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The Elizabethan Snail Mount

The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning.
Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and alleys, enough for […]

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October climax set for The Mount - Berkshire Eagle Online

By Benning W. De La Mater, Berkshire Eagle Staff

Article Last Updated: 05/14/2008 03:00:18 AM EDT

LENOX — An agreement between The Mount and its creditors has staved off foreclosure and a May 31 deadline that would have forced Edith […]

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Table of Contents: April 28, 2008: Table of Contents: The New Yorker - Annotated

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Restoration Drama
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Olmsted’s Legacy: Parks for American Cities : NPR - Annotated

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The Bryant Park Project, April 25, 2008 · This weekend marks the 150th anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted’s winning the contest to design New York City’s Central Park. Biographer Charles Beveridge says Olmsted’s work became the template […]

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At Botanical Garden: What Darwin Saw Out Back - New York Times - Annotated

By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: April 25, 2008

Damon Winter/The New York Times
Orchids on display at the New York Botanical Garden recall the varieties Darwin studied and the role they played in his future naturalist theories.

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