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THE COES ANd THEiR mAgNifiCENT ORCHID COLLECTION Story page 4

Entrance to Coe Hall, Winter 2014. BOARD OF TRUSTEES mESSAgE fROm THE EXECUTiVE diRECTOR

michael d. Coe Chairman DEAR MEMBERS

Hal davidson This summer we have presented several outside evening concerts and President musical theater performances which have been very well attended. The Sarah Coe biggest crowd, about 700, came for the July 19th Billy Joel tribute band Vice President WE WARMLY on the West Portico of Coe Hall. It was a beautiful evening. We are Peter Tilles WELCOME... looking forward to our fall-winter concert series for Coe Hall on Friday Vice President A NEW TRUSTEE evenings, once a month, October through April. Details appear here on Peter Tiberio TO PLANTiNg fiELdS Treasurer page 23. fOUNdATiON John Casaly Secretary Our first time luncheon-lecture was very good indeed; Gloria Groom Andrew F. Nevin from the Chicago Art Institute was an excellent speaker. She presented is a partner at Highstar g. morgan Browne her research for the exhibition, Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity. Hannah Burns Lunch was served under the oak tree in the Cloister . There will Capital, a fourth generation gib Chapman be another luncheon-lecture next June. mary Ciullo infrastructure Ronald f. foley fund in New York and Houston The purchase of the Clark furniture for Coe Hall has made a tremendous Robert foschi that focuses on energy, Richard W. gibney impact on the house. The pieces look stunning in the Gallery where they transportation and Anne Coe Hayes* evoke the 1920s era more successfully than in any other room of the margaret Hayes environmental services sectors. house (see photos on page 12). The furniture is now being accessioned Constance Haydock He is responsible for the firm’s Bruce Herlich and catalogued. This summer the Foundation was given some activities in power generation Jeffrey Lee moore interesting pieces of furniture by the estate of Caroline M. DuBois, of and utility sectors as well as Andrew f. Nevin Oyster Bay Cove, including an exceptionally fine grandfather clock (see managing all aspects of new Andreas m. Stenbeck page 26). We are very grateful to her. investments and ongoing Count Ernesto Vitetti* Jennifer A. Wiggins portfolio management. Andrew *Emeritus In the last few weeks we have submitted three grant applications, one to is a member of Highstar’s the Environmental Protection Fund for the preservation and restoration Executive Committee and is on Ex Officio FEATURED of the Manor House, another for an educational facility for the Sensory the board of directors of Star Henry B. Joyce West Generation, GWF Energy, Executive Director, STORIES Garden. We also made a request to a private foundation to support the Planting Fields Foundation Arboretum's mapping program. Ports America and Wildcat Midstream. He is a graduate of Vincent A. Simeone 4. THE COES AND THEIR MAGNIFICENT ORCHID COLLECTION Williams College and earned a Director, The building of the Sensory Garden is progressing well. Columns for the Planting Fields Arboretum William R. Coe was passionate about B.A. in Economics, cum laude. State Historic Park the entrance pavilion are currently being built. It is a very exciting Planting fields, particularly about his trees, He lives in Locust Valley with and flowers. project. iN THiS iSSUE his wife, Amos, and their two 18. mapping Program sons, Charles Vincent and Buffalo Room 12. THE CLARK FAMILY TREASURES I hope that you will visit Planting Fields to enjoy the beautiful fall colors. in June, the foundation purchased fifty-four Wallace Valentine, ages 6 and 3. 19. Environmental rare pieces of English antique furniture from Andrew is an avid golfer with a Front cover: Portrait of Education Caroline Coe wearing one of The Clark family Treasures sale at Christies Warmest regards, strong appreciation for the in New York City. her favorite Cattleya orchids by 20. Calendar of Events outdoors, gained from growing Frank Salisbury, about 1930, oil on canvas, in great hall. 23. music at the mansion SCHOOL DAYS AT PLANTING FIELDS up in the wide open spaces of 24. Recent Events 16. southwestern Ohio as well as Top R: Orchid Bc. in 1948 a deed was prepared that stated after Henry B. Joyce his collegiate experience in the Massangeana Bc. Mrs. F. 26. A gift of decorative the death of mr. Coe, Planting fields would Executive Director Leemann C.trianaei. Art Objects become a center for horticultural education. Planting Fields Foundation Berkshire Mountains.

