NY Times Home & Garden:
The Versailles of the North. Even in our most trying economic times, there is a need for beauty to relieve the burden. Longwood Gardens was built by the DuPonts, makers of gunpowder. The parquet tile floor in their organ room is made up of the slivered gunstocks from World War I. Folks walk across those wooden floors daily, never considering each sliver likely represents a life lost in war ... or that the gardens are the result of profits therefrom. Formal gardens tend to overcome their origination stories and become something else. I find this garden a little contemporary for my taste, but I still applaud its creation, notwithstanding.
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