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5) Grey Gardens
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Criterion collection volume 123
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.
6) Grey Gardens
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did their grasp on reality. They were reintroduced to the world...
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English
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Has North America taken too many risks with its agriculture? In Gardens of Destiny we meet Dan Jason, an organic gardener on Salt Spring Island, on the Canadian west coast. Jason is the head of the Seed and Plant Sanctuary for Canada, a network of gardeners from around the world working to preserve as much plant diversity as possible. This film explores Dan's garden and seed world and investigates with several sustainable development specialists such...
Series
Criterion collection volume 361
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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English
Description
East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a successful Broadway musical, an HBO film, and Albert, the...
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Earth's Garden volume 4
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English
Description
In this episode, Ken enters the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to find the some of the world's oldest, biggest, and strangest plants - frozen in time for future use.
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Science of Gardening volume 14
Language
English
Description
While it seems intuitive that vegetables grown in your home garden will be safer and healthier than those purchased at the supermarket, that could be a dangerous assumption. Does your garden soil contain elements of concern, especially cadmium or lead? If so, learn how to best respond - whether in plant choices or creative garden design.
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Weird Homes volume 8
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English
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Life-sized scarecrows, huge boulders and thousands of flowers. In Nova Scotia, the place is known as 'Angela's Scarecrows' and Angela talks to each and every one of these backyard creatures who have all become her friends.
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Home Made volume 6
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English
Description
A mosaic artist has created a colorful destination in the heart of Philadelphia.
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Understanding Japan A Cultural History volume 13
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English
Description
Japanese gardens are popular tourist destinations, cultural treasures, and even UNESCO heritage sites. Here, consider the splendor and harmony of some of Japan's most important gardens (including tea gardens, rock gardens, and strolling gardens) as part of a history of aesthetics and also as expressions of religious and cultural ideals.
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Great Tours England Scotland and Wales volume 30
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English
Description
Because of its mild and wet climate, Britain is well suited for flowers, and England has a proud history of gardening going back to the 1500s. In this visually rich episode, tour some of the most stunning gardens in the nation today, including the Botanic Garden at Oxford University; Kew Gardens in London; and others, grand and obscure, throughout the provinces.
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Notorious London A City Tour volume 7
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English
Description
Especially popular with the aristocracy and the aspiring middle classes, the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens were 12 acres of woods and gravel walks on the South Bank of the Thames. Experience some of the scandalous stories of overindulgence, social interaction, sex, pleasure, and danger that abounded in and around this quintessentially 18th-century public place.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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With permission from Queen Elizabeth, this program covers a year in Buckingham Palace Garden, exploring the history and the natural history of this remarkable hidden royal treasure in the heart of London.
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1 videodisc (55 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Martin Dohrn, a veteran wildlife cameraman and bee enthusiast, embarked on a special challenge during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020: to film all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England. By the end of the summer, he became bee obsessed and developed relationships with some individuals. Dohrn saw more than 60 species of bees that come in all shapes and sizes, from Britain's largest bumblebees to scissor bees, which are the...
20) Master gardener
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Master Gardener follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan existence, unlocking dark secrets from a buried violent past that threaten...
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