Friday, June 22, 2018, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. EDT
Dr. Jennifer Atkinson and Dr. Robert S. Emmett will explore the garden's unique role in American history and literature, including ways it has shaped U.S. culture and the arts, social justice movements, environmental advocacy, and other public and private visions of the good life.
5:30pm, Friday, June 22, 2018 S. Dillon Ripley Center Lecture Hall 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW Washington, DC
Copies of Gardenland: Nature, Fantasy, and Everyday Practice and Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of US Garden Writing will be available for sale; the talk will be followed by a book signing.