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Cloud Terrace, April 2012 - October 2013

An online exhibit to accompany an installation of archival and contemporary photographs of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens in the Catalogue House, on view beginning November 20, 2015.

Oral History Interview with William Howard Adams, undertaken by Anne Steptoe, Elizabeth Gettinger, and Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent at Hazelfield House, near Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia, on July 17, 2009. The garden design historian William Howard Adams was a member of the Garden Advisory Committee at Dumbarton Oaks between 1978 and 1983.

Oral History Interview with Corliss Knapp Engle (1936–2009), undertaken by Elizabeth Gettinger and Anne Steptoe at the Arnold Arboretum on July 23, 2009. Corliss Engle died on November 26, 2009.

Oral History Interview with Gail Griffin, undertaken by Joshua Wilson and James W. Curtin in the Dumbarton Oaks Archives on July 12, 2013. At Dumbarton Oaks, Gail Griffin has been the Director of Gardens and Grounds since 1997.

Conversation with Donald Smith, undertaken by Barbara Harrelson and David Keil in the Orangery at Dumbarton Oaks on August 6, 1992. The interviewers’ questions were not audibly recorded. At Dumbarton Oaks, Don Smith was Assistant Superintendent (1952–1974) and Superintendent (1974–1992) of Gardens and Grounds. He died in 2012.

James N. Carder (April 2017)

The Pool of 'Bamboo Counterpoint' (2014) / String Quartet and 22 Intermissions (Please Be Seated) (2015) / Garden Quartet, Mostly Intermezzos, Some Preludes, No Cadenzas (2016)