Inspired by this year's History Center Exhibit titled From Architecture to Beauty, The Dawes Arboretum will be hosting a four-part virtual series featuring Ohio historic landscapes and gardens, their designers, American landscape movements and historic land restorations. In addition to The Dawes Arboretum, this series will feature presentations from Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Adena Mansion & Gardens, and Kingwood Center Gardens. This series will occur once per month from August through November and is free of charge, but registration is required. Once you register for one program, you will automatically be registered for all programs in the series.

For the second installment of this series, a speaker from Adena Mansion & Gardens will be giving a presentation titled, " A Gentleman's Garden on the Frontier" where they will discuss how Thomas Worthington, proprietor of Adena, came from Virginia and brought a Virginia gentleman’s vision to his mansion and gardens. Today’s gardens are works in progress, reflecting countless hours of digging, planting, and weeding. Plant varieties are those that the Worthingtons could have planted – choices based on the ongoing efforts of Adena Mansion and Gardens to learn about Governor Worthington’s era and share that adventure with the public.  

This program is made possible, in part, by Ohio Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this (publication/program/exhibition/website) do not necessarily represent those of Ohio Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.