Event Calendar

9:00 a.m. Lehner Family Auditorium Akron Art Museum Mr. Mark Masuoka
9:15 a.m. Introductions to the Day and Special Guests Kathie VanDevere
9:30 a.m. Marta McDowell: All the President’s Gardens Research Methods for Quick Changes at the Whitehouse
10:15 a.m. Sherry Hall: Harding Museum Restoration of Mrs. Harding’s “Rose Garden”
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Marianne Salas: "Resources in Garden History and Education Collections at the Smithsonian Gardens, Smithsonian Institution
11:30 a.m. Muddy Boots: What’s What and What’s Where: Everyday Documentation
11:45 a.m. Tour Garden with Guide Visit displays
12:30 p.m. Box Lunches in the Garden or Atrium
Discussion Groups: Staff & Volunteers; Heritage Plants; Educational Programing; Research and Documentation; Mutual Marketing; Funding
2:30 p.m. Arrive Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens: Ellen Biddle Shipman Garden, Cutting Gardens, Birch Allee to Tea House with Replication & Restoration: Sean Joyce
4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks Kathie VanDevere
6:00 p.m. Arrive Hale Farm & Village Welcome Jason Klein
Cocktails & Tour of Village with Dinner @ Gatehouse Jason Klein

Thursday, June 22, 2017
9:00 a.m. Choose:Partners for Plants: Riparian Reforestation Project, Cuyahoga Valley National Park,OR CVNPA Trapp Family Farm Conservancy Farm Rte 303 Peninsula, Leianne Heppner and Inga Walker
10:00 a.m. Arrive Hudson, meet at the Town Hall on the Village Green.
Hudson Heritage Association, Tour the Fire History Museum; meet Trolley, tour Village Trolley with Mr. Tom Vince, Western Reserve Academy Archivist.
12:00 p.m. Box Lunch Village Square Informal Self Select Discussions Make new friends, but keep the old; one is sliver the other gold. 1:00 p.m. Western Reserve Academy Walking Tour and Lecture Mr. Tom Vince, Western Reserve Academy Archivist.
3:00 p.m. Closing Remarks Kathie VanDevere