More spring/summer 2007 garden tours

Consider These Additional Upcoming New England Garden Tours

Through Back Bay Gates & Doors (Boston, MA) June 5, 2007 www.gardenclubbackbay.org

Urban Gardens Celebration: Twilight Garden Tour and Reception at the Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, NH) June 7, 2007 www.historicnewengland.org

Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s 10th Annual Secret Garden Tour (Provincetown, MA) July 15, 2007 www.paam.org/secretgarden.html

Spring/summer 2007 special events

Recommended upcoming New England festivals and events

Newport International Film Festival (Newport, RI) June 5-10, 2007 www.newportfilmfestival.com

Nantucket Film Festival (Nantucket, MA) June 13-17, 2007 www.nantucketfilmfestival.org

Art in the Barn (Essex, MA) June 15-17, 2007 www.ecga.org/Events/aib.html

Marblehead Festival of Arts (Marblehead, MA) June 30-July 4, 2007 www.marbleheadfestival.org

Micro & Mini Car Day (Brookline, MA) July 14, 2007 www.mot.org

Spring/summer/early fall 2007 continuing education

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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Reading recommendation: The Architecture of Happiness

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.

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