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Chub's family tree is full of prominent Democrats. The most famous of all was Chub's grandfather, the Endicott Peabody who founded Groton and who was a lifelong advocate of Democratic public service...
Beauty & Freedom. In a sense, McKenna has only done what comes naturally at North Carolina, the first (1795) state university to open its doors. Chapel Hill boasts "something in the air" that inspires purpose. In part, the spur is natural beauty: a town built around a tree-shaded oasis of ivied Georgian buildings on 552 acres. Alumnus Thomas Wolfe ('20) fondly described "Pulpit Hill" in Look Homeward, Angel as "a provincial outpost of great Rome: the wilderness crept up to it like a beast...
Gardens and gardeners up north are getting ready for the long winter, but down south the struggle with weeds, blights, parasites and pests goes on all year long. Particularly in Texas, where a tree is a cherished possession, often imported from the north, planted, fed, and cosseted like a sickly child. In Texas a millionaire may lay out a quarter of a million dollars building hills, engineering creeks, hauling rocks, irrigating shrubs and grass. And with all that expenditure, it seems a shame to leave it out in the dark at night. The result is a boom in a relatively...
Watson demonstrates his effects for prospective clients by flicking switches and rheostats on a large console that controls 100 lighting fixtures, 179 switches and four miles of wire packed into his small Japanese garden. The lights themselves are mostly small and invisible, mounted on trees or behind bushes. "The important thing is to achieve an understatement of light-subtle and restful," says Watson. Many of his clients need considerable convincing on this point; a floodlight seems to them the best way to illuminate a tree that cost...
...acre Dallas garden Watson was putting the finishing touches on a $16,200 installation. The color is red. "See those three purple beeches," said Byrd to a visitor. "While the moonlight's going, I can throw a switch, and a series of powerful red lights plays on those tree trunks. I know Watson didn't care much for it. But I like red." Mr. Byrd's sharp eyes grew pensive. He said: "I'm trying to figure out some way to have a big American flag lit up out there...