Old Camellias Thrive at Middleton Place Gardens
The first camellias planted in the New World still thrive at Middleton Place Gardens near Charleston, South Carolina. Gifted by French botanist Andre Michaux in 1797, the plants endure at gardens begun in 1741 by Henry Middleton, president of the First Continental Congress.
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Crystal City born Tomas Rivera, 1935, winner of the 1971 Quinto Sol Award for The Earth Did Not Part, a Texas writer famed for migrant life inspired fiction. He spent youth as a migrant worker in Texas and Midwest, later teaching at UT San Antonio and shaping Chicano literature with works linking Southwest life and national recognition.
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