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WORDS & PHOTOS Shakespeare in the Garden
This week’s gardening column comes from Jeff’s wife, Leabeth, who teaches English to ninth graders at Nacogdoches High School. I come home after a day in the classroom to my husband calling out to me, “Did you see Shakespeare in the garden?” I must confess my heart did a little leap. Shakespeare in the garden?…
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Words: Sweet Fragrance and Slow Strangulation
Few vines have more romantic connotations than the sweetly fragrant wisteria. Take for example Elizabeth Von Arnim’s novel Enchanted April. The novel begins with two Victorian English ladies who, unbeknownst to each other, read the same advertisement in the London Times: “To those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine. For rent: small medieval, Italian castle on…