EVERgreenPLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION FALL/WINTER 2012 NEWSLETTERPLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM, OYSTER BAY, NEW YORK

Fall at Planting Fields is a glorious season when the park and its gardens are filled with a myriad of colors ofevery hue. There is a richness of scents and textures in flowers, berries and foliage that is extraordinary.Maple, oak, birch, beech and sassafras species offer different yellows, oranges and maroons. Shrubs in theSynoptic Garden and around Coe Hall provide a variety of fruit for migrating birds. The Dahlia Garden(above) is at peak form during the fall season.

The Dahlia Garden in the Fall

PHOTO: BILL BARASH

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MISSION STATEMENTPlanting Fields Foundationcollaborates with the New YorkState Office of Parks, Recreationand Historic Preservation topreserve and interpret PlantingFields Arboretum State Historic Park as a premier Long Island GoldCoast estate and arboretum byproviding educational and enriching experiences.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Michael D. CoeChairman

Gib Chapman President

Sarah CoeVice President

Peter TillesVice President

Peter TiberioTreasurer

Margaret HayesSecretary

Renee B. BradleyG. Morgan BrowneHal DavidsonSharon L. EmmanuelRobert FoschiRichard W. GibneyAnne Coe HayesConstance HaydockBruce HerlichCount Ernesto Vitetti

Ex OfficioHenry B. JoyceExecutive Director, Planting Fields Foundation

Vincent A. SimeoneDirector, Planting Fields ArboretumState Historic Park

We warmly welcome...

Planting Fields Foundation announces two new Trusteesto its Board, Constance Haydock and Bob Foschi.

Constance T. Haydock

CeCe Haydock is a graduate of Princeton Universityand received her Master’s degree in LandscapeArchitecture from SUNY School of EnvironmentalScience and Forestry. After working for the New YorkCity Parks Department, she was employed byInnocenti and Webel in Locust Valley, NY, beforestarting her own practice, Constance T. Haydock,

Landscape Architect, P.C. For the past 25 years, she has been working onpredominately residential projects, as well as municipal parks andcommercial sites. Since completing her research on Edith Wharton andRoman villas in 2007 at the American Academy in Rome, she has lecturedon the topic for Planting Fields, Princeton University, Hutton House andnumerous colleges and garden clubs. Currently, CeCe is LEED (Leadershipin Energy and Environmental Design) accredited, and is enlarging herpractice to focus on sustainability and “green” building. She is a nationaland chapter member of the US Green Building Council, as well as amember of the American Society of Landscape Architects, where sheserves as an officer for the professional sustainability group. Helping totest guidelines for the first national rating system, the Sustainable SitesInitiative (SITES), for landscape construction, she is the SITES pilotproject manager for the Hempstead Plains Education Center in GardenCity. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at Long Island Universityand teaches classes periodically at the New York Botanical Gardens.

Robert Foschi

Bob Foschi co-founded the construction company M. Foschi & Sons, Inc. in 1976. After receiving hisprofessional engineering license in 1986, he was ableto expand outside of general contracting and offerclients an option for design. A graduate of ColumbiaUniversity, School of Engineering, he is a recipient ofthe Jewel Garrets Award in Civil Engineering, and

President of the American Society of Civil Engineering Chapter atColumbia University. Bob has vast experience in designing, engineering,and building for both commercial and residential projects. Bob and hiswife Margaret have been married for 35 years. They have resided in OldBrookville for the past 31 years and have four children. Bob currentlyserves on the Board of Trustees for The Foster Foundation, is on theAdvisory Council for the Mentoring Partnership of Long Island and is apast board member of Friends Academy.

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Dahlias have been a feature at

Planting Fields at least since the 1920s when they

appear in profusion in many historic photos of Coe

Hall interiors taken by Mattie Hewitt about 1922,

shortly after the mansion was built. In the Gallery

are four arrangements and four more in the Great

Hall (see photo). There are four additional dahlia arrangements in other rooms, twelve

altogether; dahlias are the dominant flowers in a group of ten historic room photos.

