Brookgreen Gardens Tourist Attraction The Year

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Brookgreen Gardens Tourist Attraction The Year-Round
THE FIGHTING STALUONS,' sculptured by Anna Hyatt
Huntington, greets visitors at the entrance to Brookgreen
Gardens.
MRS. ANNA HYATT HUNTINGTON, world famous sculp
tress is pictured with her beloved deerhounds at her South
Carolina home.
THIS SKETCH OF A REFUGEE resting at a roadside is
one of the many outstanding works of Anna Hyatt Hun
tington.
ANNA HUNTMGTON PVT HEART INTO GARDENS
Sculptress Brought Fame To Brookgreen
By MAUDE WADDELL
Special T» Tb« Observer
GEORGETOWN, S.C.-South
Carolina's popular coastal
beauty spot, Brookgreen Gar
dens and Sanctuary, is a yearround attraction which brings
thousands of tourists to its
beautiful grounds.
Situated off Highway No. 17,
many tourists traveling north
and south stop to take in the
beauty of nature, culture and
art sprinkled over approxi
mately 10,000 acres by the Waceamaw river and the sea.
The griding hand b e b I n 4
this project of beauty belong!
to Mri. Anna Hyatt Hontlngton, world-famous sculptreia,
who founded It with her hus
band, the late Archer Milton
Hantlnfton, and later gave It
to the State of South Caro
lina.
She takes special interest and
care of the Gardens today and
rejoices that no living bird or
creature may be killed in the
thousands of acres of Sanctuary
which she and her husband pro
vided for the preservation of
the flora and the fauna of the]
South.
Mrs. Huntington's home, "Atalaya", is located opposite the
beautiful gardens and is mod
eled after a Moorish fortress in
Spain. At present, Mrs. Hunt
ington is residing at her coun
try estate, "Stangerigg Farm,"
near Bethel, Conn.
Two of her most famous
sculptures are Joan of Arc
and the Spanish grandee, the
CM, both tn New York and In
Europe, with small replicas
In the Brookgreen Gardens.
A massive work, the "FightIng Stallions" adorns the en
trance to the gardens which
contain many other of Mrs.
Huntington's famous works.
Nov. 24, 1957
PEOPLE AND THINGS
Brookgreen Gardens:
A Laboratory for Art
(Gardens, found on a tract of
land between the Waccamaw
River and the sea in George
town County, are as varied as
people-and life. Arthur Milton
Huntington, the husband of
the noted American sculp
tress. Anna Hyatt Huntington,
created them for the preserva
tion of flora and fauna of the
southeast and to contain the
sculpture of his wife. In so
doing it was "a quiet joining
of hands between science and
Native beauty, stripped of
a rt." The original plan has
all pretens*. all sham
found extension, to use Mr.
Proclaims itself, says to all
"I am"
Huntington's words, in an out
line collection re .esentative
Bacchante, Aphrodite in
of the history of Amancan
their abandon cool
Sculpture, from t h e nine
Before Diana, and the vir
teenth century, which finds its
gin whiteness of a girl
natural setting out of doors.
beside a pool.
Its object is the presentation
of the natural life of a Eiven
The moods of Brookgreen
By GEORGIA H. HART
Live oaks green, bark
gnarled, majestic and
brown
Gray limbs swaying, moss
sweeping the ground
Young lovers on ivybordered, shadow -pattern
ed walks
Stroll arm in arm where
monumental native beauty
talks.
district as a museum, and as
it is a garden, and gardens
have from early times been
rightly embellished by the art
of the sculptor, tha'_ princi
ple has found expression in
American creative art.
The beauty of Brookgarden
Is an exquisite blending of
aesthetic and scientific as
pects. Nature is the teacher
and in the eye of the beholder,
the impact invokes Alexander
Pope: "All are but parts of
on« stupendous whole, whose
body nature is, and God the
soul." Throughout the garden
poets are called upon and re
corded in stone.
On the way in to Brookgreen gardens, s zoo is found.
The horned owl blinks and
turns his head around, the
gray fox goes to sleep in the
branches of a tree. The otters
R! ide down their slide and
swim daringly around their
rectangular raceway until
time nears for their feeding.
Then they impat'ently paco
before the gate of their cage
and look expectantly in the
direction of the keepers house,
their long bodies shining, their
my noses twit
whiskers quivering.
In the near vicinity Is a
deer park and a wild water
fowl pond. On the way back
out alligators may be watched
in a lagoon, and wild turkeys,
protected by a fence, can be
seen in flocks near the side
of the road, a gobbler strut
ting with his tail outspread.
Anna Hyatt Huntington is
best known for her an imal
sculpture, many magnificent
and inspiring pieces of which
arc contained within the gar
den. In her early training she
modeled domestic animals on
a farm at Porto Bello, Mary
land, and wild animals at the
new York Zoological Park.
Brjokgarden is understand
ably a scientific laboratory for
art: fauna, and native floratrees and plants artistic, com
mon and rare. The magnifi
cent oak, the oalmetto, bushes
of beautiful roses, pale laven
der Stokes asters. Huger's
Tri Ilium.
A new section oi" Brookgreen has been opened that
is dominated by a beautiful
ic of Arthur
Milton and Anna Hyatt Hunt
Ington. The "Inscription for
Garden Gate" that lea<i
therein is as follows:
"Pause, friend, and read be
fore you enter here
This vine-clad will encloses
holy ground
Herein a mellower garden
dreams away the years
Steeped in serene sweet
light and muted sound
Herein tranquility and peace
abide
For God walks here in cool
of evening tide
Pause, friend, and strip
from out your heart
All vanity, all bitterness, all
hate
Quench for this hour the
fever of your fears
Then treading softly pass
within this gate
There where the ancient
trees wait hushed and dim
May you find God and walk
awhile with him. Pear!
Council Htott."