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Sep 11, 2024WORKSHOP - WRITING ABOUT OUR GARDENS, with Ryder S. WyattThursday, October 24 - 10:00 AMIn the Mansion at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum Have you ever wanted to capture a moment in time in nature or found self expression through your work in the garden? Join us as we explore the garden in written word. There are several ways writers convey their love of the time they spend in nature, and in and around their gardens. One is in memoir form, and the other is by writing personal narrative. Personal narrative is a factual retelling of an event in your life, written in a linear fashion, as you remember it. Memoir is retelling of a segment of your life, written knowing memory is fallible. In memoir, the emotions surrounding the events guide the writer to recreate the narrative. Join Ms. Wyatt as she explains the various ways in which the two forms differ. This hour and a half workshop will include a short lesson, informal discussion, free write, opportunity to read work and feedback. Attendees will receive prompts to guide them during the process. Please bring photos or other tangible items to the workshop to help you remember. Ryder S. Wyatt has been a writer for more than three decades. She holds a BA in Communications and Journalism from New England College, a degree in Executive Coaching from Columbia University's Teachers College, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in many journals and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsweek and various blogs, websites and news outlets. The NPR broadcast, "Cultivating Place", featured Ryder's heirloom gardens and home in a June 2017 podcast. A life-long nature lover and self-taught gardener, Ryder was a Zone Four Garden History and Design representative for the Garden Club of America and her club's Garden History and Design Chair for ten years. She is the fourth generation to live on her family's homestead, once a thriving 300-acre working Black Angus farm previously owned by her grandparents and father - the subject of her memoir in progress. For more information and to register, click on the photo of Ms. Wyatt 2024 TREE SYMPOSIUM Saturday, November 2 - 8:30 AMIn person at The Frelinghuysen ArboretumThe Friends will be hosting our Annual Tree Symposium on Saturday, November 2. Beginning with registration and coffee at 8:30 AM, attendees will be welcomed to a series of five presentations by a wide variety of speakers:
For more information on the speakers and their presentations, and to register, please click on the tree icon. MORRIS COUNTY PARK COMMISSION PROGRAM Expressions of Nature Art Walk & SaleSaturday, September 21 (rain date: Sunday, September 22) - 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PMAt The Frelinghuysen ArboretumStroll through the gardens and meet local artists recreating the beautiful scenery through their art. For more information and to register, click on the flyer. AT THE ARBORETUMIn anticipation of the Tree Symposium in November, here are just a few examples of the variety of trees in The Frelinghuysen Arboretum's collection. A lovely Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca' (Blue Atlas Cedar) in front of the Mansion, a majestic Quercus rubra (Red Oak), an ornamental Cornus Kousa (Kousa Dogwood) and an Acer palmatum cv. Sango Kaku (Coral Bark Japanese Maple) in full fall attire. Picture credits: Margery Ennist. 
Click an image to see them all in our website's picture gallery. WATCH PREVIOUS ZOOM PRESENTATIONSSeveral of our previously recorded events are available to watch on-line. See our Prerecorded Events page for more information and to register.Retail PartnersWhen shopping at our fine Retail Partners, please remember to present your Membership card at the beginning of your check out transaction. Our Retail Partners need to enter the discount at the beginning of that process. If you have not yet used this wonderful Member Benefit, you can view our full list of Retail Partners by clicking here. You can register and pay on line on our Events page and Membership page and subscribe to this newsletter here: complete directions for subscribing. CONTACT US HERE
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Friends of The Frelinghuysen Arboretum Post Office Box 2267 Morristown, NJ 07962 Web: https://www.arboretumfriends.org PARK INFORMATION The Frelinghuysen Arboretum is a facility of the Morris County Park Commission
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