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Chicago's Botanic Garden: Translating Horticulture Into CHICAGO’S BOTANIC GARDEN: TRANSLATING HORTICULTURE INTO COMMUNITY ACTION A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY REBA DREY LUIKEN IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY SALLY GREGORY KOHLSTEDT JANUARY 2020 © Reba Drey Luiken Acknowledgements A completed dissertation may be evidence of many things, but it certainly reflects the presence of numerous supporters. My advisor, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, has been chief among them from the beginning of my graduate journey. She has offered ongoing encouragement, consistently high standards, and prompt responses to questions and feedback on work. Her detailed critiques have influenced all of my major writing projects and her broad experience has shaped my development as a scholar and professional. She has been always generous with her time and deep expertise. My committee members have also been enthusiastic supporters throughout my graduate school career. Susan Jones guided me in environmental history pursuits and as a teaching assistant. Juliet Burba has offered sage advice about careers in museums and outside of academia. Dominique Tobbell provided critical and detailed advice on oral history methods and insightful comments on intersections between my research and the history of medicine. Lisa Aston Philander has been an enthusiastic cheerleader and an invaluable collaborator on garden and exhibits projects. Beyond these individuals, the University of Minnesota has been an ongoing home as I have developed from an undergraduate to a doctoral student. Deena Wassenberg generously adopted my interest in science education and steered my undergraduate honors thesis when it became clear that I found people more interesting than plants by themselves. Katherine Gerbner cultivated my skills and interest in history and shepherded my applications to graduate school. Colleagues in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine program and the Boreas Leadership program at the Institute on the Environment have enriched my graduate experience immensely. Various segments of the i university have also provided the necessary funding for the development of this project. The HSTM program lent support in the form of summer travel grants and the Kohlstedt Fellowship. The College of Science and Engineering generously supported me with three years of a fellowship, and the Graduate School provided a dissertation travel grant. Throughout these travels, I have been assisted by numerous archivists and staff members, past and present, at the Chicago Botanic Garden, New York Botanical Garden, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. In particular, I would like to thank Kathy Crosby at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for her repeated welcome at the garden’s library and Leora Siegel for her ongoing help in accessing materials already in the collection and transferring oral history-related materials to the Chicago Horticultural Society archive. My appreciation also goes to archivists, assistants, and historians of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Garden Club of America’s national headquarters, Kenilworth Historical Society and Kenilworth Garden Club, Chicago History Museum, and LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden. Close to home, Lois Hendrickson has offered ongoing advice about resources and research ideas, and Kathy Allen and her staff at the Andersen Horticultural Library have made the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum the perfect place to put the finishing touches on a dissertation, tracking down books, journals, and missing citations. As I have met them through research, interviews, and conferences, botanic garden staff have proved themselves, on the whole, a group of friendly, welcoming, and helpful people. At the New York Botanical Garden, Ursula Chanse and Jodie Colon helped to connect me to community gardeners and opened their own history archive to me. At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Maureen O’Brien provided connections to community ii gardeners in her borough. The community gardeners and former staff members I interviewed in Chicago, Cliff Zenor, Sr. Cecilia Fandel, Jim Vear, Rebecca Severson, and Jaimie Douglass, made this dissertation possible. This is especially true of Severson and Douglass, who provided me with personal papers, clippings, and slides from their time at Chicago Botanic that they had saved for decades. Then, there are the people who have supported me from long before a dissertation or graduate school were a part of my reality. My parents have continued to support and encourage me academically and personally, inquiring with genuine interest about my work, my ideas, and my future. Jarek has remained a loving and amicable partner, making sure I am well fed, have clean clothes to wear, and spend some of my time doing things other than working. He has, astoundingly, remained amused about my ongoing infatuation with plants and plant people. Our child has provided the final encouragement, one kick at a time, to finish this project…soon. iii Dedicated to my grandfathers Peter Gordon Juetten (1941-2010) and John Anthony Drey (1937-2018) iv Abstract In 1972 when the Chicago Botanic Garden opened to the public, it introduced the nation’s “second city” to its new botanic garden. Just one of a proliferation of new museums in the second half of the twentieth century, the botanic garden would become a national leader of in community work as museums and public gardens focused on local community engagement. From its inception, CBG aspired to join the most well- established botanic gardens in the United States. This dissertation documents the financial, social, and personal influences that shaped programs that were innovative and effective. As the Chicago Botanic Garden developed, its leaders strove to meet the tripartite goals of the field—scientific inquiry, education, and landscape cultivation. They proved to be particularly successful in the area of education and, specifically, community horticulture. Encompassing programs like horticultural therapy, community gardening, and environmental and science education in local schools, community horticulture programs became centers of expertise at the garden. Given CBG’s origin in the Chicago Horticultural Society, staff and board members at the botanic garden already had a vested interest in ongoing programs in the field, and this led them to concentrate resources there, often at the expense of research development. Dedicated leadership at the executive level succeeded in creating a striking physical landscape, even as they balanced the goal of reaching central areas of the city of Chicago. The public, private foundations, and governmental funders demanded increased relevance and accountability. As a suburban garden funded in large part by urban tax revenue and a young museum without an established scientific reputation or broad philanthropic base, garden leaders and staff v worked hard to meet sponsors’ expectations. Ultimately, CBG did provide an impressive number of widely recognized programs by the end of the century. In significant ways its community horticulture accomplishments relied on the expertise of long-tenured employees who built an environmentally just community infrastructure through personal relationships and strategic funding strategies. vi Table of Contents Acknowledgements i Dedications iv Abstract v List of Abbreviations viii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: A Suburban Garden for Chicago 41 Chapter 2: Horticultural Therapy before Research: Timing and Priorities 73 Chapter 3: Growing a Community and Planting a Garden 118 Chapter 4: Educating Children: A Scientific or Environmental Project? 174 Conclusion 222 Bibliography 235 vii List of Abbreviations BBG Brooklyn Botanic Garden Archives, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York. BGU Bronx Green-Up Archives, New York Botanical Garden, New York, New York. CHM Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois. CHS Chicago Horticultural Society Archives, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois. GCA Garden Club of America National Archives, New York, New York. JD Jamie Douglass Papers, as given to Reba Luiken by Jamie Douglass. JV Jim Vear Portfolio, as shown to Reba Luiken by Jim Vear, Glenview, Illinois. KHS Kenilworth Historical Society, Kenilworth, Illinois. NYBG Mertz Library Archives, New York Botanical Garden, New York, New York. RS Rebecca Severson Papers, as given to Reba Luiken by Rebecca Severson. viii Introduction This morning, I looked up 6212 South Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois on Google Maps.1 Zooming into streetview, the scene I saw was a majestic sunrise over a grassy meadow, snapped in October 2018. The neighboring trees were starting to turn from green to orange. Ultimately, though, the image rang somber because I did not find either of the things I anticipated. The site had been a community garden in Chicago, started in 1990 and re-started in 1996. Like many community gardens in Chicago, it did not persist, and there were multiple explanations. However, in this case, redevelopment, the other outcome I had anticipated, did not happen either. In fact, the block remained more vacant than occupied—more than half of its lots had no buildings, just like the next two blocks to its west. And all this was only two blocks south of the University of Chicago. The gardens at 6212 South Woodlawn could be considered failures, due to lack of sustainability, but the lot exemplifies the priorities and realities of the community horticulture programs created by the Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG) in the city of
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