One of many Frank Lloyd Wright's designs on holiday ornaments available at the Fallingwater Museum Shop. Pictured here is an ornament from the museum shop taken from the china pattern for Wright's Cabaret Dining Room in the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan (1916 - 1923, demolished 1968), this asymmetrical design of brightly colored circles is hand painted in Poland.
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Steps Along the Way Increasing Our Connections to Volunteers Each year, our “family” of 5,000 garden stewards and cultivators enhance the lives of western Pennsylvanians through their care of community gardens. Some of these volunteers have been part of our WPC family for many years and are passing their knowledge and experience on to a new generation of community leaders. This year, WPC brought our garden stewards together at the Bear Run Regional Interpretive Center at Fallingwater to celebrate the first day of spring and kick off the 2004 garden season. Although it still resembled winter in the mountains, volunteers shared experiences, reviewed updates on the WPC community gardening program, and each received a copy of our new Garden Steward’s Manual full of tips and ideas. Volunteers were so enthusiastic about the get-together that WPC will now make the Community Conservation Spring Kick Off an annual event. Volunteers from various regional companies and corporations are also vital to the community garden program. The “record” for the highest impact corporate volunteer group belongs to a work team from Deloitte. As part of the company’s annual community “Impact Day,” held in October, 18 Deloitte employees removed the flowers and mulch from our very large garden at the Fort Pitt Tunnel in a record time of two hours. But they didn’t stop there. Quickly, they moved on to clear the plants and mulch at the three flowerbeds at the Liberty Tunnels in even less time — an hour and a half. We salute Deloitte for their hard work and outstanding commitment to their community. |
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