2oth conference on
restoring southern
gardens & landscapes
Learning from the Past
planting for the future
October 1 – 3, 2015
winston-salem, north carolina
SOUTHERN
GARDEN
HISTORY
SOCIETY
a conference for the american south
Old Salem Museums & Gardens in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has served as the
setting for the biennial Conference on Restoring Southern
Gardens and Landscapes since its founding in 1979.
The conference’s mission has been to promote historic
horticulture, garden history, and landscape restoration in the
southern states, presenting topics of interest to the professional
and layman alike and providing participants an opportunity to
learn and share information about this field in the South.
The 2oth Conference recognizes several major themes in southern
landscape restoration that have gained attention and momentum
in the years since the conference’s founding, including heirloom
gardening and seed saving, restoring the early 2oth-century
southern garden, the African American farm and garden
landscape, and early images of the southern landscape.
Key speakers include Peggy Cornett, Curator of Plants,
Monticello; Ira Wallace, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange;
Suzanne Turner, Landscape Architect; Matthew Raiford,
CheFarmer; Michael W. Twitty, Culinary Historian of
African and African American Foodways; Judith Tankard,
Landscape Historian; Beate Ankjaer-Jensen, Gari Melchers Home
and Studio; Jane White, Restoration Gardener; and Johanna
Brown, Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts, Old Salem.
The conference is co-sponsored by Old Salem
Museums & Gardens, The Southern Garden History Society
and Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
oldsalem.org/landscapeconference · 8oo-441-53o5
Thursday, October 1
Unless otherwise noted all sessions take place in the James A. Gray, Jr. Auditorium,
Old Salem Visitor Center, 900 Old Salem Road
10:00 – 5:00 conference registration
Old Salem Visitor Center, 900 Old Salem Road
1:30 welcome and introductions
Gray Auditorium, Old Salem Visitor Center
Ragan Folan, President and CEO, Old Salem Museums & Gardens
Carleton Wood, President, Southern Garden History Society
Allison Perkins, Associate Provost for Reynolda House Museum of American Art and
Reynolda Gardens, Wake Forest University
session i: seed saving and heirloom gardening
2:00 family heirloom seeds: saving stories, preserving biodiversity
Ira Wallace, Worker/Owner Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Cooperative; Author of
The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast, Mineral, Virginia
3:00 afternoon break & book signing
3:30 heirloom plants of old salem:
preserving a history of beauty and utility
Eric Jackson, Heritage Gardens and Outreach, and
Ellen McCullough, Flower and Herb Specialist,
Horticulture Department Staff, Old Salem Museums & Gardens
4:15 southern heirloom apples
C. Lee Calhoun, Jr., Author, Old Southern Apples, Pittsboro, NC
5:00 – 5:30 southern heirloom apple tree project planting in old salem
Margaret Norfleet Neff and Salem Neff, Beta Verde LLC, Winston-Salem, NC
Scott Sipes, Single Brothers’ Garden and Fruit Manager, Horticulture Department,
Old Salem Museums & Gardens
6:30 reception
7:00 conference dinner
Honoring Flora Ann Bynum and her role in the establishment of the Conference
Musical Prelude: “Flora and Splendor: Music for the Garden”
Performed on the 1802 Tannenberg Organ
Scott Carpenter, Director of Music Programming, Organist and Curator of Keyboard Instruments
Old Salem Museums & Gardens
8:00
Flora Ann Bynum Keynote Lecture:
the lady who lived up to her name: flora ann bynum and the
conference for the american south
Peggy Cornett, Curator of Plants, Monticello
Friday, October 2
session ii: pen, brush & lens: art in the garden
9:00 from congregation town to cradle of industry:
a century of north carolina moravian landscapes, 1790–1890
Johanna Brown, Director of Collections, Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts,
Old Salem Museums & Gardens
10:00 morning break & book signing
10:30 evergreen farm by j.m. jarvis: a rare photographic diary
Martha Hartley, Director of Research and Outreach, Restoration Division,
Old Salem Museums & Gardens
11:00 designing paradise: women landscape architects
Judith Tankard, Landscape Historian, Waban, MA
An introduction to the Saturday afternoon viewing of The Artist’s Garden:
American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 opening Saturday at
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
