Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, some cavers get incredibly secretive about the best places. For years rumors have circulated about a certain Garden of Eden Cave in Schoharie County, N.Y. -- a cave which is supposed to be three miles long and filled with formations--but only a handful of people know where it is, and they won't talk. The attempts to keep a new cave or tunnel's location secret sometimes go to ridiculous lengths...
...reasons for their secrecy. Too often when a cave's reputation spreads, its owners turn it into a commercial attraction and close it to further exploration. Or farmers dynamite their caves shut if careless cavers leave carbide lying around the cave's entrance, poisoning livestock. Those who know the Garden of Eden Cave say that this would happen to it as soon as people began to visit...
...that could be hissed were "She paints." Petite (5 ft. 2½ in.), fluttery, auburn-haired Florence Nightingale Graham was only the daughter of an immigrant Ontario truck farmer, but she intended to be a lady. Borrowing 1) a name from two genteel Victorian books (Elizabeth and Her German Garden and Enoch Arden), 2) the technique of giving "scientific treatments" to customers by massaging on creams and lotions from a previous employer, Eleanor Adair, and 3) $6,000 from a cousin, she set up her first salon, for well-heeled society matrons, in a converted brownstone house at 509 Fifth...
Plop No. 1 is a Garden of Eden spoof adapted from Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve. Eve chews out Adam before he chews on the apple. She wants the grass "shortened." She wants their three-board wigwam painted because she hates brown. Their Eden is no paradise of humor. Adam: "I have to empty the four-pronged white squirter." Eve: "You mean the cow." Eve discovers love, but the snake must have slipped her the lyrics...
...Gardening is regarded as the province of nice ladies and retired gentlemen, but it is well to remember that it is also a primal human activity. In a parable of human anguish raised to an existential level, Nigel Dennis pursues Voltaire's suggestion that man should look to his own garden, and shows in a nightmare vision what it would be like to be the last gardener-one man alone, devoted to growing things in a mechanized military world...