On Friday night, friends and supporters of the Spencertown Academy gathered in the garden of Liz Diggs and Emily McCully to celebrate the next day's Hidden Gardens Tour. As always, the Academy's in-house catering team, Let's Eat, aka 4 Guys in Aprons, kept everyone's blood sugar on an even keel. Among the revelers, the next day's guest lecturer, photographer Mick Hales.
Let's Eat founder Jerry Berger, Gourmet Magazine editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl, and Ellen Clarkson.
Real Simple gardening editor Madaline Sparks and Anne Cipkowski; food blogger Paige Orloff and screenwriter John Orloff
Spencertown Academy President Kate Cohen and Tannery Pond Concerts board chair Cynthia Puccio; Karen Solem and Chuck Foreman
The evening's hosts Playwright Liz Diggs and children's book author and illustrator Emily McCully; Artist Christine Hales and photographer Mick Hales
Let's Eat meat: carvers Steve Cohen (beef tenderloin), Michael Chesloff (smoked turkey) and Allan Davidson (grilled lamb); not pictured Jerry Berger (ham)
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
- Oxygen House Photo