2 3 THE COES ANd THEiR mAgNifiCENT ORCHID COLLECTION

BY HENRY B. JOYCE Medals won by Mr. Coe for his prize orchids.

William R. Coe was passionate about One of his orders, placed in 1939, wild orchids grow from the equator Orchis, son of a nymph and satyr, Planting Fields, particularly about was for over 400 plants from a to the Arctic Circle. They are a drunk at a Bacchanalian party, single grower, A. J. Keeting & Sons family of plants which appear in attempted to seduce a priestess. For his trees, plants and flowers. in Bradford, England (the firm still over 30,000 species (about four his insult he was killed by the exists). In the 1920s Mr. Coe won times the number of mammal Bacchanalians. His father prayed His letters, and those of his superintendents (now in the gold medals for his orchid displays species), and over 100,000 species if for him to be restored to life but Foundation’s archives) addressed to nurserymen and at the we count man made orchid hybrids. instead the gods changed him into suppliers, show him over a forty year period regularly shows and at the International In their natural habitats orchid a flower—an orchid. buying stock for the estate, particularly rhododendrons, Flower Show, both held in New roots can cling to the bark of a tree camellias and orchids. He purchased thousands of orchid York City (see photo, above). or grow from the crevice of a rock In Europe prior to about 1840, plants, mostly hybrids, mainly from five or six sources, and they have spectacular blooms, tropical orchids were extremely rare Wincluding nurseries in Roslyn on Long Island, Hawaii, The first type of orchid existed made ever more wonderful through and therefore, expensive. Only Florida, England and France. nearly 100 million years ago. In the hybridization. In Greek mythology, royalty and the aristocracy could

Right: “Laeliocattleya Mrs. Medo” was successfully hybridized by Stuart Low’s nursery in England from whom Mr. Coe bought many different plants. Print from Andrey Avinoff’s watercolor. 4 5 grow them in their specially heated America. The genus was named in . As botanists (often 1824 after Sir William Cattley who sponsored by the nobility) collected was the first to bloom a rare more and more species from the specimen imported to England. wild all around the world, many They are prized for their large new orchid hybrids began to be voluptuous lilac or re d colored cultivated. It is in this convention flowers. From the 1930s through that the Coes, beginning about the 1970s Cattleyas were produced 1914, grew rare and precious on an industrial scale to be sold as orchids in their greenhouses at cut flowers, and were in high Planting Fields. For a wealthy demand for celebrating family with social status, having a engagements, weddings, and very large collection of rare orchids anniversaries, to be worn as a was on a par with having a corsage. The Cattleya eventually fell collection of old master paintings. out of fashion but in recent years, with its vintage charm, interest in It was about one hundred the flower has been revived. years ago that the fashion was established of wearing In addition to Cattleyas Mr. Coe orchids pinned to a dress grew a wide variety of orchids, to look almost like a piece including Vandas, Phalaenopsis, of jewelry. Dendrobiums, Brassocattleyas, Cymbidiums, Cypripediums and a host In the great hall of Coe Hall is a of hybridized combinations. In the portrait of Caroline Coe, William 1920s and 1930s Coe donated R. Coe’s third wife, showing her plants to Cornell University to be wearing a Cattleya orchid on her used in propagation experiments dress (about 1930). Of course, it involving different levels of light would have been grown in her own and watering, and seeds from his . Michael D. Coe, collection were sometimes sent to chairman of the trustees of Carr’s Orchid Labs. in New Jersey to Planting Fields Foundation, be germinated. Mr. Coe would remembers that Cattleyas were sometimes visit his suppliers; in the Caroline’s most favorite orchid 1920s he went to Low’s Nursery in type. They are native to Costa Rica Middlesex, England to see their and throughout tropical South stock. In a 1929 letter to Mr. Coe,

Above: Detail of a Catteya orchid worn by Caroline Coe in her portrait by Frank Salisbury (see front cover).

Opposite: W.R. Coe, about 1940 inspecting his orchids with his superintendent William Carter.