The History of the Dahlia atPlanting Fields

Patricia Alice Taren Grove Millennium

LolitaWyns Mystique

Kelvin Floodlight Scaur Swinton

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Dahlias are native to Central Americaand Mexico where it is the nationalflower. In 1571 the Spanish experton medicinal botany, FranciscoHernández, who became thepersonal physician to King Philip ofSpain, left for Mexico and thePhilippines where he collectedspecimens for seven years. Threeindigenous artists accompanied him.One of them, Francisco Dominguezmade at least three drawings ofdahlias. The entire manuscriptrecording the expedition, translatedinto Latin, was not published until1651 in Rome as Rerum MedicarumNovae Hispaniae Thesaurus Seu NovaPlantarium, Animalium et MineraliuimMexicanorum Historia. One of thedahlias from a copy of the book atthe John Carter Brown Library(Brown University, Providence RhodeIsland) is shown here.

In Europe, sustained interest indahlias did not become establisheduntil the late eighteenth centurywhen in 1776 they were namedposthumously for Anders Dahl, oneof Linnaeus’s students. The firstcuttings of dahlias did not arrive inSpain from Mexico until 1789 andthe plants were first grown inEngland in 1804. The doublevarieties first bloomed in Belgiumabout 1830 and after that there wasvery little interest in single forms.1840 is the earliest date that dahliasappear in an American nurserycatalog. They had been importedfrom England and had been grownin the garden of Mr. G. C. Thornburnof Astoria, New York.

The dahlia is genetically unstable; ithas eight sets of chromosomesinstead of the conventional two,and is therefore predisposed todiversity. A great moment in dahliahistory occurred in 1872 when adouble red form with reverse quilledflowers appeared. The plant’sendless source of novelty has meantthat for over two hundred years anaverage of more than one hundred

new cultivars have been annuallyintroduced.

The history of the dahlia at PlantingFields dates back to the estate era ofthe property. Mr. Coe admireddahlias because of their bold textureand rich colors. In the mid-1980sPaul Callahan, a dedicated volunteerturned employee, reintroduceddahlias to Planting Fields. Raisedbeds were constructed near theCarriage House in rows to allowvisitors to view dahlias in a display

setting. This garden was maintainedsolely by volunteers under hisdirection. With Paul’s sad passing in1995, efforts were made to redesigna commemorative garden that wouldembody his passion for dahlias in agarden setting while educating thevisiting public.

In 1997, construction began on anew garden. Elements of thesurrounding hardscape were echoed

in the garden so that it would blendinto its surroundings. The gardenwas designed by Dwight Andrewswith input from arboretum staff,Mid Island Dahlia Society membersand Peter Tilles, trustee of thePlanting Fields Foundation. Theimplementation of the garden wasboth labor intensive and costly. Theconstruction of the garden wasgenerously donated by Peter Tilles.

In the spring of 1998 the garden wascompleted and ready for planting.The Mid Island Dahlia Societyoffered to unconditionally maintainand develop the garden as one of thelargest and most spectacular dahliacollections in the Northeast. Underthe direction of Steve Nowotarski,Mid Island Dahlia Society membersdonate nearly 2000 hours a year ofexpertise to growing 400 dahliaplants of show and garden quality. In2011, a breast cancer awareness pinkdahlia bed was added as the centralbed. The beautiful pink dahlias aresurrounded by a collection of pinkpetunias generously donated eachyear by White Flower Farm. As theyears go by new types and varietieshave been added. The latest additionis a collection of low growing dahliasthat are fully double. These dahliasdo not require staking and areavailable in a wide range of colors. Inaddition, Mid Island Dahlia Societyis beginning to build a collection ofantique dahlias over 75 years old.This collection will show theevolution of modern dahlias.

The members of Mid Island DahliaSociety are at the garden everyWednesday morning 9am -11am.Visitors are invited to stop by to viewthe garden and ask questions. TheMid Island Dahlia Societyacknowledges the outstandingcooperation of the staff of PlantingFields and the Director, VincentSimeone. Over the years thisblending of State and private effortshas been the key to the success ofthis outstanding garden.

