Stop and Smell the Thyme at the Whipple House 17th Century Housewife’s Garden

Joe Carlin, Food historian, will review the contributions of landscape architects Arthur and Sidney Shurcliff who designed in 1955 the original Whipple House Garden.  In the 1960s Isadore Smith (pseudonym Ann Leighton), author of Early American Gardens, provided leadership to make the garden historically accurate with authentic medicinal and culinary herbs known to have been grown and used in the area. Joe will show how 17^th Century women preserved their medicinal solutions for all types of ills in manuscript cookbooks.