Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation

Mar 15, 2013

Location Information
7 p.m. @ First Congregational Church

This beautifully illustrated talk looks at the lives of the
founding fathers and how their attitude to plants, gardens, nature and
agriculture shaped the American nation. George Washington, John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison regarded themselves foremost as farmers
and plantsmen and for them gardening, agriculture and botany were
elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their
belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. In a unique retelling
of the creation of America, award-winning historian Andrea Wulf will show
how plants, politics and personalities intertwined as never before.

This event is free and open to the public!