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The History of the Dahlia at Planting Fields (continued)

Rerum Medicarum 1651

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2012 Internship Program a Great SuccessBY VINCENT A. SIMEONE

Since 1987, Planting Fields hasadministered an internship programthat offers hands on fieldexperience for six to eight studentsin the horticultural and landscapearchitecture fields. Each groupprovides their own uniqueness andcharacter to the program. This year,our eight students have clearlymade their positive presence felt byimproving the grounds, gardensand greenhouse collections.Weeding, pruning, mulching,removing invasive plants, plantingas well as watering and maintainingrare and unusual plant collectionswere the everyday norm for theinterns. In addition, the internsassisted the maintenance staff withrepairs to the irrigation system atcritical times.

Part of the intern experience wasfor students to participate in weeklyfield trips to the best gardens andhorticultural institutions that LongIsland and New York City have tooffer. They visited private andpublic gardens, universities,botanical gardens and arboreta,nurseries, growers and uniquelydesigned landscaped grounds ofsome of the most impressiveproperties in the area. Not onlydoes this opportunity educate theinterns in sound horticulturalpractices, but also offers them anopportunity to network withrespected professionals in the field.

Our interns this year were from allover the country and from diversebackgrounds. They are: Diane

Blakely, University of Delaware;Kevin Campbell, SUNY ESF; AlyssaGarcia, Cornell University; MattKallen, SUNY-ESF; Sam Lear,Farmingdale State University;Raymond Magliulo, Eckerd College;Kalle Ostendorf, SUNY-ESF and JeffSiegler, University of Arkansas. Theinternship is funded and supportedby the Planting Fields Foundationand its board members. Thearboretum is extremely grateful forthis opportunity to employ suchenthusiastic and hardworkinginterns. Often, several of ourinterns elect to stay on as longerterm employees once theirinternship has concluded and wehope that several of our studentsthis year will do that.

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With Great Appreciation to all our Volunteers BY ELSA EISENBERG, GROUP TOUR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

If you subscribe to the tenet thatvolunteering is a valuablecommodity in our society, and if youcould place a tangible value on that,one could conclude that PlantingFields is a very wealthy communitythanks to the more than 200dedicated individuals who donatetheir time and energy to help makethis property the wonderful placethat it is.

Our many volunteers have not onlygiven a part of themselves, but havegained a feeling of satisfaction andgratification of doing somethingvery worthwhile for the benefit ofothers. Through publicity as well asword-of-mouth, we continue toattract new volunteers each year,and so our volunteer programcontinues to grow.

This year Harold Fishkin iscelebrating 30 years with PlantingFields. It was quite serendipitousthat Hal even discovered PlantingFields. He was in the vicinity toattend a business meeting andbecause he had some spare time, hedecided to explore the arboretum.The first building he saw was theLaundry House and went inside.There he met someone who gavehim a volunteer application form,and the rest, as they say, is history.

Initially, Hal became a Coe Hall tourguide as well as a garden guide; hewas a board member of PlantingFields Foundation for several years,and belonged to the Friends ofPlanting Fields organization. Halhas been involved with andsupported many different projectsand events throughout the years.He has always been willing to do

anything and everything he could tohelp lend support when it wasneeded - he even helped to fix atoilet once! Hal currently spendsMondays at the reception deskenthusiastically welcoming visitorsand providing them withinformation.

Oh yes, Hal has another veryimportant asset – his wife, Rhoda,who became a tour guide one yearafter he joined the volunteerprogram, and she, too, is stillvolunteering today.

We are, indebted to Hal for all thathe has done and continues to do.Our thanks and gratitude to thisspecial man who has a trueunderstanding of what it means tobe a volunteer.

Garden Gift ShopSo far we have had a wonderful season at the gift shop! I would like toofficially welcome our new volunteers, Valerie Canadeo, Gail Friedman,Thea Chandross and Barbara Casale, to the shop. Thank you to all ourwonderful shop volunteers who worked on Arbor Day weekend, it was agreat success! Also, a warm thanks to all of our volunteers, you all do afabulous job and help out immensely. As always, all Planting Fieldsvolunteers and employees receive a 15% discount and members receive a

10% at the giftshop. We havesome beautifulhostess gifts foryour next gettogether. Wehope to see yousoon!

