Join us at the library for a reading of Reef Point, a new one-act play about the Bar Harbor estate of the legendary landscape architect Beatrix Farrand and about her sudden decision in 1954 to dismantle her home and sell off the gardens. It’s a play about facing massive changes late in life, about legacy, about surrendering a dream, about downscaling and recalibrating. Reef Point is a play about a lost garden, and a found one. 

The cast for the reading includes local actors Phoebe Barnes, Mary Heffernon, Christopher Josephs, Katie Migdal, and Cindy Robbins. The play is by Southwest Harbor playwright  Carolyn Gage. 

Image: A scene from “Reef Point” as lady’s maids Maisie Murphy (Katie Migdal) and Clem Walter (Cindy Robbins) wrestle with the 1955 destruction of Reef Point, Beatrix Farrand’s shoreline garden considered one of the horticultural gems of New England.

Photo by Dezirae Zaman. 

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