6 7 Eileen Low, the proprietor’s Museum of Art’s “Garden Party” daughter wrote, “I remember you exhibition. care for dark mauve and yellow varieties.” Other letters in the Andrey Avinoff (1884-1949) grew Foundation’s archives reveal all up in Russia before the revolution, sorts of issues about purchases. In and studied art before emigrating the mid-1930s, William Carter, to the U.S. in 1916, where he made Coe’s superintendent at Planting a living as a commercial Fields, was in correspondence with illustrator. However, as a young Miss Low about Brassolaeliocattleya man he was a collector of ‘Gordon Highlander’ (an butterflies and in 1924 he became intergeneric hybrid including the curator of entomology at the genera Brassavola and Cattleya), Carnegie Museum of Natural which, disappointingly, had not History in Pittsburgh, of which he flowered for a few years after it had was the director until 1945. His arrived at Planting Fields. watercolors of Plantings Fields’ orchids were made in retirement In 1947 and 1948 Russian while he lived on Long Island’s émigré Andrey Avinoff North Shore with his sister, painted watercolor images Elizabeth Shumatoff, the of nearly one hundred of distinguished portraitist who Mr. Coe’s orchids. painted many North Shore residents including Mr. Coe’s The paintings are said to have been eldest son, William Rogers Coe commissioned by Mr. Coe’s and his wife, Clover, which hang at daughter, Natalie, Countess Vitetti, Coe Hall today. Avinoff’s as a gift for her father. Perhaps watercolors are some of his best because of Mr. Avinoff’s untimely work and are in the manner of the death in 1949, the project was finest botanical illustrations that never finalized and the watercolors flourished in the eighteenth and remained in the possession of the nineteenth centuries. In 1960 artist’s heirs. They continue to be Elizabeth Shumatoff arranged for privately owned and thirty of them fifty of the watercolors to be were exhibited here this spring in published as colored engravings, the Manor House. The show was of which two sets are in the part of the Nassau County Foundation’s library. Pink and Yellow Cymbidium hybrids in the Main Greenhouse, spring 2014.

Cattleya “Fabia ‘Alba’” from Andrey Avinoff’s print portfolio of Mr. Coe’s orchids. Avinoff, who was a distinguished entomologist often added a butterfly to his favorite watercolors.

8 9 In the 1950s Coe bought Vandas, a York as an adjunct of Farmingdale type of spray orchid from William Agricultural College, which will Kirch the Honolulu nurseryman take it over after my death to known as the “Orchid King of establish a college for about a Hawaii.” In July 1952 Coe ordered hundred students in two each of forty different and . It has to be flowering-sized Vandas. Two years maintained in perpetuity.” In her later Kirch air shipped a box of next letter Miss Low tells Coe of flowers for Mr. Coe to inspect in new hybrid Cypripedium which “for the hope that “he will want to add massive size, substance and colour some to his collection.” Kirch surpasses anything we have seen. earned a world-wide reputation as So much so that we have received an orchid grower; among his clients from Sir Winston Churchill his was the Emperor of Japan. With permission to name it after him…I the advent of air-freight he created would very much like to send you the successful “Orchid of the one…the price is 45 guineas.” Mr. Month Club” offering customers a Coe wrote back, “45 guineas is a flowering orchid on their doorstep lot of money for one . Am I each month of the year. correct in assuming that there are no plants of this variety in the In 1954, at the age of 85, United States? On the assurance one year before his death, that you will ship me a strong, Mr. Coe was keenly healthy plant that will be flowering purchasing orchids. this winter or spring, I will be glad to have you include one in the In August that year he wrote to shipment. I am getting pretty well Eileen Low his English supplier along in years and there is no use that “our orchids are doing well in my buying plants and having to and our collection has been greatly wait a long while to see them improved by the wonderful Vandas bloom.” We can only hope that the which we procured in Honolulu plant arrived safely and flowered about a year ago. The varieties are before Mr. Coe’s death in March certainly amazing.” He went on, “As 1955. Today there are over 1000 I was very anxious to see Planting orchids in the main greenhouse. Fields preserved, about three years Mr. Coe would be proud. ago I deeded it to the State of New Above & opposite: A group of orchids in the Main Greenhouse, spring 2014.