AntigoneZaharakis, Gift Shop Manager

Rhoda and Hal Fishkin

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The Gallery, about 1965, when used by SUNY

The Gallery, Coe Hall, about 1925

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Nearly a thousand large houses andestates were built on Long Islandbetween the Civil War and WorldWar II. Coe Hall is one of the finestconstructed in that great tradition.Today only a small portion of theseestates survive and very few havetheir original mansion, parkland,gardens and greenhouses. Coe Hall,therefore, is an extraordinarysurvivor among hundreds of lostmansions, its interiorsrepresentative of an ambitious eraof estate building when LongIsland’s Gold Coast had manymore great houses than Newport,Rhode Island or anywhere else inthe United States. Planting Fields isin public ownership and thusprotected in perpetuity, and the siteplays an ever increasingly vital rolein the cultural life of Long Island.

The interior design firm, Charles ofLondon, with offices in New YorkCity, specialized in English Tudorrevival rooms. They created a groupof rooms for Coe Hall that are rareand extensively documentedsurvivors of their work. The rooms’

presentation and interpretation inthe 21st century are therefore ofsignificant importance.

Mr. and Mrs. Coe’s choice of anElizabethan style house may wellhave been prompted by the factthat Mr. Coe had grown up inEngland. It is also possible that hewas influenced by a pervasiveinterest in this country at that timeof Tudor revival architecture forsuburban and country houses.This movement began in Britainwith the popularity of the romanticnovels of Sir Walter Scott. Scott’sown house, Abbotsford (1818-1824), mostly in the Tudor style,was widely admired and publicized.In 1912, during this later period ofinterest in Tudor architecture, AllenW. Jackson published his influentialAmerican book, The Half-TimberHouse, in which he declared, “In thehalf-timber houses of England wereborn, lived and died our own greatgrandfathers…they are ourarchitectural heritage, ourhomesteads, and hold animportant place in our building

history.” Thus, Tudor style housesrepresented stability and heldintimations of dynasty.

The magazine largely responsible forpromoting a new taste for oldhouses was Country Life, founded in1897 and published in London. Itwas widely read by Americansinvolved with building large countryhouses. The magazine’s firstfeatured house on January 1st,1897, was a stone and half-timbered Tudor manor, BaddesleyClinton in Warwickshire (nowowned by the National Trust) thathas many elements, includingornamental brick chimneys that arefeatured at Coe Hall. There is noevidence that Baddesley was aspecific source for Coe Hall, but it isnoteworthy that Country Life wenton to publish many Tudor houses inthe ten years before Coe Hall wasbuilt. The magazine glamorized theEnglish countryside and its manors,and made successful businessmenlong to live in them. Indeed, theweekly publication worshipedeverything English; houses, gardens,

After William R. Coe died in 1955, Coe Hall and other buildings on the

estate were used as a college. Most of the mansion’s original furnishings were removed

from the house by his widow and his four children. But beginning in the late 1970s, in

a program led by Planting Fields Foundation Chairman, Michael D. Coe, the mansion

has been shown to visitors as a historic home. Most of the ground floor rooms and just

two second floor bedrooms, have been extensively refurnished. A large group of

original pieces of furniture, 82 in all, have been returned, and over 250 artifacts have

been acquired by the Foundation over a thirty year period, providing a very good sense

of how the house looked in its heyday.

Refurnishing Coe Hall for the 21st CenturyBY HENRY B. JOYCE

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sports, particularly horse sports—fox hunting, polo, steeple-chasingand thoroughbred racing, whichMr. Coe and his familyparticipated in.

Hand in hand with the period’srenewed commitment to Tudorarchitecture, was a tremendousinterest by designers and their clientsin high quality craftsmanship,particularly in decorative stone andwood carvings. Because of this CoeHall has an abundance of finecarving inside and out. Three of thebest examples, the half scale, threedimensional figures on the mainstaircase landing, have sadlydisappeared, but several groups ofrelief carving survive. Another aspectof this revival in craftsmanship atCoe Hall is the exceptionally finedecorative metal work, in bothexecution and design, by Samuel

Yellin, the distinguishedPhiladelphia-based metal worker.Equally important at Coe Hall, andalso reflecting a renewed passion forcraftsmanship of the past, is thehigh quality and abundance of oldand restored figurative stained glassin the mansion’s windows.

