As long as we’ve lived in Salem the darned hospital has been destroying, burning, and now logging land for more buildings, more parking. The original hospital was in a residential neighborhood, near the university…a neighborhood we aspired to live in BUT, by the time we could buy a house, the neighborhood was gone for parking […]
Tag: Gaiety Hollow
Person-Shaped Nature…
Lots is going on in the person-manipulated natural world today in Salem. First a visit to Gaiety Hollow, the Lord and Schryver home garden, where a crew of volunteers were putting down newspaper mulch in an effort to tame the hideous aegopodium…a nasty weed. on to Martha’s where Big Trees Today (I love them, they […]
…And Speaking of Gardens…
A couple of weeks ago I spent three days in the Gaiety Hollow garden, the home garden of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. The L&S Conservancy asked me to do some drawings for their upcoming fund raising campaign…a campaign to repay the generous donor who bought the house and garden, and is allowing […]
