Upcoming Events

Mystic and Noank Library
September 28 Authors and Hors d’oeuvres at 6:30

Denison Pequotsepos Nature
November 10 Silent Auction gala, DNPC major fund raiser

Mystic Arts Center
September 28-November 10 CT Women artists & photo show XXXXIX

Connecticut College Arboretum autumn 2007 Programs

• September 28-29-Mum and Pumpkin show
• October 11- The environment from a tree’s perspective (lecture/workshop)
• October 13- At home with herbs (A lecture/workshop)
• October 20 Annual fall Foliage Walk
• November 3 Bounty and Beauty in your yard (A Salt seminar)
• November 10 Annual Mamacoke Walk (A geology hike)
• November 17 Finding your way with maps (an Exploration)
• December 1 Creating holiday Wreaths (a workshop)
• December 7 Creating Holiday Ornaments (A workshop for children and adults)
• December 7 trimming a holiday tree 9 A celebratory event with Arboretum staff)
• Garden Education Center of Greenwich
• October 15 Ron Morgan! Celebrated Floral Designer at 10AM
• October 16 Ron Morgan master class 10 AM
• November 9 Jennifer Pfeiffer of Green: floral and events 10:30

Other Events

• October 13 unusual plants for woodland and rock gardens-North American
  Rock Garden Society, Ct. chapter meeting at Quackin’ Grass Nursery
• October 14 CT. Dahlia Society meets at Thomaston Bank, 985 Watertown Rd. Waterbury
• October 15 Growing Iris in CT. Ruth Bennett of the CT. Iris Society, Simsbury Garden Club

Did You Know?

The Mystic Garden Club will be celebrating 35 years, doing the annual “GREEN SALE”
The Lower Mystic cemetery depicts many chapters of our Country’s history. It is the final resting place of veterans from at least three wars. There are five veterans from the War of 1812, who helped to defend Mystic from British coastal raids. We are also honored to have 24 Civil War veterans in our burial place, including Medal of Honor recipient Capt. John Knight Bucklyn who is interred in the mausoleum. In addition, two Spanish-American War veterans are buried in the cemetery-Lucian O. Allen and William Lewis.
There are also two members of he California Gold rush buried there. Three young Mystic men, Charles Sisson, Thomas Wolfe and Ransford Ashby jr. came down with the gold rush fever and left together to search for gold. Failing to find riches, they embarked on a return steamer which landed on the Nicaraguan Isthmus. Ashby died of fever at Chagres, but Wolfe and Sisson returned to Mystic months later, in time to attend Ashby’s burial in lower Mystic. After a successful career as a sea captain, Sisson died in 1885 and was laid to rest not far from our Bradford Pear Tree. His stone bears a representation of a sailing ship.
The Mystic Garden Club has donated $1000 last year to the Lower Mystic Cemetery for mowing the grass there.