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Cultivating Place: In honor of Juneteenth: The Anne Spencer House & Garden, with Shaun Spencer Hester

All images courtesy of Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum; all rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum; all rights reserved.

In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we check in on the Anne Spencer House & Garden in Lynchburg, VA. The home and garden of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer and her husband Edward, this garden remains the only known fully restored historic garden of an African American in the U.S.

All images courtesy of Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum; all rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum; all rights reserved.

We’re in conversation with Anne and Edward’s granddaughter, Shaun Spencer-Hester – who serves as the Executive Director and Curator of the House & Garden Museum.

Shaun shares so much more information on the history, including new discoveries, the present, and the vibrant future of this important historic treasure of a garden and its gardeners. Listen in!

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All images courtesy of Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum; all rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum; all rights reserved.

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Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.