A century later, Shakespeare Garden celebrates the women who kept a dream growing
In a 2016 True Dakotan file photo, Shakespeare Garden Society board members, from left, Kathy Dean, Susan Dean Arnott, Linda Boschee and Brenda Deines are pictured at the garden. Dean is being honored during Sunday’s Garden Party as she retires after decades of service to Shakespeare Garden.
Professor Emma Shay, left, planted the seeds for Shakespeare Garden after traveling to England in 1926 to gather research and inspiration for the garden she and her students began the following year. Decades later, a new generation of volunteers took up the work of preserving and restoring Shay’s vision.
A century after Wessington Springs College English Professor Emma Shay journeyed across the Atlantic in search of inspiration, the garden that grew from that trip continues to bloom on a hillside in Wessington Springs.
The Shakespeare Garden Society will celebrate that remarkable 100-year connection Sunday, Aug. 16, with a Garden Party and Anne Hathaway Cottage Open House from 4 to 6 p.m. at Shakes…