10 11 THE CLARK FAMILY In the 1920s, these extremely rare deeded the property to New York pieces originally acquired by the artifacts were originally purchased by State excluding the mansion’s Clark family are an extraordinary the Clark family from the well- furniture which was sold or became coup for Planting Fields. TREASURES known interior designer and the property of his children. Coe Hall antiques dealer Charles Duveen. In is currently being refurnished in its The furniture is in unusually good In June, the Foundation purchased fifty-four rare pieces of This photo of the gallery taken the same decade Duveen was also original style. Furniture from Charles condition; many chairs have in July this year, shows about English antique, furniture from The Clark Family Treasures furnishing Coe Hall at Planting Duveen’s New York City business in sixteenth century tapestry panels of seventeen of the fifty-four newly sale at Christies in New York City. The newly acquired purchased pieces of furniture Fields for Mr. and Mrs. William the 1920s very rarely comes on the upholstery which have retained now in that room. artifacts are now on view at Coe Hall. Robertson Coe. In 1949, Mr. Coe market. Therefore, the fifty-four their vibrant colors, and the table 12 I 13 Carved chair in the style of the baroque designer Daniel Marot and detail.

and floor lamps have their original Duveen to evoke the style of old in 1926. However, Huguette, who custom made silk shades from the English country houses of the was a 104 when she died, lived the 1920s. Most of this furniture has aristocracy. last twenty years of her life at the been placed in the main living Beth Israel Medical Center in The Clark furniture room, known as the Gallery, which Manhattan, rather than any other of collection was owned by since the 1980s, when the house her several houses or apartments. became a museum, has never had American Heiress, Huguette Clark who died in 2011, enough furniture to replicate the The gallery currently houses thirty of Pair of Tiffany silver original furnishing plan by Charles and by her mother, Anna, the fifty-four pieces of furniture candelabrum and silver Duveen, as seen in photos from the wife of the “Copper King” acquired for Coe Hall from the Clark shade made by Gorham, about 1920. 1920s, now part of the Foundation’s W.A. Clark. Family Treasures sale at Christie’s, archives. Today the room glows New York City, June 18th, 2014. with the sensibility of luxury which Huguette and Anna lived in two is so central to the creation of large separate apartments at 907 romantic interiors designed by Fifth Avenue to which they moved Above: The Gallery about 1925.

14 15 SCHOOL DAYS AT PLANTING FIELDS A CAmPUS Of THE STATE UNiVERSiTY Of NEW YORK (SUNY), 1957-1971

BY fRANK J. SmiTH

until Mr. Coe’s death in 1955. Six Westbury College (1969-1971). However, today, preserved Opposite: Students gathered in the years earlier he had donated the Students from all over the world as a state historic park, and cloister garden. Coe Hall was the focal point of campus life for entire property to the State of New marveled at the grounds and now a hundred years after students during the first two years York (it was actually sold for $1) buildings they were largely free to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Coe of classes. Planting Fields Foundation Archives. with the expectation that it would roam. The end of Planting Fields’ first began to create the be used as a center for horticultural college life came in 1971 when the estate we know today, Top L: Guest speakers at an education. Planting Fields became a property was transferred to the American Studies conference Planting Fields survives as included Eleanor Roosevelt, about st ate park, as today, in 1971. Long Island State Park an exceptionally fine 1960. Planting Fields Foundation Commission, part of New York example of a great Long Archives. Beginning in 1957, with the State Parks (today known as the Island estate, complete Top R: In 1961 temporary geodesic recognition that the “baby boom” New York State Office of Parks, with its mansion, huge domes were constructed on the would lead to a need for more Recreation and Historic lawn adjacent to the Main greenhouses, and many Greenhouse, used as additional teachers, the new State University Preservation). other original buildings. office, classroom and lab space. College on Long Island at Planting Planting Fields Foundation Archives. Fields was a four year degree Mr. Coe’s expectation that his Once on the North Shore there program mainly to train high beautifully cultivated estate, Bottom R: Dining Room of Coe were hundreds of great estates, but school teachers. In 1962 the College designed for him by the famous Hall used as Coffee Shop, about Between 1957 and 1971 Planting now there is only a handful, and 1960. Students are using Mr. was integrated into the new SUNY firm of landscape architects, the Fields was a SUNY campus for a even fewer are accessible for visitors Coe's Dining Room table, which is campus at Stony Brook. Between Olmstead Brothers, would be used still in Coe Hall today. Planting series of different institutions. The to enjoy. Planting Fields, through Fields Foundation Archives. 1965 and 1969 Planting Fields was as a center for horticultural 409 acre estate had been created by William Coe’s gift to New York the Center for International Studies education never fully materialized. Mr. and Mrs. William R. Coe State, is one of these. beginning in 1913, and used by the and Conference Center, and finally family, mainly as a weekend retreat a temporary home for Old An exhibition about Planting Fields as a University was held this summer at the Manor House.

