This year’s Garden Party will celebrate spring and the arts.   Guests will be greeted by bagpiper Ed Jarvis playing tunes from the top of Hawk Tower and, during the course of the afternoon, will be able to enjoy listening to Una Jeffers’ fully restored 1904 Steinway Model O Grand Piano played by Melinda Coffey Armstead and Barbara Rudzicka, and to the Celtic trio John Weed & Sons (Tyler and Evan). Artists from Monterey Bay Plein Air Painters Association will have plein air paintings of Tor House and Hawk Tower for sale, a percent of the sales going to Tor House.  Santa Cruz weaver Kris Nardello will give a demonstration of spinning using the spinning wheel brought from County Down, Northern Ireland, by Una Jeffers’ grandmother, Elizabeth Donnan Lindsay, in 1841.

Master printers Peter and Donna Thomas and artist Tom Killion will be present to celebrate their limited-edition broadside--hand-printed on hand-made paper--featuring Jeffers’ poem “the polar ice-caps” and Killion’s single block relief print of Hawk Tower (shown in the poster below). There will be a limited number of broadsides available for sale with all proceeds going to Tor House. See the example of the broadside below the poster image.

Also available are copies of The Fire of Heaven: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Robinson Jeffers, the catalogue for Martínez Celaya’s Monterey Museum of Art exhibit held last year.

There will be food and drink, with Sweet Elena’s Bakery providing tasty treats.

Parking is limited, so please consider carpooling. Please do not block our neighbors’ driveways. Weather changes quickly on the coast, so bring layers. Masks are required when touring inside Tor House.