[SOA] press release from lloyd library

[Anna Heran]

Please excuse cross-postings.  Thank you.

 

PRESS RELEASE

                                                                

Contact:

 

Maggie Heran, Director

Lloyd Library & Museum

513-721-3707


mheran at lloydlibrary.org

 

For Immediate Release

 

May 21, 2009

 

Lloyd Library and Museum Announces Unveiling of Plans for Lloyd
Medicinal Garden

at the Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Garden

 

Celebration at the Lloyd, Saturday, June 6, 2009, 4-7 p.m.

 

                

The Lloyd Library and Museum proudly announces the forthcoming Lloyd
Medicinal Garden (LMG) to be located in Columbus at the Ohio Governor's
Residence and Heritage Garden (OHG).  On Saturday, June 6, 2009 from 4-7
p.m. the library will celebrate the unveiling of plans for the garden
with an exciting variety of events, all of which will be open to the
public.  Admission is $7.00 for the general public and $5.00 for members
of Lloyd's Friends Group.  Proceeds will support the installation of the
LMG set to begin this autumn.

 

Events include presentations by Hope Taft, former First Lady of Ohio and
creator of the Ohio Heritage Garden; Dianne McElwain, award-winning
botanical artist; Gary W. Miesner, award-winning landscape architect;
and Dewey Hollister, landscape designer and garden lecture.  Beginning
at 4:30 p.m. the speakers will discuss their work on and for the OHG and
their contributions to the book Our First Family's Home: the Ohio
Governor's Residence and Heritage Garden published in 2008.  After the
presentations there will be opportunities to purchase the book as well
as to have the authors sign them.  In addition, before and after the
presentations, guests will be treated to a reception catered by Jeff
Thomas Catering.

 

In conjunction with the unveiling of the Lloyd Medicinal Garden, there
will be two new exhibits opening on the sixth and running through August
28, 2009.  The Lloyd Gallery will showcase nearly 20 works of botanical
art by Dianne McElwain, including three new works of Ohio medicinal
plants, most of which will be available for purchase.  In the Exhibits
Alcove, American Natives: Ohio Medicinal Plants and Lloyd Brothers,
Pharmacists, Inc. will feature twelve Ohio medicinal plants used by the
Lloyd Brothers to prepare their medicines.  On display will be historic
and rare books, botanical illustrations, artifacts, photographs,
ephemera, and information on the historic use of the Ohio native plants.

 

The Lloyd Library and Museum, located at 917 Plum Street, downtown
Cincinnati, is a local and regional treasure.  The library was developed
in the nineteenth century by the Lloyd brothers-John Uri, Curtis Gates,
and Nelson Ashley to provide reference sources for Lloyd Brothers
Pharmacists, Inc., one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of the
period.  Today the library is recognized worldwide by the scientific
community as a vital research center. The library holds, acquires, and
provides access to both historic and current materials on the subjects
of pharmacy, botany, horticulture, herbal and alternative medicine,
pharmacognosy, and related topics.  Although our collections have a
scientific focus, they also have relevance to humanities topics, such as
visual arts and foreign languages through resources that feature
botanical and natural history illustrations, original artworks, and
travel literature, thereby revealing the convergence of science and art.
The Lloyd is open to anyone with an interest in these topics.  Free
parking is available for patrons and visitors behind the library
building.  For more information, visit the Lloyd website at 
www.lloydlibrary.org.

 

Lloyd Library and Museum

917 Plum Street

Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

513-721-3707

www.lloydlibrary.org

Open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Open the third Saturday of the month, September through May, 9:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m.

 

 

Bringing Science, Art, and History to Life

 

 

Anna K. Heran

Archivist/IT Specialist

Lloyd Library and Museum and

Historical Research Center for the Natural Health Movement

917 Plum Street

Cincinnati OH 45202

(513) 721-3707

www.lloydlibrary.org

Because the past is the path to the future.

 

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