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The Anne Spencer Garden

Visit the garden that inspired a Harlem Renaissance poet.

09/27/2022 | Rating TV-G

Virginia Home Grown

The Anne Spencer Garden

Clip: Season 22 Episode 7 | 8m 34sVideo has Closed Captions

Visit the garden that inspired a Harlem Renaissance poet.

Host Peggy Singlemann explores the Anne Spencer Garden in Lynchburg with the renowned poet’s granddaughter, Shaun Spencer-Hester, to learn how tending a garden functioned both as a refuge and as an inspiration for Anne Spencer. Featured on VHG episode 2207; September 2022.

09/27/2022 | Rating TV-G

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