Some Art Works and CLASS-sponsored events (receptions, fundraisers) are held at the Litchfield Exchange; others (Moveable Feasts, Kimbel Concert Series, and Women's Retreats) are held other locations.

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573 - Floating Camellias: Rose Hill in Black & White Instructor: Stephanie Wilds Dates: Jan 1, 1970 to Jan 1, 1970 Time: From 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM Materials: Wholesale at CLASS LLC; retail at My Sister's Books Class Cost: $25.00 Is Class Open? yes Description: Stephanie Wilds' is a layered story, simply told but not simple. With her clear-eyed memory focused on the sweep of societal change, she travels back to the origins of her family roots in the South Carolina horse country, revisiting the traditions and expectations that accompanied life among Aiken's upper class for a child of the sixties. Young Wilds spirals through Rose Hill, the elaborate garden estate of her great aunt where ceremony and strict rules of conduct collide with faltering fortunes, collapsing social barriers, and her artist mother's egalitarian compassion. The cross-cultural relationships between the author and the house and garden staff, as well as the surrounding community “outside the walls,” are vividly etched with poignant tonal echoes of "Grey Gardens" and "The Help." In ways, hers was an idyllic childhood; in others, a harsh lesson in the reality of enduring racial and economic divides. For so many sensitive souls, escaping the conflict north or west is the only respite from conditions both intolerable and irreparable. For Stephanie, years away from Rose Hill brought her the skills and vision to return and "make things right." Her painstaking restoration of the lost gardens – long in ruins and out of the family – as a hired landscaper in service with the original groundskeeper, is a triumphant march against the -isms that plague us.