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Archives Month

Glass lantern slide of a garden with a fountain at Halcyon Lodge in Lake Forest, IL from the Archives of American Gardens, Garden Club of Amreica Collection

Big Shoes to Fill: The Archives of American Gardens’ Digital Footprint

October 5, 2021 at 9:15 am

While October is American Archives Month, the Archives of American Gardens (managed by Smithsonian Gardens) celebrates the importance of archives year-round! Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, staff who manage Smithsonian Gardens’ Archives of American Gardens (AAG) have been primarily teleworking from home. Despite the fact that they have not been […]

Sunflower infront of white apartment building

Harvesting Garden History, One Story at a Time

October 4, 2019 at 10:00 am

October is Archives Month, and as gardeners across the country harvest the last of their summer crops, we’re turning our attention to a different type of harvesting: preserving stories about gardens for future generations. Smithsonian Gardens’ Community of Gardens digital archive is celebrating Archives Month with a story-behind-the-story featuring a contributor to our digital archive.