16 17 MAPPING PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS fOR THE PARK AT PLANTiNg fiELdS BY LiLLY mCgURK

Planting Fields Foundation is pertain to each specific species to Each year Planting Fields working in partnership with the help with inventory and Education department New York State Office of Parks, maintenance of our current provides exciting nature Recreation and Historic collection. This system also allows based field trips for more Preservation to establish a staff to record, preserve and share than 4,000 Long Island comprehensive Geographic historical data for various trees, students. Information System (GIS) shrubs and plants that are no database with location data for our longer present due to disease, We offer a variety of programs that living collections and park storm damage or natural end of keep teachers returning with their infrastructure. By using a Global life factors. Once this data is fully students year after year. “Playing Positioning System (GPS) the integrated into the system we will with Plants” and “Beautiful arboretum staff will be able to then be able to offer customized Butterflies,” both offered in the Geographic Information System record the location of trees and web maps on the internet allowing (GIS) database web map. spring, help to stimulate young shrubs throughout the park then each visitor to plan their visit minds whether it is by planting transfer their exact locations into knowing the precise location of vegetables to take home or searching the GIS database. Staff can then the species they are interested in for newborn caterpillars in spring create customized records that viewing while at the arboretum. catmint. In the fall, “Falling into Leaves” and “Tremendous Trees” take a close look at the seasonal changes, offer close up views of the enchanting synoptic garden, and in- depth study of the characteristics of trees and leaves. During the “Radiant Rainforest” trip which is BUFFALO ROOM RESTORATION available in both the spring and the fall, students walk through our The Buffalo Room’s mural was the mural a dramatic effect. prized main greenhouse and learn painted by artist Robert Chanler in about the world’s rainforests 1920 for William Robertson Coe Over the last fifteen years the including the tropical plants and and Mai Rogers Coe. Chanler Buffalo Room mural has been rainforest animals. For high school received much of his art training in analyzed by conservators Erin students, we offer tours of the Paris and speci alized in painted Moroney, Architectural historic Coe Mansion and for those screens and murals. He used the Conservator and Mary Betlejeski, currently studying The Great Gatsby, impasto technique on the Buffalo Painting Conservator and is being we offer a Gatsby themed tour. The Room mural which gives the monitored in terms of temperature, education department is currently beautiful Wyoming landscape a humidity and light control, all of working on developing new lessons textured relief. He also added hints which factor in preserving such an as well as public programming in For more information on our educational programming please visit our of gold to the buffalos which give important and rare mural. preparation for the opening of the Mary Betlejeski shown doing website, plantingfields.org, or contact Antigone Zaharakis, Education restoration in April 2014. new Sensory Garden. Coordinator, at 516-922-8668 or email [email protected]

18 19 COE HALL OPEN FOR THE SEASON – mARCH 29TH – SEPTEmBER 30TH / 11:30Am-3:30Pm dAiLY / WEEKENdS ONLY iN OCTOBER SELf-gUidEd ViSiTS - $4.00 fOR NON-mEmBERS/fREE fOR mEmBERS / PARK OPEN dAiLY 9:00Am-5:00Pm

