A Gardener Through The Seasons With Emily Dickinson 

A play by Emily Parrish Stembridge Smith.
On December 10, 2023, we celebrated the 193rd birthday of beloved poet Emily Dickinson inside the beautiful and historic Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum.
This celebration of Emily Dickinson is part of an ongoing exhibition at the museum called "This Earthen Door"- which is in reference to one of Dickinson's poems.
Born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson wrote over 18 hundred poems in her lifetime, though only 10 were published while she was alive.
During her life, she was more well-known for her green thumb, and her love of the botanical world can be found throughout her poems and personal letters.
During the celebration, Emily Stembridge - a local actress and theater teacher - brought these words to life as she embodied the 19th-century poet.
Her short play - "A Gardener Through the Seasons with Emily Dickinson" - will take you on a journey over the four seasons - seeing the world through the eyes of one of the most beloved and iconic poets of the past two centuries.
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“This Earthen Door” is a beautiful series made over the course of three pandemic years, it is a special artwork series by Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey, artists who were inspired by American poet’s Emily Dickinson’s (1830-1886) personal herbarium scrapbook that she started when she was 14 years old. In a gesture honoring Dickinson’s effort made nearly 200 years ago and galvanized by the fact that her herbarium is now too delicate for viewing, Marchand and Sobsey gathered plants and flowers from their gardens to remake her sampler with an early plant-based photographic process known as an anthotype. Visit This Earthen Door in the South Gallery of the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum from early November to March 31, 2024.
Find this and so much more at mobot.org/museum.