Lecture: Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places that Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

By AMY SHERWOOD (Open Post)

The Friends of the Irvington Library announce lecture with award-winning author and gardener Marta McDowell to discusses her book, Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places that Inspired the Classic Children’s Tales.

McDowell teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, authored Emily Dickinson’s Gardens and is finishing a new book on the history of American gardening as seen through the White House grounds due out April 2016.

Annual Meeting and Lecture at Irvington Public Library, 12 South Astor Street, Saturday, May 30, 5:30 p.m., free. Book signing, refreshments. friendsoftheirvingtonlibrary.org

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