The rooms of Coe Hall withtheir original furnishings,which were brought togetherin the early 1920s, are in astyle that is a directreflection of a newly createdand intensively pursuedhistory of old English roomsand the history of Englishfurniture. This was in fact awholly new re-discovery andre-evaluation of antiqueEnglish furniture.

This history was begun in the1890s by curators at the Victoriaand Albert Museum, Britain’snational design museum, and byfurniture collectors and dealers.One of the earliest period roomsexhibited at the V&A Museum in1894 was a Tudor paneledchamber removed from the OldPalace at Bromley-By-Bow (inwhat is now the East End ofLondon). Once on public displaythe room was used by a number ofinterior design firms as aconvenient model to bereproduced for their clients whowere building Tudor revival houseswith paneled rooms like the den atCoe Hall. Between 1894 and 1898Percy Macquoid published hisHistory of English Furniture, the firstsystematic history of its type.Macquoid was a West End theaterset designer and a furniture

Byrne House interior, ca. 1912

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collector. In 1896, the firstexhibition of old English furniturewas held at the Bethnal GreenMuseum and featured a group ofElizabethan court cupboards suchas the ones photographed in thedining room at Coe Hall duringthe 1920s.

In comparing Coe Hall’s interiorswith those of its predecessor atPlanting Fields, the Byrnemansion which was destroyed byfire in 1918, it becomes clear thatthe decorative aesthetic in therebuilt house, Coe Hall,represents a distinct change intaste. The Byrne house photos, ofabout 1912, show in thetraditional hall living-room amedley of furniture in differentstyles; for instance there is aCharles II baroque style arm chairfacing the fireplace, a French,

Louis XV, rococo style bergere, inthe left middle distance, and anEnglish George III, neo-classicalstyle chair on the right. This is ahighly eclectic mix, and none ofthese pieces is actually of itstime—they are all revivals of the17th and 18th century originals.

In comparison, at Coe Hallabout ten years later, thefurniture in the den(excluding the upholsteredfurniture) is actually 16thcentury in origin, like theoak court cupboard. Those pieces that are not of the period are veryclose reproductions, almost indistinguishablefrom the originals, in shapeand finish.

The commitment by Charles ofLondon, to use original or closelyoriginal furniture is pervasivethroughout the house. This newtaste for a certain level of puritycame about under the influenceof Percy Macquiod’s four volumeHistory of English Furniture. The firstvolume had classified 16thcentury oak furniture for the firsttime ever, and the book waswidely read and used by interiordesigners for inspiration, as atCoe Hall.

This brief account of the originsof Coe Hall’s fine rooms is takenfrom a larger document, “A Planfor the Furnishing of Coe Hall”,that will lead over the next threeyears to the re-interpretation andrefurnishing of four bedrooms,including those of William R. Coeand his wife, Mai Rogers Coe.

The Den, Coe Hall, ca. 1925

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CALENDAR OCTOBERFall Family Festival WeekendSaturday, October 20th & Sunday, October 21st, 2012 11:00am – 5:00pm Rain or Shine / $15 per vehicleCoe Hall Open – Self Guided VisitsHalloween Trick or Treat, CostumeParade, Bounce House, Pumpkins onSale & Pumpkin Painting, WaterColor Demonstrations in the DahliaGarden, Chamber PayersInternational–Live Brass QuintetBand, Live music with Ready in 10Cover Band, Potato Sack Races.

COE HALL OPEN FOR THE SEASON – DAILY MARCH 31ST – SEPTEMBER 30TH and WEEKENDS ONLY IN OCTOBER 11:30AM – 3:30PMSELF GUIDED VISITS - $3.50 FOR NON-MEMBER/FREE FOR MEMBER • PARK OPEN EVERY DAY 9:00AM – 5:00PM

James Deering’s Miami Mansion, VizcayaLecture by Henry B. JoyceSunday, October 28, 20122:30pm Coe HallFree with admissionHenry Joyce’s illustrated lecture willtrace the history of this extraordinarywinter retreat built in 1916 on BiscayneBay. The lecture will cover theRenaissance villa origins of both themansion and its magnificent garden, toits remarkable survival today. Themansion’s 40 rooms include some ofthe finest interiors of the period.Although reduced in acreage today, itslandscape setting with citrus groves,canals and fountains retains much ofits original magic.

