Summer Reading at the Library!

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Join us for our annual summer reading program for children, teens and adults.  This year's theme is Color Your World.

Children & Teens:  Starting on June 2nd, visit the Children's Room to register and receive a reading log.

Adults:  Starting on June 2nd, sign up in person at the Reference Desk to receive a packet.  Click here for the Nonfiction and Fiction reading lists relating to the theme.

 

 

 

Magical Gardens of Bunny Mellon

Program Type:

Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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Throughout her long and storied life, Rachel “Bunny” Mellon’s greatest passion was garden design. She and her husband, Paul Mellon, one of the wealthiest men in America, maintained homes in New York, Cape Cod, Nantucket, Antigua, and Upperville, Virginia, and she designed the gardens at all of them.

She also designed gardens for some of her dearest friends, including the Rose Garden and the East Garden at the White House, at the request of President Kennedy, and the gardens at both the Paris home and the château of couturier Hubert de Givenchy.

Presented by:  Jennifer Yates is an experienced and award-winning landscape designer with a gift for color and structure to create harmonious landscape designs.  Her training began with a Bachelor's in Interior Architecture with training in Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, followed by the study of Art History at Brown University.  She also studied horticulture and landscape architecture at the New York Botanical Gardens, and completed certification from the Northeast Organic Farming Association.  Jennifer recently moved to Sherman.