Historical society's Nov. 10 program at Frontier Village looks at Washington and Jefferson as gardeners

The Grayson County Historical Society's November program trades battlefields and constitutions for vegetable beds and seed collections.

The society meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Judge R.C. Vaughan Community Room at Frontier Village and Museum, 111 RC Vaughan Road in Loy Lake Park. The park sits between Sherman and Denison, off U.S. 75 at Exit 67. The society, which meets there on the second Tuesday of each month, invited the public in an announcement published by North Texas e-News.

The program

Barbara "Barb" Grisham will speak on George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as gardeners and farmers. According to the society, the talk covers how their experiments at Mount Vernon and Monticello, from landscape design to bringing in and growing new plant varieties, influenced gardening in the early United States.

The society said the presentation will contrast Washington's practical approach to agriculture with Jefferson's interest in botany, and will look at how both men handled native and imported plants. It also plans to touch on links between gardening and Enlightenment-era thinking.

The speaker

Grisham has been a Master Gardener for three decades and lately has spent much of her time teaching Junior Master Gardener classes, the society said. A native of Marion, Illinois, she earned a home economics education degree and moved around the Midwest, with stops in Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, before settling in Texas in 1981.

The announcement does not mention an admission charge or a need to register. The society also said it wants to welcome its newest members at the meeting.

Sources

ntxe-news.com