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How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How
does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it
evoke a sense of place? In Spirit of Place, Bill Noble helps
gardeners answer these questions by sharing how they influenced the
creation of his garden in Vermont. He explores the history of New
England gardens and how they were shaped by a rugged landscape,
harsh climate, and European ideas about design and plantsmanship.
Throughout, Noble reveals that a garden is never created in a
vacuum, but is rather the outcome of an individual's personal
vision combined with historical and cultural forces. Sumptuously
illustrated, this thoughtful look at the process of garden-making
will inspire home gardeners everywhere to leverage the history and
site of their own landscape to create a truly spirited place.
2021 Foreword Indies Honorable Mention for Essays What is a lyric
essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with
form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of these?
Or something else entirely? The works in this anthology
show lyric essays rely more on intuition than
exposition, use image more than narration, and question more than
answer. But despite all this looseness, the lyric essay still has
responsibilities—to try to reveal something, to play with ideas,
or to show a shift in thinking, however subtle. The whole of
a lyric essay adds up to more than the sum of its parts. In A Harp
in the Stars, Randon Billings Noble has collected lyric essays
written in four different forms—flash, segmented, braided, and
hermit crab—from a range of diverse writers. The
collection also includes a section of craft essays—lyric
essays about lyric essays. And because lyric essays can be so
difficult to pin down, each contributor has supplemented their work
with a short meditation on this boundary-breaking form.
"Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me
in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" Thus does Heathcliff beg
his dead Cathy in Wuthering Heights. He wants to be haunted-he
insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of
exorcising the ghosts of her past, she hopes for their cold hands
to knock at the window and to linger. Be with Me Always is a
collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how
the ghosts of our pasts cling to us. In a way, all good essays are
about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or
understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been
haunted-by a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model,
thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn's violent death, a book she
can't stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughts-in essays
both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently
evocative and unforgettable.
I wrote this book as a autobiography (Memoirs) for which I am
giving tribute to my biological mother and two stepmothers who
assisted in raising me from infant to adulthood. My father gained
custody of me at the age of two (2) and raised me with the help of
my two stepmothers. Growing up as a child was a journey for me and
my mother(s) gave me specific gifts to prevail and succeed. I thank
them for their loving, caring, and sharing attitudes toward me. I
forgive my dad for his abusiveness during my childhood as he did
not know what he was doing. However, he had the insight to choose
women who were remarkable human beings. Children from dysfunctional
family backgrounds will hopefully enjoy reading this book; and
adults who have similar backgrounds will appreciate from whence I
have come. I hope that this book will be an inspiration to all
affected persons to succeed.
Lord & Schryver, the first landscape architecture firm founded
and operated by women in the Pacific Northwest, designed more than
250 gardens in Oregon and Washington, including the grounds for
Reed College of Portland, Salem parks, and schools, public
buildings and churches. Gaiety Hollow, the Salem house Elizabeth
Lord and Edith Schryver built as a home and studio for themselves,
is now owned by the Lord & Schryver Conservancy and (in
non-pandemic times) open to the public. The Conservancy has
lovingly restored the gardens at Gaiety Hollow according to Lord
& Schryver's plans. They also manage, and have restored, the
gardens at Deepwood, a Queen Anne house two blocks from Gaiety
Hollow. Lord & Schryver met as young women and in 1929
established a highly successful landscape architecture firm in
Salem; their work is acknowledged as one of the milestones in the
history of garden design in the Northwest and beyond. Their firm is
the only Oregon firm recognized in Pioneers of Landscape
Architecture, compiled by the US National Park Service. The
Cultural Landscape Foundation describes them as "consummate
professionals in the broadest sense, as they worked to raise the
profile of landscape architects by involving an audience beyond
their clients. Their work represented a transition from a formal
symmetrical style of garden design to one which responded in a
distinctive way to the unique features of Northwest climate, soil,
topography, and plant material.
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