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Article: Color on campus: from the seeds of a family's gift and an artistic vision, a unique garden blossoms in a collegiate setting.
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- Mississippi Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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A chorus of birds flies overhead, winged shadows superimposed upon the gravel-strewn pathway, as the spring breeze nudges weary students to seek comfort on a gently rocking garden swing. The sounds of a gushing fountain drift from a latticed pergola, intimately entangled with curling ivy, which shades teak benches from walkways that pulse with life. The Nicholson Garden, a little corner of Eden at Jackson's Millsaps College, has transformed a once sterile space between academic buildings into an abode of tranquil nature.
Before the garden, the area between the Christian Center and Murrah Hall was a simple and utilitarian set of triangular paths intercepted by ...
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