Posted in Garden Staff, Message from the Executive Director on Mar 18th, 2013
by Shane Tippett, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Can you remember being 10 and hurtling up your favorite climbing tree? Can you still feel the rough bark under your hands and the way the sturdy anchor of the tree’s trunk gave way to smaller and smaller branches until it all swayed giddily under your weight? How [...]
Posted in Children's Garden, Education, Garden Staff on Mar 5th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden The first time I really got to know Allison Kiesler, I was a parent on a field trip with my child here at Lewis Ginter in the Children’s Garden. Yes, I work here, but until I followed my 5-year-old’s kindergarten class around on a field trip, I [...]
Posted in Garden Staff on Feb 20th, 2013
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Recently, the American Public Gardens Association produced a series of interviews with botanical gardens across the country. Since you, our blog readers, are some of our biggest fans and supporters, I thought that you might enjoy reading a bit about the Garden’s social media. Personally, I’ve enjoyed [...]
Posted in Garden Staff on Feb 19th, 2013
by Shane Tippett, Executive Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden On February 1, 2012, Frank Robinson celebrated his 20th anniversary as Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s leader. Such milestones in an extraordinarily successful career usually invite a series of “before and after” comparisons, but a couple years ago Frank himself edited a pictorial history of the Garden on [...]
Posted in Garden Staff on Feb 12th, 2013
By Beth Monroe, Public Relations and Marketing Director, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I was in the local library the other day and saw the book All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps by Dave Isay. I picked it up because I’ve become a fan of StoryCorps ever since they visited Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden almost [...]
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