The 19th-century Italian Fleischmann Fountain, fully restored after nearly 100 years of constant use, is once again providing delight. Originally brought in the early 1920s from Italy for the spectacularly landscaped gardens of Winding Creek Farm, it anchored a circular seating area that led to cascading fountains, leading in turn down under a long parterre to [...]
Michael Vollbracht, the renowned artist and fashion designer who designed the Third Street South logo, died in 2018. The logo, named Dorette after Dorette Fleischmann, who with her husband, Junkie, was responsible for the launch of Third Street South as we know it today, has the indelible grace of line that was Michael Vollbracht’s hallmark. Trained [...]
It’s a few days into the New Year, and how are your resolutions going? It’s early days. Perhaps some of you are still on track, but some of us – those who actually made resolutions – are already goners. Big-scale changes are the first to go, so try some smaller ones. The New York Times has [...]
A brain teaser is a good way to pass a little time. If you think a garden path is only a defined route in a garden, you are wrong. It is also a type of sentence that can cause our brains to jump to an expected conclusion about the sentence's meaning – and be totally wrong. [...]
