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The Civic Beautification Committee Has Been Busy!

Mel, Diana and Becky planted at the Veterans’ Garden at Stratham Hill Park last week and then returned in the morning on Memorial Day to make it spic and span for the ceremonies. Thanks to Becky for the photos.

Mel & Diana spiffing up the place.

Becky makes a clean sweep!

Nance, Abby-Jane, LuAnn, Lynda, Helen, Nancy, Pat, Donna, Jill and Rita joined in to fix up the bandstand in Exeter. Thanks to Nance for the photos.

The Crew

Keep digging!

Such happy gardeners.

Feeding the bushes.

Remembrance

May22

Margery Heffron

Garden Club members who remember the wonderful Margery Heffron, who died all too soon in 2011, will be pleased to know that her biography of Louisa Catherine Adams, that she worked on for more than 30 years, has been published by Yale University Press. It has been greeted by glowing reviews in the New Yorker and in the both the daily and the Sunday New York Times, where it landed a spot on the coveted front page. A review in the New York Review of Books is due out soon. It is exceedingly rare and a great honor for a book by an unknown author and an “independent scholar” to receive this kind of attention.

On Tuesday, June 3, at 7 PM the Water Street Bookstore is hosting an event celebrating Margery’s achievement, “Two Admirable Women: Louisa Catherine Adams and her Biographer, the late Margery Heffron, Exeter Resident.”

~Becky M.

2013 Mini-Grant Works

Mar27

Mini-Grant Dollars in action!

Here are some of the projects that were completed with help from our mini-grants in 2013. The seacoast is an even more beautiful place now! Thanks to the Environment & Conservation Committee for making this happen.

There is still time to apply for a 2014 grant. Check it out!