April 4, 2022 Dorothea Lynde Dix, Maya Angelou, James A. Duke, Bucharest Botanical Garden, The Graphic Garden by Keith Williams, and Charles Joseph Sauriol

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1802 Birth of Dorothea Lynde Dix, Boston activist, writer, and schoolteacher.

As a young woman, she visited England and met the philanthropist and mental-health reformer Samuel Tuke, the director of the York Retreat. There, the patients tended the flower and vegetable gardens surrounding the buildings. Samual called his methods "moral treatment," His work inspired Dorothea to pursue new ways of treating mental…