the right, and a talented welder (Joel Bowman) on the left. (Jill is fourth from the left.)
Everybody worked hard...
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And made...well...art!
And we held other Educational Classes...
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Like this Flower Arranging Class with Ellen Karelitz:
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and the UNH landscape design course visited:
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Our Open House Days were busy!
We are developing a docent program. Very Exciting. You too can be a docent...See the Volunteering Page. Here is this year's group:
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We have a new plant geek, Hobson Jandebeur:
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We had amazing music...
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The Leftist Marching Band:
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Not once, but three times:
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...and Liz, the terrific trombonist:
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And people seemed to enjoy it:
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and, near the Tea House, a guitar group with Randy Newman:
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Lots of Groups Visited
And we had our first international visit, by the International Dendrology Society!
There were not only Garden Clubs,
...like the Opechee Garden Club,
...like the Opechee Garden Club,
but people just out for an experience,...like this "Always an Adventure " Group:
...and Kids, too
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From the very young:
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Oyster River Parents and Preschoolers
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...through the Oyster River Middle School:
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to the annual visit by those creative souls of Francine Kontos's sculpture class at Dover High School.
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We even were a site for a professional model shoot!
by Nylora photography [she also this image also taken here at the pond]:
We not only had different Tai Chi Classes,
Here is one with Lin Lin Choy:
and one with fans:
...but WMUR filmed a session on Tai Chi here for NH Chronicles
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First, Master Chen visited, and gave a lesson:
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...and then he, and is class were filmed by Cindy Jupp-Jones for a segment on WMUR's NH Chronicles. Watch it here.
And Yoga!
There were classes: Symmetry Yoga and others...
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...they also had fun:
Bedrock Gardens is a Good Place to Get Married...
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At the Spiral Gardens:
Christina and Jake
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A happy couple on the Allée:
Amy and Heather
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We were busy
Repairing leaks:
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Transplanting trees:
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Placing Art:
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and, most fun of all, making art! Here is the Gothic Archway before and after:
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Made a Sacrificial Table too (not done yet...we call those WIPs [Works In Progress]).
We took some eye-opening pix
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as did Kathy Dunham:
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and Lena McClellan for her Masters in Photography:
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How other people see things can open your own eyes...
Jill Made Sculpture
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Some are small, like her series of Metal Men, but they fit on top of a long row of posts, an architectural element that we call "The Wave."
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Some are in trees, like this bird of prey, "Quetzalcoatl", next to a bag of bones in The Dark Woods.
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Her love of turtles continues:
"He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother."
Other Events
First Grandchild:
Oren Fransway Browne
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so we've been doing this:
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And life goes on...