I tend my flowers for thee" — A Full Day with Emily Dickinson
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There are days that stay with you.
On Thursday, July 9th, Bouquets of the Valley is taking a small group — just 16 people — to spend the morning at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst.
Not a regular visit. A private one.
We'll have guided tours of the Homestead and The Evergreens — the home of Emily's brother and sister-in-law next door. And then, something the museum does not offer to the general public: an exclusive garden tour of the landscapes of both houses.
Emily Dickinson was better known as a gardener in her lifetime than as a poet. Her flower beds, the Dickinson hay meadow, and the forested Pelham Hills became the backdrop for her poetic exploration and inspiration. As she became more reclusive, both her flowers and her poems served as emissaries for her.
We will stand in that garden.
Afterward we'll carpool back to Cottage Street, sit down together for a light lunch at the shop, wander the district for a bit, and then settle into the studio for the Dickinson Pressing Workshop — where you'll begin your own handmade herbarium journal and press a glass botanical specimen to take home. In her exact tradition.
The full day:
8:30am — Meet at 32 Cottage Street · carpool departs by 8:45
9:20am — Arrive at the Emily Dickinson Museum
9:30am — Private tours of the Homestead and The Evergreens
11:30am — Exclusive garden tour
12:30pm — Carpool back to Easthampton
1:00pm — Light lunch at the shop · explore Cottage Street
2:30pm — Dickinson Pressing Workshop
4:30pm — Home
$165 per person · all inclusive · 16 places only
On Thursday, July 9th, Bouquets of the Valley is taking a small group — just 16 people — to spend the morning at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst.
Not a regular visit. A private one.
We'll have guided tours of the Homestead and The Evergreens — the home of Emily's brother and sister-in-law next door. And then, something the museum does not offer to the general public: an exclusive garden tour of the landscapes of both houses.
Emily Dickinson was better known as a gardener in her lifetime than as a poet. Her flower beds, the Dickinson hay meadow, and the forested Pelham Hills became the backdrop for her poetic exploration and inspiration. As she became more reclusive, both her flowers and her poems served as emissaries for her.
We will stand in that garden.
Afterward we'll carpool back to Cottage Street, sit down together for a light lunch at the shop, wander the district for a bit, and then settle into the studio for the Dickinson Pressing Workshop — where you'll begin your own handmade herbarium journal and press a glass botanical specimen to take home. In her exact tradition.
The full day:
8:30am — Meet at 32 Cottage Street · carpool departs by 8:45
9:20am — Arrive at the Emily Dickinson Museum
9:30am — Private tours of the Homestead and The Evergreens
11:30am — Exclusive garden tour
12:30pm — Carpool back to Easthampton
1:00pm — Light lunch at the shop · explore Cottage Street
2:30pm — Dickinson Pressing Workshop
4:30pm — Home
$165 per person · all inclusive · 16 places only
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32 Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA, United States
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