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#November 26, 1810
#OTD Henry Winthrop Sargent, American #Horticulturist, is born.He named his 20-acre #Estate on the #Hudson River #Wodenethe (woody promontory). A reporter said it was a #Wretched, bad #Name.
Henry used #Trees to frame beautiful #Vistas. After 40 years, he reflected,
“The first ten years, I did everything wrong. The next five I spent correcting my mistakes.”
Wodenethe became a #Sanatorium. Rosemary #Kennedy, #JFK's disabled #Sister, lived there in #Secret in the 1940s.