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19TH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24TH, 2014 OCTOBER Murder, Madness, and Poe A Night at the Mansion: THROUgH 1:00pm – 2:00pm, Coe Hall Sleepover at Coe Hall dECEmBER Free with $4 admission to Coe Hall 7:00pm (Friday) – fALL & WiNTER SEPTEmBER No reservations necessary. $8 parking fee at 8:00am (Saturday) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2014 CALENdAR Of main gate. Members FREE $30 Non-Members / $20 Members CALENdAR Of Beethoven Celebration at Coe Hall – Concert & Lecture 1:00pm concert, 2:00pm lecture, 3:00pm concert Haunting tales and poems from Edgar Allen Join us for an evening of fun and FREE with $4 admission to Coe Hall ($8 parking fee). Members FREE EVENTS Poe’s best known works with musical mystery! Enjoy an ice cream bar, EVENTS interludes, performed by michael flashlight tour, late night movie and No reservations necessary Bertolini as Poe, the 19th century then its lights out for a sleepover at A delightful concert of Beethoven performed by Jack Kohl, a classically master of the macabre. Written and Coe Hall. Bagels will be served on trained pianist who has performed Beethoven at the American Landmarks directed by david Houston. Come…if Saturday morning. Children must festival and Paul Hall at Julliard, and Paul Statsky, Brooklyn native and you dare! for more information have chaperone. for reservations Julliard trained violinist with the Asheville Symphony and governor’s contact Jennifer Lavella at (516) 922- contact michelle Benes (516) 922- School for the Arts. Works include “Se Vuol Ballare” variations, Beethoven 8678 or [email protected] 8678. Space is limited. Sonata in G Op. 96, Sonata in A for violin and piano by Cesar franck, with a lecture in between the musical performances discussing Beethoven’s work. for more information contact Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or [email protected] SATURDAY DECEMBER 6TH, 2014 Planting Fields Foundation’s “DECK THE HALLS” BENEFIT 6:30pm – 9:30pm at Coe Hall SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2014 Cocktail buffet, live music, and silent auction will be part of this annual special evening Traditional English Choral Concert by the Long Island Madrigals to celebrate the holidays at Planting fields. for details, reservations, or sponsorship 1:00pm at Coe Hall / FREE with $4 admission to Coe Hall ($8 parking fee a park gate) opportunities, contact Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or [email protected] Members FREE / No reservations necessary Join us in the great Hall as this enchanting Long island based choral group sing early traditional songs to remind us of the Elizabethan interiors that interior designer Charles duveen was drawn to. This is the last weekend to take in the exhibition The Fabulous FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH, 2014 Interiors of Elsie de Wolfe and Charles Duveen and this concert is a perfect season’s end. for 10th Annual Tree Lighting and Visit from Santa more information contact Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or [email protected] FREE Admission! FREE Activities! No parking fee! 6:00pm – 8:00pm / Tree will be lit at 6:00pm sharp! delight in all kinds of holiday excitement at Planting fields including caroling by the Barber Shop Quartet, Hot Cocoa and refreshments at the Hay Barn/Visitor Center, Coe Hall decorated for the season will be open for self-guided visits. Visit with Santa until 7:30pm in the Hay Barn!

OCTOBER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13TH AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 2014 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4TH Holiday Weekend at Coe Hall AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2014 $10 admission fee / FREE for members and children under 12 / 11:00am – 4:00pm Fall Family Festival Weekend Experience Coe Hall mansion decorated in holiday style. See Santa, make a old- 11:00am – 5:00pm, rain or shine / $20 per vehicle fashioned gingerbread house, listen to the madrigal Singers, and watch Frosty the Snow Man by Plaza Theatrical Productions in the great Hall. Show times for Frosty the Snow Halloween trick or treat and costume parade, live music with man is 2:30pm, both days and included in admission fee. the das Liederhosen german Polka Band, garden games, pumpkins for sale, pony rides, pumpkin decorating station, Gingerbread House Making Sessions potato sack races, watercolor demonstrations, bounce house, 11:00am – 4:00pm at Coe Hall (in the former servants’ dining room) food and beer tastings (in the hay barn courtyard) of autumn *Every hour on the hour, 10 children per session, first come, first served provided by Perwinkles Café, dahlia garden open and Coe Hall Cookies and juice while you make your own gingerbread house to take home. open. Contact Jennifer Lavella (516) 922-8678 or [email protected] for more information. DAIlY, ExCEPT CHRISTMAS DAY Poinsettia & Cyclamen Greenhouse Display 10:00am - 4:00pm daily in the Main Greenhouse

