Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens: Tribute to Minnie Evans

The Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens A Tribute to Minnie Evans Fred Wharton and Susan Taylor Block

978-0-9791403-6-5 $19.95 paperback 9 X 7 32 pages 50+ full-color photographs The Publishing Laboratory of UNC-Wilmington Available in APRIL

Minnie Evans is considered one of America's most important visionary artists. Evans's take on color, mysticism, and symmetry made her garden-infused art unique. Wharton chronicles the inspiration, design, and construction of the Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens, a tribute to Minnie Evans. With over fifty full-color photographs and a narrative based on interviews with all eight Bottle Chapel artists, this book collects, for the first time, the story of Minnie Evans, her visionary art, and the garden that now memorializes her. about the authors Fred Wharton, a native of Great Britain, taught Elizabethan drama at Glasgow University in Scotland, and then at Augusta College in Georgia, where he chaired the English department. A member of Airlie Gardens Guild, he is married to Rosemary DePaolo, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Susan Taylor Block, a Wilmington native, is the author of a number of Wilmington history books including Airlie: The Garden of Wilmington. Currently Airlie historian, she served as a screenwriter for the documentary Beneath the Airlie Oak and is a published poet. (also available on Amazon.com)