Those readers who have been following our postings on gardening will be interested by the latest issue of the International Journal of Faith and Culture, Second Spring, which is entitled In the Garden. It has articles by figures such as Cardinal Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan and Thomas More College’s own Dr Christopher Blum. Second [...]
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Nancy Feeman is working with us on the development of an English garden at the Thomas More College’s new Groton campus development in Massachusetts. She describes a recent trip to the UK and a visit to one of the great botanical gardens there, in Wales, called Bodnant Garden. She writes: During the past couple of [...]
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Do Laurel and Hardy have something to teach us about colour perspective? The words of garden designer Gertrude Jeckyll seem to confirm the words of the American comedians. Laurel and Hardy sang about the blue-ridged mountains. But were they seeing blue mountains or green mountains in Virginia? When learning to paint landscapes I was taught [...]
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The English garden designer who painted her ideas in plants, and thought like a 17th-century baroque artist. I recently visited Glebe House, Woodbury, CT to see a small garden designed by the famous English garden designer and writer Gertrude Jeckyll. Gertrude Jeckyll is an English garden designer whose long life spanned the turn of the [...]
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I am ashamed to admit it, but when I arrived here in the US, I knew relatively little about the founding fathers of the country. Most of what I knew came from the HBO series John Adams, which focussed on the life of the second president of the United States. As it turned out, I now [...]
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Landowners have a duty to leave some food for the poor and give people access to get it. Or that’s what it looks like at least. Here are two scriptural passages taken from the Office of Readings (part of the Liturgy of the Hours) that caught my eye when I read them. One is from [...]
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The Way of Beauty is managed, maintained, and, unless otherwise stated, written by David Clayton. David is an Englishman living in New Hampshire, USA. He is an artist, teacher, published writer and broadcaster who holds a permanent post as Artist-in-Residence and Lecturer in Liberal Arts at the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. The Way of Beauty program, which is offered at TMC, focuses on the link between Catholic culture, with a special emphasis on art, and the liturgy. David was received into the Church in London in 1993.
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