04-02-2010 at 11:08 PM
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Sunken gardens?
So I was listening to peter george's last lecture on youtube.. and he said "some people still complain about the disappearance of the sunken garden", apparently it was where the hospital was...~50 years ago. I googled it and there were no modern photos of it but from the black and white photos/paintings, it looked like.. a dream land of roses and a big pond filled with lily pads. just wondering if anyone has any more info on this sunken garden or pictures
tl;dr: need pictures/info of the former sunken garden that was present at mac ~50 years ago
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04-03-2010 at 12:34 AM
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Would be cool to know more about this.
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04-03-2010 at 08:11 AM
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my grandparents always talk about this garden and how pretty the entrance to mac used to be before they went all industrial.
cool to see a picture!
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04-03-2010 at 09:25 AM
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anyone know peter geroge's office hours? I kinda want to see if he has any more pics
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04-03-2010 at 09:26 AM
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Why don't we recreate it? After all, everywhere you walk on campus, we appear to be in the midst of construction. While I like real life labyrinths, they'd be more worth it if there was something the students really wanted being built.
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04-03-2010 at 10:00 AM
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I'm really sad that this is gone!
What about if we contacted the Mac Alumni Association (MAA) and made making a new one part of a class gift, kind of like the rock gardens near faculty hollow?
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04-03-2010 at 10:44 AM
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omg that is so pretty! Yea...I say let's build a new one.
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04-03-2010 at 11:01 AM
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I'm sooo sad this is gone! I understand the want/ need to put in a hospital etc. because it is a HUGE part of our school however this garden was beautiful!
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04-03-2010 at 11:32 AM
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I say we get rid of the 3 separate green houses near bridges and combine it into one huge green house with pretty roses all year round. Better yet, get rid of the art museum and make a huge garden there.. then again, we're kinda in debt so any professional grade garden isn't feasible =(
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04-03-2010 at 11:41 AM
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Last edited by killza : 04-03-2010 at 11:50 AM.
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04-03-2010 at 12:07 PM
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That was a beautiful garden. These days stuff like that isn't a priority sadly. It would be nice to have something like that on campus!But I also don' think people today would appreciate gardens like that as much as people did back then.
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04-03-2010 at 12:14 PM
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Actually, I think that in an age of new environmental appreciation and disdain regarding excessive unnecessary industrial expansion, people would love to have this back. Just look at the lawns on campus this week - they were filled with people appreciating nature. It would also emphasize that we as a community place importance on all aspects of the community, especially the ecosystem. It would have enormous benefits for the Earth and Science and Biology programs because they could study wildlife, in the wild. I think the art museum is an important part of academic and art culture at Mac, even if it's not densely populated. The outcry from Art History majors regarding the introduction of a minor and removal of majoring in the program demonstrates how passionate those who enjoy the museum really are about it.
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That was a beautiful garden. These days stuff like that isn't a priority sadly. It would be nice to have something like that on campus!But I also don' think people today would appreciate gardens like that as much as people did back then.
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04-03-2010 at 12:15 PM
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As well, I think that after ELM, introduction of this kind of wildlife would be applauded.
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04-03-2010 at 12:56 PM
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would get old quick
and combining 3 greenhouses into 1? wtf
you know there are different types of plants and they require different conditions, like amount of sunlight, humidity, temperature, etc to grow properly
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