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Manhattan Chapter

North American Rock Garden Society
The Manhattan Chapter of NARGS meets at least eight times a year at the Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place, west side of Stuyvesant Park between 15th and 16th Sts., and 2nd and 3rd Avenues. The meetings are held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on the second or third Monday of each month, excluding July and August.
 
2007-8 Speaker Topic Location

Sunday, November 4
10 AM

Janis Ruksans

Growing Corydalis
The Bulb Belt of the former USSR

 Daronco Town House
20 Fifth Avenue
Pelham, NY
Directions below
Monday, December 10, 6-8:00 pm
Annual Meeting		 Brendan Kenney Prague Gardens Friends Meeting House (see above)
Monday, January 14, 6-8:00 pm Don Dembowski Spring Woodland Gems Friends Meeting House (see above)
Monday, February 25, 6-8:00 pm Joe DiMattio Gardening Among the Rocks of the Hudson River Valley Friends Meeting House (see above)
Monday, March 24, 6-8:00 pm Peter Korn, NARGS Speaker Tour Building for Growing Friends Meeting House (see above)
Monday, April 21, 6-8:00 pm Matt Mattus Small Bulbs and Alpines for Container Culture Friends Meeting House (see above)
May 19, 2007 - New York Botanic Garden – Rock Garden Tour led by Curator Jody Payne
Monday, June 16, 6-8:00 pm Richard Iversen Wardian Cases: Adornments for Homes of Taste Friends Meeting House (see above)
July/August No Meetings

 

Directions to Daronco Town House, Pelham, NY:

By train: the Metro-North New Haven line train stops at Pelham.   >From the train, walk north (same side of station where you were left off).  The Daronco Town House is a half block from the station, near the gazebo.

By car: Merritt Pkwy (Rte. 15 ) to the Hutchinson River Pkwy south. 

Exit 12 (Lincoln Avenue).   At the exit, make a right and another right at the light onto Lincoln Avenue, crossing back over the Hutchinson River Pkwy.  Stay on Lincoln to Fifth Avenue.  At Fifth Avenue make a right turn.  The Town House is 2 1/2 blocks on the left. 

Chapter Officers
Chair Michael Riley
Programs Lola Horwitz & Mary Buchen
Treasurer John Jacobus
Secretary Lawrence B. Thomas
Membership Secretary Kean Teck Eng
Newsletter Editor Lola Lloyd Horwitz

Membership: Annual dues for the Manhattan Chapter are $20 per year, check payable to Manhattan Chapter/NARGS, and mailed to Kean Teck Eng, 385 Douglass Street, #3A, Brooklyn NY 11217. This entitles members to engage in all Chapter activities and receive five newsletters each year.

For additional information about joining the Chapter, send an e-Mail message to Kean Teck Eng