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OF EVENTSOCTOBER - DECEMBER 2012

DECEMBERDeck the Halls Annual Benefit GalaSaturday, December 1, 2012 / Coe Hall Mansion6:30pm – 9:30pm / Reservations Required: $150 per ticketLive Music with Mitch Kahn, Silent Auction, Cocktail Buffet, andValet Parking. For more information or sponsorship opportunitiescontact Jennifer Lavella at (516) 922-8678 or emailjlavella@plantingfields.org. Limited reservations.

NOVEMBERYoung Artists At Coe HallMansion - Sybarite5Co-Produced by Planting Fields Foundation and Concert Artist Guild

Sunday, November 11, 20122:30pm Coe Hall$25 Non Members$20 Members, Seniors and StudentsSarah Whitney, violin, Angela Pickett,viola, Laura Metcalf, cello, LouisLevitt, bass, Sami Merdinia, violin.Sybarite5 has taken audiences aroundthe US by storm. From Radiohead toMozart, this group of talented,diverse musicians has changed theperception of chamber musicperformance.

Call Lilly McGurk at (516)922-8676or email emcgurk@plantingfields.org.

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DECEMBEREighth Annual Tree Lighting & Visit From SantaFriday, December 7th, 2012 / 5:00pm – 8:00pmDelight in all kinds of holiday excitement whetheryou’ve been naughty or nice! Santa arrives at 6:00pmto light a magnificent evergreen tree. All activities areFREE, Coe Hall Mansion open. For more informationplease call (516)922-8678 or (516)922-8676.

Holiday Weekend at Coe HallSaturday, December 8th & Sunday, December 9th, 201210:00am – 4:00pm / Coe Hall MansionExperience Coe Hall Mansion decorated in holiday style.See Santa, Storyteller Jonathan Kruk & song-makerAndrea Sadler lead the holiday merry making at Coe Hall! Non-Members $10 per person; Members & Children 12 and under are free. All activities andperformances are free with $10 admission. No Parking Fee!

Poinsettia & Cyclamen Greenhouse Display10:00am – 4:00pm DailyThe Main Greenhouse will display traditional Poinsettiasand Cyclamens. Great holiday gifts available at theGarden Gift Shop inside the Visitor Center 11:00am –4:00pm daily. Visitors can enjoy a delicious meal at theGarden Café at the Visitors Center located in the HayBarn. This café, catered by Periwinkles, featuressandwiches, salads, soups and other homemade items.Café hours for December are Saturday and Sunday only;11am to 4pm.

Holiday Sing-a long and Sing-in with Long Island Masterworks An Afternoon of Holiday MusicDecember 16, 2012 / 2:00pm & 4:00pmJoin the Long Island Masterworks Quartet for anafternoon of delightful holiday music, including sing-a-longs, and the Quartet’s rendition of “The Twelve Daysof Christmas”, in the beautiful surroundings of Coe Hall.$20 per person for Members, Seniors and Students;$25 for Non-Members. No Parking Fee.

CALENDAROF EVENTS

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RECENT ACQUISITIONGift from Michael D. Coe to Planting Fields Foundation, silver punch bowl mounted with antlers, American, about 1900. Once at Coe Hall and now returned, on exhibition in the entrance hall.

CamelliaHouse Weekend

Upcoming EventFebruary 23rd & February 24th

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Recent Events at Coe Hall

CHAMPAGNE PARTY

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ARBOR DAY

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SUMMER THEATER

Cinderella All Night Strut

Bill Barash, Production Greenhouse Managerand Betty Torre

Back row: Hal & Rhoda Fishkin, Jennifer Wiggins, Muriel Urban. Front row: Betty Torre,Doris Nostrand, Richard Friedman, Donna Wolkenstein, Al Urban.

