A Talk on Edna Walling - Nov 24 Lilydale
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Edna Walling is very much in the air - or should I say in the garden, her spirit anyway. Well over 3000 people visited Bickleigh Vale Village earlier this month during the Open Gardens Victoria day. I was there. Eight gardens were open. It was stunningly beautiful. I've been asked to give a talk on this wonderful woman, details below. (p.s. Still no news on the novel/publisher front, fingers crossed, nails terribly bitten.) AUTHOR TALK Edna Walling The Woman Who Grew A Village Edna Walling (1895-1973) walks across a cow paddock and has a vision… “I shall build a village here,” she said. And over time, that is exactly what she did. Join author Sara Hardy as she explores the journey that led Edna Walling to create a village on a hill in Mooroolbark. Bickleigh Vale Village brought together Edna Walling’s ideals and ideas about design, nature and community. It is her living legacy, an oasis of beautiful thinking. The