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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 1/17/2012 7:20 PM, L. Santoyo wrote:

Did you know about this, Larry?

> From: "The Garden Conservancy" <gshakespear@gardenconservancy.org>
> Subject: Imminent threat: crane removal scheduled for tomorrow Date:
> January 17, 2012 1:53:01 PM PST THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY P.O. BOX 219 •
> COLD SPRING, NEW YORK 10516 • 845.265.2029/9620 FAX FOR IMMEDIATE
> RELEASE January 17, 2012 Media contact: George Shakespear,
> 845.265.2029 (Cold Spring, NY) gshakespear@gardenconservancy.org
> Photos available Historic UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden
> Threatened
>
> Removal of priceless art underway Tuesday, January 17 The survival of
> the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden, a place of cultural significance
> and extreme beauty in Bel Air, California, is in critical danger. The
> garden, an asset to the community for fifty years and owned by the
> University of California, Los Angeles, has long been open to the
> public and serves as a teaching resource for the local community and
> for students of garden history, landscape architects, and garden
> lovers from around the world. That all may change very soon: the
> University has announced plans to place the garden on the market by
> the end of January, after first removing valuable art objects that
> are integral to the design of the garden.
>
> On Tuesday, January 17, the removal of the objects has begun.
>
> The garden is an exceptional Japanese-style garden built in America
> in the post-World War II period. It represents the work of Nagao
> Sakurai and Koichi Kawana, two of the leading figures who created
> Japanese gardens on the West Coast in the mid-twentieth century.
>
> Bill Noble, the Garden Conservancy’s director of preservation, notes
> that the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden is important not only for its
> exceptional beauty, but also for its cultural significance. “It
> demonstrates how, soon after the war, California quickly turned to
> the inspiration, timeless beauty, and healing qualities of
> traditional gardens in Japan. A spirit of authenticity as a private
> retreat also permeates the Hannah Carter garden; it’s one of the very
> few private Japanese gardens open to the public.”
>
> Dr. Kendall H. Brown, professor of Asian Art, California State
> University, Long Beach, describes the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden
> as “ ...the biggest and best private, residential [Japanese-style]
> garden built in America in the immediate post-war period.
>
> “It also shows… a new sophistication in American domestic culture, in
> which garden styles including ‘California patio,’ ‘Hawaiian
> tropical,’ and ‘Japanese teahouse’ are combined into something that
> is distinctly American and wonderfully Californian.”
>
> The Garden Conservancy, among others, has expressed its concern in
> writing to the UCLA Chancellor, urging the University to seek ways to
> preserve the garden and assure public access, perhaps by selling the
> house and dedicating funds to an endowment. It is also in
> communication with other preservation leaders and organizations in
> Los Angeles.
>
> The Garden Conservancy feels strongly that the university should
> respect the garden donor’s intent that this significant garden be
> preserved with public access. The artifacts, stones, plants, and
> other design features that contribute to the importance and
> exceptional quality of the garden should be restored to their
> original positions. The integrity of the garden is essential to any
> strategy to preserve it; its value would be severely compromised if
> the original design is altered in any way.
>
> How people can help: The Garden Conservancy encourages people to send
> an e-mail to info@gardenconservancy.org with their contact
> information and a brief description of how they might be able to
> participate.
>
> We also encourage interested parties to write to the UCLA Chancellor
> and urge him to withdraw the sale of the garden while an effort is
> made to assess and organize community support for preserving it.
>
> chancellor@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-2151 Fax: 310-206-6030 UCLA
> Chancellor's Office Box 951405, 2147 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA
> 90095-1405
>
> For more information on the threat to the Hannah Carter Japanese
> Garden, see www.gardenconservancy.org.
>
>
> The Garden Conservancy was founded in 1989 by renowned plantsman
> Frank Cabot. Seeing a critical gap in America's preservation efforts,
> he established an organization to preserve exceptional gardens for
> public enjoyment and education. The Conservancy remains the only
> national organization dedicated to saving gardens as part of our
> natural and cultural heritage.

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