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Young Artists at Coe Hall Mansion 2012 -2013CO-PRODUCED BY PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION AND CONCERT ARTISTS GUILD

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL Lilly McGurk (516) 922-8676 OR EMAIL emcgurk@plantingfields.orgFOR DIRECTIONS VISIT www.plantingfields.orgADMISSION: $25 Non Member / $20 Member, Senior, Students

September 30, 20122:30pm at Coe HallSARAH WOLFSONSOPRANO

Lyric soprano Sarah Wolfson is the First Prize Winner of the2007 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Ms. Wolfsonrecently made recital debuts at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie

Hall (on the CAG Winners Series) and at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall (aswinner of The Juilliard School’s Vocal Arts Recital Debut). Ms. Wolfson is onthe faculty of Columbia University, where she teaches vocal performance, andis a member of Sing for Hope, a non-profit organization founded by operasingers that link artists and charities.

November 11, 20122:30pm at Coe HallSYBARITE5Sarah Whitney, violin, Angela Pickett, viola,Laura Metcalf, cello, Louis Levitt, bass, SamiMerdinia, violin. Winner, 2011 Concert ArtistsGuild Competition. Sybarite5 has taken

audiences around the US by storm. From Radiohead to Mozart, this group oftalented, diverse musicians has changed the perception of chamber musicperformance. From the moment that their bows hit the strings, the audience istaken on an exciting ride that engages the senses and redefines the rules. Sybrite5has recently appeared at the Library of Congress, on the CBS Early show, for hisHoliness the Dalai Lama, and numerous times at the Aspen Music Festival. InNew York City they have performed at Lincoln Center, Time Warner Center,Galapagos Artspace, Tishman Auditorium, Bohemian National Hall, the CoreClub, and the Cutting Room, and maintain a residency at the Cell Theatre.

January 13, 20132:30pm at Coe HallCHING-YUN HUPIANO

Winner, 2009 Concert Artists Guild Competition.Ching-Yun made her concerto debut at age 13 with the PolandCapella Cracoriensis Chamber Orchestra on tour in Asia and

won the Silver Medal at the Taipei International Piano Competition at age 16. In 2008, she captured the top prize and the Audience Favorite Prize at the 12thArthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv. Ms. Hu’sfinal round performances of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 and ProkofievPiano Concerto No. 3 with the Israel Philharmonic was broadcast live to 38countries.

February 3, 20132:30pm at Coe HallJENNIFER STUMMVIOLA

First Prize, 2006 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Featuredon the cover of the Winter 2011 SYMPHONY Magazine andquoted extensively in the “Voices of Change” emerging artists

profile in that issue. Ms. Stumm is the winner of three major competitions:Concert Artists Guild in 2006, where she took First Prize as the first solo violist inthe 60-year history of the Competition; and the William Primrose and GenevaCompetitions in 2005. Also in 2005, Ms. Stumm was honored with an awardfrom the Vriendenkrans of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.

March 10, 2013 2:30pm at Coe HallNAOMI O’CONNELLMEZZO-SOPRANO

First Prize, 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor ElmalehCompetition.In the past year, Ms. O’Connell performed with the New York

Festival of Song in their “Roadtrip” concert at Alice Tully Hall, where critics hailedher performance as “evocative, appealing and expressive”. In January, sheperformed for The Juilliard FOCUS! Festival. Ms. O’Connell made her LincolnCenter debut last March in the Juilliard Honors Recital at Alice Tully Hall withpianist Brent Funderburk. Brought up in County Clare, Ireland, Ms. O’Connellholds a Masters in Music Degree from The Juilliard School and is currentlypursuing the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies program with voice teacher Dr.Robert White. The Irish Arts Council generously supports her studies and she hasbeen awarded the Maurice R. Boyd Scholarship for Vocal Studies and the MakikoNarumi Prize for outstanding mezzo-soprano by The Juilliard School.