20 21 Enjoy a complimentary FALL/WINTER glass of wine at every JANUARY concert thanks to CONCERT SERIES the generosity of THROUgH MUSICAT THE MANSION our sponsors. APRiL 2014 - 2015 CALENdAR Of 6:30pm at Coe Hall / $20 Non-Members / $10 Members / No parking fee EVENTS For tickets contact Antigone Zaharakis (516) 922-8668 or [email protected]

Ainslie Street Vibes New York Virtuosi The Brooklyn Sugar Stompers

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 2014 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, 2014 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH, 2015 SAVE SATURDAY, JANUARY 24TH AND SUNDAY, JANUARY 25TH Ainslie Street Vibes New York Virtuosi The Brooklyn Sugar Stompers THE Paradise at Planting Fields Weekend Ainslie Street Vibes is a collective of A chamber ensemble founded by violist The Brooklyn Sugar Stompers perform dATE! 10:00am – 4:00pm rain or shine / FREE Brooklyn based musicians that Peter Kiral in 2012. The group has Hot Jazz and Blues, inspired from the combine modern-chic style with top performed at various concert venues in Prohibition Era 1920’s “Jazz Age” Come and enjoy a touch of paradise at Planting fields in our main greenhouse, quality music entertainment rooted in New York City and Washington d.C. through the “Swing Era” of the 1930's! featuring live steel drum music, and other programs and events throughout the weekend. the vintage jazz tradition. This featuring the finest musicians, New The vocalist and bandleader, miss Call Jennifer at (516) 922-8678 for more information. matchless ensemble of top tier York Virtuosi is devoted to revitalizing Cara (dineen), often portrays a flapper musicians is able to breathe new life standard and also lesser known works from a bygone era, instilling new life into classic covers while embracing the in the classical canonic repertoire, into dusty old tunes that were pressed timeless tradition of every song. bringing old and new compositions to onto 100 year old vinyl. Camellia Wine for this concert generously life. Wine for this concert generously Wine for this concert generously donated by Bottles and Cases. donated by Jason’s . House Weekend donated by Bottles and Cases.

SAT., APRIl 25TH AND Jason and Elysa Hochman Konkoction Canta Libre SUN., APRIl 26TH, 2015 Arbor Day FRIDAY, NOvEMBER 7TH, 2014 FRIDAY, JANUARY 16TH, 2015 FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH, 2015 Family Festival Jason and Elysa Hochman Konkoction Canta Libre 10:00am – 5:00pm Jason and Elysa Hochman, a married Contagious melodies with a blend of silky Canta Libre was founded in 2002 by $20 per vehicle couple, are an acoustic guitar world smooth jazz and island infused sound. flutist Sally Shorrock to foster the Rain or shine fusion duo specializing in Spanish, Chris, on drums, is a graduate of the New performance and enjoyment of music Live music with Peat moss & flamenco and classical style guitar. School who studied jazz and other styles. specifically written for flute, harp and the fertilizers, performances, Together, Jay & Lee sound as one, Al, the guitarist, has toured with rock strings. Considered experts in this children’s tree climb and lots creating an incredible and powerful bands and continues to record and work ephemeral, rare style of chamber music, of activities for children of all atmosphere. Jay and Lee's repertoire with various artists. mika, the vocalist,s i Canta Libre was recently featured at The ages to enjoy! for more SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND AND SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD consists of original compositions as well a dynamic powerhouse with her own solo American Harp Society 50th Anniversary information, contact Jennifer Camellia House Weekend as covers by the gipsy Kings, Paco de R&B career. Rick on the keyboard and sax National Conference. The ensemble’s Lavella at (516) 922-8678. 10:00am – 4:00pm / rain or shine Lucia, Paco Peña, Ottmar Liebert and and Howard Jay on bass and vocals bring first Cd was designated “the best new other great artists. the sound of the islands, and the funk U.S. release” by BBC Music Magazine in Come and enjoy our annual Camellia House weekend featuring live music, Wine for this concert generously and soul. march of 2011. walking tours of the Camellia House, activities for children. Coe Hall is open donated by Bedell Cellars. Wine for this concert generously Wine for this concert generously for self-guided visits. donated by Empire Merchants. donated by Planting Fields Foundation.

