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Talk and Tea with Author Thomas Mickey
During this presentation, Author Thomas Mickey will explore his book America's Romance with the English Garden.
Mickey will explain how nineteenth-century seed and nursery catalogs influenced American gardening, how through their words and illustrations we became seduced by the English garden model.
A recipient of a grant from the Smithsonian’s Division of Horticulture Services, Thomas Mickey spent a year in Washington exploring the archives at the American History Museum, the Natural History Museum, and at the Department of Agriculture. Originally the focus of his work was to be the study of the connection between marketing and the garden in nineteenth-century America. He began his study by looking at seed and nursery catalogs from that time, and he never left them. Mickey loved the images and the language the writers used and the images, but he especially liked what the catalogs taught people about gardening.
Books will be available for sale and signing. Lecture begins promptly at 1 pm. Tea will follow the lecture.
Price: Member $25, Non-member $30
