early fall 2007 continuing education

March 28, 2007 Katie Hutchison

Recommended New England Courses about House, Garden, and Related Creative Arts

(Classes and schedules are subject to change so check program websites for updates.)

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Adult Education

Located in Jamaica Plain, MA, “The Arnold Arboretum’s adult education program offers one-day and multi-session horticulture, botany, and landscape-related courses for the beginner, avid amateur, and professional,” according to their website. I’ve taken some tree and plant identification courses here and found them affordable and enlightening. This evening offering sounds promising:

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March 22, 2007 Katie Hutchison

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Reading recommendation: The Architecture of Happiness

March 20, 2007 Katie Hutchison

by Alain de Botton

In the last chapter of his book, when discussing the possibility of evolving tastes, de Botton writes, “It is books, poems and paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.” Certainly this is the achievement of de Botton’s book, to reveal what we may have known but failed to appreciate.

Reading recommendation: Cottage for Sale, Must be Moved

March 20, 2007 Katie Hutchison

by Kate Whouley

This is a sweet memoir about a small project with a small budget and the rewards of savoring a small opportunity. Kate Whouley invites us into her life among her family, friends, planners, town administrators, movers, contractors and inner musings to share her tale of her simple wish to marry her modest 1950’s Cape to a minimal cottage of the same vintage on her quiet Cape Cod property.

Reading recommendation: House Thinking

March 20, 2007 Katie Hutchison

by Winifred Gallagher

Perhaps this book could just as well have been titled House Feeling rather than House Thinking. No, the book’s subject is not what a house thinks or feels but, more specifically, what we feel about our houses. Gallagher’s room-by-room analysis focuses on the ways that our environment influences our behavior and ultimately the way we feel.

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