The ever-active Trips Committee is still at it even during the summer doldrums. This time they've come up with an excursion to the famous Untermyer Gardens. It is planned for Wed. Sept. 5.
Designed in 1916 for Samuel Untermyer, a wealthy lawyer, the gardens were among the best in America in the 1920s and 1930s. With 60 greenhouses and 60 gardeners, they were too costly to keep up after Untermyer’s death in 1940 and in the 21st century were mainly ruins. The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, founded in 2011, has been restoring the gardens to their former glory and in partnership with the City of Yonkers has achieved wonders, although complete restoration will take years and millions of dollars. The trip will focus on the Walled Garden, based on Indo-Persian gardens of antiquity with lush plants and flowers, a Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge, canals, Grecian-style architecture, sculpture and mosaics including a Temple of the Sky and an amphitheater.
Sign up as usual in the Trips Book located in the Activities Alcove.