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Corinne Melchers

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January 3, 2024

Animal Lovers

No doubt about it, Gari and Corinne Melchers loved animals. The couple enjoyed dogs as pets and usually had at least one canine companion at all

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July 28, 2023

Spirit of an Artist

While his passing is a real loss to American art, the spirit of his work will always live. Adolph A Weinman, German-born American sculptor Our

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Mrs. Gari Melchers

September 23, 2020

Wife & Model

While headed to Italy on a transatlantic cruise ship in 1902 with her mother and younger brother, twenty-one year old art student Corinne Lawton

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MWC president Prince Woodard giving remarks at Belmont opening day Oct. 19 1975 Director Dick Reid sitting

November 22, 2015

Forty Years on the Hill

On October 19, 1975, Mary Washington College President Prince Woodard presided over the public opening of the Gari Melchers Memorial Gallery, making

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Paul Neyron

January 16, 2015

Winter Gardening

Winter is a good time to settle down with seed and plant catalogs and a nice cup of hot tea. The weather is freezing and gardeners are hiding inside,

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Tausendschön and American Pillar blooming on the arbors.

May 20, 2014

Belmont’s Roses

Since my first days at Belmont in 1999, I have combed through our archives looking for clues to what the buildings, gardens, and grounds looked like

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sundial

March 11, 2014

How to Read Belmont’s Sundial

During my periodic Director’s Tours and when I’m helping out with regular tours, visitors often ask me what that thing is mounted on the outside wall

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