Cornell Cooperative Extension: Garden Day

This one-day gardening extravaganza is a community educational program presented by the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County Master Gardener Program.

Everyone will gather in the Quimby Theater at 9am to begin the day with our Keynote Speaker, Carolyn Keogh, Director of Education & Public Programs at The Olana Partnership who will present “Olana: Place as Inspiration”, an informative talk about the vision of Frederick Church during the emergence of the 19^th century ecological movement.

Learn more about 19th century artist Frederic Church’s masterwork which will examine Church and his artist-designed house and landscape through the lenses of art, ecology, and place. Carolyn will discuss how deeply rooted Olana and Church’s practice is in the idea of “place as inspiration,” discussing Church’s engagements with the emerging field of ecology in the 19th century and exploring his four-decade-long development of Olana as a work of three dimensional landscape design.