[MassHistPres] FW: Garden Week at the Emily Dickinson Museum

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Subject: Press Announcement -- Garden Week at the Emily Dickinson Museum

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PRESS RELEASE

May 29, 2012

For Immediate Release
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Jane Wald 

413-542-2154

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Emily Dickinson Museum

Garden Week at the Emily Dickinson Museum, June 11 - 14 

AMHERST, MA.  -- The Emily Dickinson Museum is pleased to announce its
second annual Garden Week. This year's activities take place June 11-14 and
include opportunities to garden, to reflect, and to celebrate writers who
are influenced by place.  

Each morning from Monday through Thursday, volunteers are invited to work in
the Dickinson family gardens under the direction of Marta McDowell,
landscape historian and author of Emily Dickinson's Gardens. This year's
efforts will focus on the garden beds near The Evergreens, home of Emily
Dickinson's brother Austin.  

Museum members will be treated to a special luncheon with McDowell on
Tuesday, June 12, at 12:30 pm. McDowell will share research on her latest
subject, the gardens of Beatrix Potter. Jane Wald, the Museum's executive
director, will discuss recent projects at the Museum.  

The week will culminate on Thursday, June 14, with a Garden Party in
celebration of writers, their homes, and their legacies. The party, which
runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., will include tours of the newly landscaped
gardens, an open house at the Homestead, and remarks by A.N. Devers, founder
and editor of writershouses.com, an online publication dedicated to
exploring writers' spaces and the art of literary pilgrimage. A highlight of
the evening is a reading by Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma
Hardy. Ms. Livesey's latest novel is a re-telling of Jane Eyre, one of Emily
Dickinson's favorite books. Party-goers can also examine the Little White
House project, on view at the Museum through June 30.

The Garden Party is co-sponsored by The Common literary magazine, a biannual
publication based in Amherst. The Common publishes fiction, essays, poetry,
documentary vignettes, and images that embody particular times and places
both real and imagined.

For more information or to volunteer in the garden, please contact Mardi
Krantz at 413-542-5084 or mkrantz at emilydickinsonmuseum.org. RSVPs for the
luncheon are required by June 8; RSVPs for the party, though not required,
are encouraged by June 13.  

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

About the Museum  

The Emily Dickinson Museum's summer hours, June through August, are 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. The Emily Dickinson Museum, comprising
the Dickinson Homestead and The Evergreens, is devoted to the story and
legacy of poet Emily Dickinson and her family. Both properties are owned by
the Trustees of Amherst College. The Museum is overseen by a separate Board
of Governors charged with raising its operating and capital funds. The
Museum is a member of Museums10, a consortium of ten Pioneer Valley museums
forged to celebrate the collections and promote the programs of its
affiliated museums to local, regional, and national visitors. The Emily
Dickinson Museum is located at 280 Main Street in Amherst.

About Marta McDowell 

Marta McDowell lives, writes and gardens in Chatham, New Jersey. Her garden
writing has appeared in popular publications such as Woman's Day, Fine
Gardening and The New York Times. Scholars and specialists have read her
essays on American authors and their horticultural interests in the journals
Hortus and Arnoldia. McDowell's book, Emily Dickinson's Gardens, was
published by McGraw-Hill in 2005. She is the author of the Emily Dickinson
Museum's landscape audio tour and was an advisor for the New York Botanical
Garden's 2010 exhibit Emily Dickinson's Gardens: The Poetry of Flowers.
McDowell teaches landscape history and preservation at the New York
Botanical Garden and Drew University.   

About A.N. Devers 

A.N. Devers divides her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Asbury Park,
New Jersey. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bust magazine, the
Brooklyn Rail, The Southampton Review, The Rumpus, TimeOut NY, Tin House,
and The Washington Post. She is on the editorial board at Pen America: A
Journal for Writers & Readers. She teaches in the English Department at
Adelphi University and received her MFA from the Bennington Writing
Seminars. She is the editor of writershouses.com, a website she founded in
2010 for literary pilgrims everywhere. 

About Margot Livesey

Margot Livesey grew up in the Scottish Highlands and took a B.A. in English
and philosophy at the University of York in England. Her first book, a
collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin
Canada in 1986. Since then Livesey has published seven novels: Homework,
Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona, The
House on Fortune Street, and The Flight of Gemma Hardy. Livesey has been the
recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the N.E.A., the
Massachusetts Artists' Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. She
is currently a distinguished writer in residence at Emerson College in
Boston. For more information, visit www.margotlivesey.com.

About The Common 

The Common, edited by Jennifer Acker, publishes fiction, essays, poetry,
documentary vignettes, and images that embody particular times and places
both real and imagined; from deserts to teeming ports; from Winnipeg to
Beijing; from Earth to the Moon. The magazine, which recently published its
third issue, seeks a modern sense of place. The Common is published in print
biannually from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and maintains an
active website at www.thecommononline.org.

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