Troy club hosts Meadow Brook garden gala - C&G Newspapers
When the Troy Garden Club, a local branch of the Woman’s National Farm & Garden Association, was asked to host the national group’s yearly International Tea Aug. She hosted an International Tea at Meadow Brook in the ’60s. “Meadow Brook is a National Historic Landmark and a Proven Winners Signature Garden, one of only a handful in the U. S. ,” said Mary Schwark, vice president of the Michigan Division of... Other Proven Winners Signature Gardens include the Hotel Iroquois on Mackinac Island, the Kentucky and Illinois governors mansions, and the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens in Buffalo, New York. The International Tea raises funds for the International 4-H Youth Exchange program, through which high school age youths can study abroad. Schwark said that two students, one from Kyrgyzstan and one from the Ukraine, planned to attend with 4-H representatives as participants in the Michigan State International 4-H Youth Exchange Program. “Russell Mawby, chairman emeritus of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, was one of the first students who went abroad (with the International 4-H Youth Exchange Program) in the late ’60s,” Schwark said. The International Tea featured a program about the history of the Meadow Brook gardens. Source: www.candgnews.com
