MARTHA'S VINEYARD GARDEN CLUB
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    • Floral Arrangements for Hospice Soiree!
  • Blooming Art
    • Blooming Art - Preview 2023
    • After Blooming Art 2022
    • Blooming Art 2022 Photos and Thank You!
  • Member's Gardens
    • 2022 Garden Walkabouts hosted by our Members
    • Jane Bradbury's Edgartown Garden
    • September: Minor Knight
    • August: Nancy Kilson
    • July: Susan Hobart and Susan Rust
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    • Reference Info, Magazines & Apps
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A few things from the Martha's  Vineyard Garden Club archives...  



​1925 Article on the MVGC Club Meeting from The Vineyard Gazette
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Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club
Conservation
Martha's Vineyard Garden Club
Vineyard Gazette
Friday, August 21, 1925 - 2:10pm

At the invitation of its vice president, Mrs. William M. Butler, the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club met at her summer home, “Mohu”, on August 12th.
 
A very large attendance was most gratifying, as Edward G. Harring­ton, secretary of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, gave a very interesting lecture on the Arnold Arboretum, illustrated with colored lantern slides, of the more interest­ing trees, shrubs and flowers in the arboretum, at the same time giving a comprehensive and illuminating idea of the work and its importance in the horticultural world. As sev­eral members said afterwards, “We had no idea there was such a won­derful place!” 
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Here's a current Facebook post that one of our members contributed. It highlights the words of one of the Garden Club's past speakers....  
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​The First MVGC Meeting held at the Old Mill is heralded in the Gazette's news...from 1938
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​West Tisbury’s Old Mill Reopened by Club
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Mills
Martha's Vineyard Garden Club
Vineyard Gazette

Friday, July 1, 1938 - 1:59pm
The structure on the Old Mill River, West Tisbury, had its second birthday on Tuesday. And this seems strange, for the building, staunch as the day it was built, and preceded on the site by other buildings devoted to the same purpose it fulfilled so long, has a long and honorable history. And yet Tues­day was actually its second birthday, for how else can one describe the rebirth of the Old Mill, restored to life if not to industry through the efforts of the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club, which in saving the ancient landmark from impending ruin, also provided it­self with a home of its own.
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  • WELCOME
  • Meetings/Events/Workshops
    • 2023 Program & Events
    • Directions to the WAKEMAN CENTER
    • Directions to the OLD MILL
  • About Us
    • Who we are
    • Leadership
    • Committees
    • Charitable Projects
    • Fun with the MVGarden Club
    • AG FAIR and the Garden Club!
  • JOIN the Club, RENEW OR DONATE!
  • Garden Club History
    • Blasts from the Past
    • The OLD MILL Yesterday
    • The OLD MILL Today
    • Garden Club Seale
  • Giving Back
    • Rose Styron Garden
    • Harbor Homes
    • Woodside Community Garden
    • Mytoi Gardens on Chappy!
    • Floral Arrangements for Hospice Soiree!
  • Blooming Art
    • Blooming Art - Preview 2023
    • After Blooming Art 2022
    • Blooming Art 2022 Photos and Thank You!
  • Member's Gardens
    • 2022 Garden Walkabouts hosted by our Members
    • Jane Bradbury's Edgartown Garden
    • September: Minor Knight
    • August: Nancy Kilson
    • July: Susan Hobart and Susan Rust
  • Resources
    • Conservation Information
    • Horticultural HInts for January
    • Reference Info, Magazines & Apps
    • Virtual Presentations, Garden Tours and Websites
    • Allied Organizations on MV
    • Prominent Horticultural Organizations
  • Members Only
    • WT & MVCB Grant Information
    • Membership List
    • Branding presentation
    • Bylaws (Aug. 2013)