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2d Annual Garden Lecture, With Page Dickey

Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM (ET)

Copake, NY

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Lecture and wine and hors' d. reception Ended $65.00 $0.00
Lecture, reception, hardcover book Ended $80.00 $0.00
Extra "Embroidered Ground" hardcover books Ended $20.00 $2.09
Extra "Embroidered Ground" paperback books Ended $15.00 $1.82
Lecture only (no reception or book) Ended $25.00 $2.37
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Event Details

 

Friends of Taconic State Park

 

Invites You to Meet 

Page Dickey*

 

 Page Dickey's book cover

Saturday, March 17, 3:30 pm

Copake Grange

Copake, New York

 Garden Slide Presentation

Book Signing

Wine and Hors d'oeuvres Reception

Lecture & Reception:  $65.00

Lecture Only: $25.00

Event and Book:   $80.00

Extra Books:  $20.00

 

 To Benefit the Friends of Taconic State Park

 

 

 

           *Page Dickey is one of America's best known and loved gardeners and garden authors. In her most recent book, Embroidered Ground, the inspiration for the Friends' Second Annual Garden Lecture welcoming the start of spring, she writes about the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and pleasures of her thirty-year-long process of making a garden, about gardening with a husband, about the changes that come to garden and gardener with aging. In a luscious slide talk, she shares her personal views on what contributes to a garden’s success—structure, fragrance, atmosphere, patterns and textures, her love of multiseasonal shrubs.

Previous books include Gardens in the Spirit of Place; the award-winning Breaking Ground: Portraits of Ten Garden Designers; Duck Hill Journal: A Year in a Country Garden; Dogs in Their Gardens and Cats in Their Gardens. A contributor to numerous magazines over many years, she lectures across the country and is one of the founders of the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program.

Page Dickey lives and gardens with her husband in the company of assorted dogs, cats, and chickens in North Salem, New York.

 

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When & Where



Copake Grange
628 Empire Road
Copake, NY 12516

Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM (ET)


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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!