Roseland

Living Memory

Visitors continue to come to my studio to see what I do and make roses. The most moving story is Bernhard's, who made a twin rose in memory of his twin brother who died.

BBC Visits Roseland

Richard Uridge visited the Roseland Peninsula for the BBC radio programme, Open country. The Roseland Peninsula is a finger of coastline on the Cornish Riviera. The Lizard shelters the region from the worst of the weather and there’s a huge range of landscape to explore. Richard was intrigued by the way shags often have pink seafans lining their nests, almost like their upholstery, because it seems they are consciously adding them solely for the decoration. To listen to the programme go to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/opencountry_20030628.shtml

From News From Roseland Vol 1, Issue 3, 6 June 2006

Pink Mini Honoured in Roseland

Design student Yvette had her mini refurbished for the summer and chose to colour it pink. Her visit to Roseland reminded her of her mini, so she has prepared a Roseland postcard especially to send it.

From News From Roseland Vol 1, Issue 3, 6 June 2006

Roseland in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Roseland in the city of Chicago is located in “Community Area 49”, 13 miles south of the Loop. The village of Roseland had its origins in 1849, when a band of recently arrived Dutch families built their homes along the Chicago Thornton Road.

Perched on the ridge west of Lake Calumet between what is now 103rd and 111th Streets, High Prairie, as it was then known, took shape around the Reformed Church, the small truck farms, and the stores located on the road later known as Micigan Avnue. High Prairie prospered, its farms made profitable by Chicago to its north and the stockyards to the west.

Its population grew, most often by additional Dutch settlers who, after 1852, arrived from the east at the Michigan Central Railroad station in nearby Kensington.

In l873, James H Bowen, president of the Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock Company, suggested the name Roseland for the tidy village with its beautiful flowers. Residents agreed.

To find out more about the history of Roseland in Chicago, go to
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1094.html

From News From Roseland Vol 1, Issue 3, 6 June 2006-08-30

Visitors to Roseland

To date 1,429 people have visited Roseland at Bonhoga. Visitors are all ages, and one girl has never wanted to spend so much time in the Bonhoga Gallery as during her visit to Roseland.

Some visitors have come back for extra visits, and some have had very surprising reactions. A few people have felt physically ill. For others Roseland has triggered special memories. One woman was reminded of her wedding which was centred entirely on a rose theme.

The postcard exchange continues to be very popular with over two hundred cards being posted so far to places as far away from Shetland as Japan.

One postcard is going to “The Pink Fairy, Pinkville, in a place very far away.”

From News From Roseland, Volume 1, Issue 4, 13 June 2006

Echolalia Souvenirs

Echolalia contributed souvenirs from her visits to Roselands around the world. Mementoes are from all over the world, including Venice, Philadelphia, Russia and England. A Venetian mask especially made by artisan Sabrina has become Echolalia’s favourite item. Unusually for a Venetian mask, it is pink with silver and darker pink embellishments. Echolalia has been living and working in Venice since 2001.

From News From Roseland, Volume 1, Issue 4, 13 June 2006

Steep Connections

A French visitor to Roseland at Bonhoga has initiated a contact with Roseland in France. Cormet de Roselend is 1,968 metres high and is located in the northern French Alps. It has been included in the Tour de France. It is one of the prettiest climbs in the French Alps and was voted the “favourite pass” by French cyclists.

From News From Roseland, Volume 1, Issue 4, 13 June 2006

Extracts From A History of Roseland, Adams County, Nebraska, USA

Although the town of Roseland did not exist until 1887, a post office by that name had been established in August 1875 when Benjamin F. Evans was appointed postmaster. The post office was located in Mr Evans’ home in the northeast quarter of Section 22, Roseland Township.

Mr Evans chose the name Roseland because of the many wild roses which grew in the vicinity. School District 42, later known as the Roseland School, was organised on January 30, 1874. The first schoolhouse was a one-room frame building located one mile east of the present village. In 1888 a two-storey frame school building, with two rooms on each floor, was erected in the new village of Roseland.

From News From Roseland, Vol 1, Issue 3, 6 June 2006

Hamnavoe School Pupils Visit Roseland at Bonhoga Gallery

Pupils from P5, P6 and P7 kicked off the Roseland Plant Exchange. Each pupil brought a plant that they swapped for a Roseland plant, donated by Pure Shetland (a local collective of plant nurseries).

From News From Roseland, Volume 1, Issue 2, 30 May 2006

Pupils Mobilise Garden Shed for Roseland in Roydon

Pupils at Roydon Primary School in Essex, England, are "in the pink" over Roseland in Roydon. Epping Forest Arts has organised a project about sheds and village greens around the district. Roydon is one of five villages taking part in the project, called Common or Garden. It involves an artist working with the community to create an event unique to the parish.

Roxane Permar has been working with Year 5 pupils ( 9 to 10 year olds) to customise their shed in advance of the village plant exchange. The shed is currently on wheels in the school playground where the pupils have painted it bright pink and begun decorating it. Head teacher, Marilyn Oparah, laughed, "it's an absolutely vivid pink!" Everythng in the shed will also be pink, including trowles, labels, watering cans, seed packets and hanging baskets.

Year 5 pupils have prepared seeds to exchange with another primary school in Shetland.

From News From Roseland, Volume 1, Issue 2, 30 May 2006