Click anywhere on the pictures above for photographer Deborah Triplett's
online slide show of photos from the Garden Party.

 

 

 

 

 

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from under the big tent during the Friendship Trays Garden Party.

 

 

 

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of food served at the Garden Party.

 

 

 

 

Listen below to The Green Man (aka Hardin Minor) leads the crowd in "Inch By Inch, Row By Row"
to celebrate the rebuilt Friendship Garden.

Listen below to address by Thom Duncan, founder
of Slow Food Charlotte.

 

 

 

 

Click picture above for more mountain bluegrass music
from John Singleton on violin
and   on acoustic guitar

 

 

 

 

Listen below to comments by Bruce Parker, CEO of Parker Medical
and donor of property developed for the Friendship Garden.

 

 

 

 

Click picture above for scenes in or near the garden during the party.

 

 

 

 

Click picture above for short tribute to Kay Minor,

designer of the revamped Friendship Garden

 

 

 

 

Guests waiting to register were kept in stitches by
famed cook Julia Child (aka Hardin Minor) who prepared a meal

by whacking a rubber chicken. Listen below to a greeting.

 

 

 

Listen in below as violinist Laurel Talley serenades the crowds under a half-moon high in the sky.

 

 

 

 

 

Click above for a short movie of thank-yous to some of the supporters
of the Friendship Trays Garden Party.