Join Ashleigh Pettus, Operations Manager for Trees New York, and learn how to care for your street trees and help them thrive. Topics discussed will include watering, mulching, and tree bed gardening. We will also discuss why street trees are important to the urban environment.

Green-Wood is a veritable outdoor museum of stone sculptures—home to over 250,000 in all, each memorializing a life story. At this hands-on workshop, Neela Wickremesinghe, Green-Wood’s Manager of Restoration and Preservation, will offer insights into the art of stone conservation and demonstrate how her team creates replacement parts when monuments need repair. Using the same techniques, each participant will cast his/her own personal plaster ornament to take home.

Ancient Egyptian kings like Tutankhamun could have anything he wanted for his tomb. But the king’s subjects, ordinary middle-class Egyptians, were forced to make choices about the objects they included in their tombs. They wanted to guarantee their entrance to the next world, but they simply could not afford everything that royalty had. This lecture explores how Egyptians furnished their tombs on a budget. Their strategies included choosing cheaper materials, combining two or more necessary objects into one item, or even buying a coffin second hand. Examples of all these strategies will be illustrated and explained.