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A & B: Back to the 50’s Party at the Manor House, June. C&D: The Planting Fields Foundation’s Special Luncheon & Art Lecture: Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity by Gloria Groom, June. E&F: Summer Concert in the Park: River of Dream, a Billy Joel Tribute, July.

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Henry B. Joyce PLANTiNg fiELd fOUNdATiON’S Executive Director A GIFT OF DECORATIVE Tel: 516-922-0479 ART OBJECTS PLANNED GIVING [email protected] Michelle Benes fROm THE ESTATE Of CAROL m. dUBOiS Membership Coordinator Tel: 516-922-8682 Your donations help ensure the destination for visitors and [email protected] ongoing preservation of the maintain the park as one of the BY HENRY B. JOYCE Arboretum and the continuation of most beautiful places on Long Andrea Crivello Curatorial Assistant our interpretive programs. Planting Island. [email protected] This summer the Foundation was pleased to accept a very Fields depends on its supporters to kind donation of several decorative art objects from the ensure that the great mansion, Coe Different Ways to Give Elsa Eisenberg estate of Carol M. DuBois. They include an exceptionally fine Group Tours and Volunteer Coordinator Hall, and the magnificent Olmsted Tel: 516-922-8670 Bequests, Charitable Remainder Dutch eighteenth century longcase clock, chairs, tables, Park continue to flourish. Our [email protected] Trusts, Charitable Lead Trusts, Life linen, lace, beds, vases and fireplace bellows. promise is to be good stewards of Insurance Policies and Beneficiary Laraine Giardina those contributions, and to Finance Manger Designation. For more information continue to implement important Tel: 516-922-8672 please contact Michelle Benes, projects to preserve and interpret [email protected] Membership Coordinator at Planting Fields. It is only with your Longcase clocks were first invented figures are recorded as flying from 516-922-8682 or Jennifer Lavella support that we can continue to Director of Marketing and Special Events in England about 1670 using the the skies onto the prows of email:[email protected] make Planting Fields a wonderful Tel: 516-922-8678 new anchor escarpment mechanism victorious ships, as in the great [email protected] with a long, weight driven marble sculpture of the Winged pendulum, hence the tall thin Victory of Samothrace in the Louvre. Lilly McGurk Development Officer shape of the clock's casing. Until The trumpets refer to the concept Tel: 516-922-8676 the early 20th century longcase of announcing and celebrating [email protected] clocks were the world's most victory with music and may also Rosemarie Papayanopulous accurate time keeping technology. have referred to the chimes in the Librarian clock. Victory is also the god of Tel: 516-922-8631 The carved and gilded figures on speed which is usually measured by the top of this newly donated clock reference to time. Gwendolyn L. Smith Curator represent Atlas and two Victories. Tel: 516-922-8680 Atlas is shown carrying a celestial The Victories, with their illusion of [email protected] globe because in Greek mythology flight, are typical of sculpture in Antigone Zaharakis he held up the celestial spheres. the baroque style and the bombé Education Coordinator/Gift Shop Manager The earliest method of telling the shape of the clock's base is Tel: 516-922-8668 time was to observe the changing distinctive of seventeenth and [email protected]

shadows cast by the sun, hence the eighteenth century Dutch Evergreen is published by traditional association with Atlas furniture. This type of clock Planting fields foundation. and time. remained in demand for well over Copyright © 2014 one hundred years and was revived graphic design by Amy Herling [email protected] The clock also features the winged in the nineteenth century. Some are figures of Victory (or in Greek less elaborate than others, and Planting fields foundation MISSION STATEMENT mythology, Nike), and they some are gilded all over! This 1395 Planting fields Road Planting fields foundation collaborates with the New P.O. Box 660 originally held trumpets, which are version, which is over nine and a York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Oyster Bay, NY 11771 now lost (they will be replaced with half feet tall, looks very handsome Preservation t o preserve and interpret Planting fields Dutch tall-case clock, 18th century, Arboretum State Historic Park as a premier Long island www.plantingfields.org donated by the estate of Carol M. DuBois. replicas). In Greek mythology these in the mansion's front hall. gold Coast estate and arboretum by providing Tel: 516-922-9210 educational and enriching experiences. fax: 516-922-9226

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