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Aug 21, 2011 8:22 PM CST
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Name: Fred Rump
Naples, Fl
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For more detail as to the founder and his sculpture wife see: http://www.brookgreen.org/hunt...

Because of her husband's enormous wealth and the shared interests of the couple, the Huntingtons were responsible for founding fourteen museums and four wildlife preserves. That's what you can do when you build the first transcontinental railroad.

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My grandson saying the Pledge ...
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There are way too many sculptures to show here but let me say that they are everywhere, in the open, in nooks, in fountains, in the forest - all beautifully placed in conjunction with nature. This is a work done by Anna Huntington to commemorate the couple and their vision
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Note the Live Oaks in the background. There must be hundreds on the 9200 acre property.
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I'm not really sure what to show here. I have about 150 pictures and all are beautiful.
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Aug 21, 2011 11:31 PM CST
Name: Sharon
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Amazing! I love the sculptures.
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Aug 22, 2011 7:23 AM CST
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Name: Fred Rump
Naples, Fl
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Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Bromeliad Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge) Region: United States of America Tropicals
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Ann Huntington was about as rich as rich can get but yet she spent most of her long time on earth sculpturing animals. She loved horses and was a world expert on the anatomy of this and other animals too. They are all over her garden. What a legacy she left. No children but a wondrous garden.
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Aug 22, 2011 8:51 AM CST
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THANK YOU!!!! I love that place I have been fortune enough to have gone twice. All my pictures of the gardens are on slides. Looks like they have added more statues sense I was last there.

This is a wonderful gardens so if any of y'all ever get up in that area please set a side a whole day to tour it. You will not be sorry!!
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Dec 28, 2011 5:28 AM CST
Name: Teresa Felty Barrow
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Stunning, I went several yrs ago and hope to go again soon. My nephew has moved his family to that area Smiling
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