12:00 box lunch
The Tavern in Old Salem: Tavern Arbor
1:00 time to visit the old salem gardens and museum buildings
Please wear conference name tag for admission
· Single Brothers’ Garden, Family Gardens, and Miksch Garden with the
Old Salem Gardeners
· Blum House: Special Exhibitions: Landscape Views of Early Salem, Salem Needlework,
and Karsten Petersen & Sons: A Trade Shop in Transition
· Old Salem Museum Buildings: Single Brothers’ House, Miksch House, John Vogler House,
Salem Tavern Museum, Vogler Gun Shop
session iii: the african american landscape & garden
St. Philips Heritage Center, 911 S. Church Street
2:30 reconstructing the gardens of the enslaved 1760–1860
Michael W. Twitty, Culinary Historian of African and African American Foodways, Rockville, Maryland
3:30 afternoon break
4:00 shaping the agricultural landscape: african american farming
and the use of legacy knowledge
Matthew Raiford, CheFarmer, Gilliard Farms, Brunswick, Georgia
6:00 informal “covered dish” supper on the st. philips grounds
featuring african american cuisine
Saturday, October 3
9:00 old salem cobblestone farmers market
Adjacent to the Single Brothers’ Garden
session iv: restoring the early 20th-century
southern landscape
9:30 a tale of two gardens: the havens’ residence in houston, texas,
and cheekwood in nashville, tennessee
Suzanne Turner, Principal, Suzanne Turner Associates, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
10:30 morning break & book signing
11:00 lessons learned . . . . from the restoration of the historic
garden of harlem renaissance poet anne spencer
Jane Baber White, Restoration Gardener and Author, Lynchburg, Virginia
11:30 the artist’s garden:
gari and corinne melchers at belmont, 1916–1955
Beate Ankjaer-Jensen, Cultural Resource Manager, Gari Melchers Home and Studio,
Falmouth, Virginia
12:00 lunch
afternoon at reynolda house museum of american art
and reynolda gardens
Exhibition: The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920
Driving directions and a map will be provided. Transportation provided upon request.
conference hotels
Conference block rates will be held until August 30, 2015
The Historic Brookstown Inn
200 Brookstown Avenue
336-725-1120 · 800-845-4262
brookstowninn.com
Hawthorne Inn
420 High Street
336-777-3000 · 877-777-3099
wakehealth.edu/hawthorne-inn
Images Courtesy of Old Salem Museums & Gardens; Hauser Family Collection;
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange; Judith Tankard; Jane White; Gari Melchers Home & Studio
The Artist’s Garden image: Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939), Lady in a Garden, c. 1912,
Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 25 ¾ in. Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.52.
Photo: © Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
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registration fee: Includes all conference materials, resources, admission to Old Salem,
MESDA and Reynolda House, keynote lecture and dinner, conference sessions, Friday and Saturday lunch,
Thursday and Friday dinners.
registration deadline: September 28, 2015
cancellation policy: Cancellations received before September 17, 2015, will be refunded in full,
less a $25 administrative fee. Cancellations received from September 17 to September 24 will be refunded
50 percent. There will be no refunds after September 24.
total
Number of registrants
_____ $340: General Registration ($360 after Sept. 17) $_______
_____ $300: Friends/Members ($320 after Sept. 17) Old Salem/MESDA
Reynolda House
$_______
Southern Garden History Society
_____ $100: Students (attach copy of student ID) $_______
_____ $100: Single Session (select one) $_______
Thursday afternoon and dinner/keynote
Friday morning and lunch
Friday afternoon and dinner
Saturday morning, lunch and exhibition
Contribution to support student scholarships: $_______
total payment:
$_______
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Return to: Landscape Conference: Old Salem Group Tours & Reservations
600 S. Main St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101 or Fax: 336-499-7982
For information and registration : 800-441-5305 · oldsalem.org/landscapeconference
Conference Sponsors:
old salem museums & gardens
southern garden history society
reynolda house museum of american art
old salem museums & gardens
6oo south main street
winston-salem, nc 271o1
336-721-736o
2oth conference on restoring
southern gardens & landscapes
non-profit
organization
u.s. postage paid
permit no. 93
winston-salem,
nc