PARIS — The third lecture in the 2019 McLaughlin Garden series will take place on Wednesday, March 6, when Donna Anderson speaks on “Pleasure Gardens for Kings, Queens and Commoners: 500 Years of Historic Gardens at Hampton Court.”
More than a travelogue, the lecture will explore the story of how the palace gardens were developed for and by Henry VIII and changed as time moved forward, depending on the taste — and budget — of his successors. See gardens that were “lost” and are now recreated through clever detective work using historical documents and garden archaeology. The talk will finish with the work that Historic Royal Palaces is doing to make Hampton Court’s gardens a beautiful and exciting place to visit.
Anderson is executive director of the McLaughlin Garden & Homestead and formerly worked in New York State at the Yager Museum of Art & Culture at Hartwick College and the Exhibition Alliance, a museum service organization. She attended Douglass College and Rutgers University, receiving a BA in history and art history, and she has a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto.
The illustrated lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in the historic McLaughlin home at 97 Main St., where Bernard McLaughlin lived with his wife. Tea will be served at 3:30. The lecture is free and open to the public; a suggested donation of $5 is suggested in support of the garden and homestead.
This is the third of six lectures held on Wednesday afternoons.
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