Brookgreen Gardens History

[@bethw7]

Wonderful! I have many fond memories of visiting Brookgreen as a child in the 1970s. I remember the gardens as magical worlds and the statues as my friends. Visiting now as an adult, I still experience the same wonder and joy. It's timeless.

[@marthabradas8873]

Wonderfully informative and nicely produced! Thank you for presenting this video!

[@TheMrBenjaminz]

Took my family to Brookgreen this past week while on our first trip to the area, incredible to experience for certain. We enjoyed it so much ws wound up going two consecutive days. Art, history, nature are all wonderful reasons to check it out if you haven't already.

[@joycekoch5746]

I remember going to the Brookgreen gardens some 60 years ago. I remember many of the sculptures but I recall most being taken of one called 'Boy with Squirrel' and 'Boy with Frog'.

[@BrookgreenGardensSC]

Joyce, we have a video coming up this weekend that you will want to see! Boy With Squirrel is featured. :-)

[@joycekoch5746]

@@BrookgreenGardensSC Wonderful. I was taken with this statue as a young teen - I think I never saw anything so beautiful in all my life and I remember sitting down in front of it and just looking at it for a long time. It was a very moving experience.

[@joycekoch5746]

@@BrookgreenGardensSC Back in the 1950's when at Brookgreen I asked the staff about Boy with Squirrel and I was told the boy who modeled for it was the same boy who appeared in boy with frog. I was told he was 12 when he did the modeling for Elsie Ward Hering in the Summer of 1903. I was also told about 6-7 years later he was a art student himself and doing his own artwork. I was curious if you have his name and if any works he later did and does any of his work appear in the garden? If all of this is correct he would have been born in 1891.

[@TheresaofTheWorld]

Where is this? It would be nice to know

[@BrookgreenGardensSC]

Brookgreen Gardens is located near Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. www.brookgreen.org

[@shauncronin3961]

Ty 17 south between Murrells inlet and Pawleys Island

[@DivahStyle]

It’s so interesting to me how the video discusses the genteel lifestyle but no mention is made of how enslaved labor made everything possible.

[@LaurenCobbJoseph29440]

We actually are very aware of that and are in the process of shooting a new film right now. Hope to have it ready to release later this fall!

[@MichelleLuvn25]

Soooooooo we’re romanticizing slavery ok gotcha 🤨🤦🏽‍♀️

[@monifab3587]

That part 🧐

[@masdojo]

My thoughts exactly. These southern plantations profiting off of the horrors of slavery, and making it sound like some "Gone with the wind" fairytale. It's pathetic.

[@Theblackbumblebee]

We have created, built and made everything in the United States

[@seanohelan8241]

WHY DO YOU ROMATICIZE THE SLAVE OWNING HISTORY?????????????????????

[@MichelleLuvn25]

This !!!! They always try to turn it into a damn love story 🤨

[@holdenmonaro2427]

I guarantee you made this comment on a mobile device made in Asia using slave labor. Your home is likely filled with lithium batteries which require cobalt, a toxic substance being mined by African children in the Congo for less than a dollar a day. Spare me your first world virtue signaling. Those who live in glass houses…

[@kimsky777]

It is obvious that the critics didn’t watch the video. It was very interesting and I am looking forward to visiting it.