April 21, 2013 2:30pm at Coe HallAMPHION STRINGQUARTET

Violinists Katie Hyun and David Southorn, violist,Wei-Yang Andy Lin, and cellist, Mihai Marica.Winner, 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor

Elmaleh Competition. The Quartet was also awarded First Prize at the HugoKauder String Quartet Competition in New Haven, CT, and First Prize in thePiano and Strings category as well as the Audience Choice Award at the 2010Plowman Chamber Music Competition held in Columbia, Missouri.Highlights of the 2011-2012 season included New York performances on theSchneider Concert Series at the New School and on the Salome ChamberOrchestra Series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in addition to theTertulia chamber music series. The Amphion Quartet was the ProtégéQuartet-in-Residence at Chamber Music Northwest, where the quartet hadthe opportunity to collaborate with artistic director/clarinetist David Shifrin,and they also performed at the OK Mozart Festival.

Experience the world’s finestyoung classical musicians

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PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION STAFF

Henry B. JoyceExecutive DirectorTel: 516-922-0479Henry.Joyce@plantingfields.org

Michelle BenesMembership CoordinatorTel: 516-922-8682Mbenes@plantingfields.org

Elsa EisenbergGroup Tours and Volunteer CoordinatorTel: 516-922-8670Eeisenberg@plantingfields.org

Laraine GiardinaFinance Manager516-922-8672Finance@plantingfields.org

Jennifer L. LavellaDirector of Marketing and Special EventsTel: 516-922-8678Jlavella@plantingfields.org

Lilly McGurkMember Services and Events AssistantTel: 516-922-8676Emcgurk@plantingfields.org

Rosemarie PapayanopulousLibrarianTel: 516-922-8631

Frank SmithCuratorial InternFsmith@plantingfields.org

Gwendolyn L. SmithAssistant CuratorTel: 516-922-8680Gsmith@plantingfields.org

Antigone ZaharakisEducationTel: 516-922-8668Education@plantingfields.org

Evergreen is published by Planting Fields Foundation.Copyright © 2012Graphic Design by Amy HerlingMacomea@optonline.net

PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATIONP.O. Box 660 Oyster Bay, NY 11771www.plantingfields.orgT: 516-922-9210F: 516-922-9226

FRANK SMITH

Frank Smith received a bachelor’s degree MagnaCum Laude in History from Adelphi University inMay 2012. While studying at Adelphi, Frankwas awarded Adelphi University OutstandingJunior of the Year and Senior of the Year inHistory. He has presented his research onskilled and industrial slavery at the NationalConference on Undergraduate Research and hisSenior Thesis on Edward Randolph, a 17th

century English colonial administrator, has been nominated for Adelphi’sOutstanding History Paper of the Year.

Frank began at Coe Hall as a volunteer in May 2011 in the Archives.Combing through the family letters and correspondences of the Coefamily, he put together a chronology that shows the activities of eachfamily member over the many years of their lives. Chosen as a CuratorialIntern in the fall of 2011, he has worked on digitalizing the Coe familyledgers, and has helped to research portions of the Cocktail Cultureexhibition. Frank is deeply interested in examining and interpreting LongIsland’s rich history. Assisting at Coe Hall has given him the opportunityto research this subject and help interpret it for visitors to Planting Fields.

GWENDOLYN L. SMITH

Gwendolyn L. Smith has recently joined PlantingFields Foundation as Assistant Curator. She is aMassachusetts native and graduated fromSmith College with a Bachelors Degree in ArtHistory and Harvard University with a MastersDegree in Museum Studies.

Gwendolyn joins us from the Peabody EssexMuseum, where she worked as an Exhibitions

Coordinator. Her fondest memory while at PEM was working on theplanning and logistics of installing “Fiery Pool: The Maya and the MythicSea” and traveling with “Treasures from the Forbidden City,” whichbrought her to the Met, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the PalaceMuseum in Beijing. Prior to PEM, she worked at the Sterling & FrancineClark Art Institute in the Exhibitions and Registration departments, aswell as serving as a project coordinator for a time during their expansion.Gwendolyn has also worked in historic houses; she spent eleven seasonsat the Ralph Waldo Emerson house and also worked at the OrchardHouse, both in Concord, Massachusetts.

Gwendolyn is delighted to be at Planting Fields, and looks forward toworking on a number of curatorial, collections, and exhibitionsrelated projects.

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