After 73 years, it has fallen to the club’s president to disperse the club’s remaining funds and turn out the lights.
Chris Keller is the last president of the 73-year-old Metropolitan Washington Garden Club, formerly the Men's Garden Club of Montgomery County. By Adrian Higgins and Adrian Higgins Gardening columnist Email Bio Follow Adrian Higgins Adrian Higgins Gardening columnist Email Bio Follow April 21 at 8:17 PM Chris Keller is sitting at a table in the living room of his leafy Garrett Park home.
The demise of the club marks the end of an era in the metropolis — a small, unnoticed thing, perhaps, except its passing seems to signal the end, too, of a fading social fabric that came to define life in Washington after World War II.The club was created by a handful of men in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase area at a time when the sexes were less socially integrated and most garden clubs were for women.
The club was noteworthy for a number of unusual aspects, including a very readable monthly newsletter written by the journalist members who called it the Saturday Leaning Post, a play on the once mighty Saturday Evening Post. A host of members and guest experts wrote and published several editions of a practical guide called “Successful Gardening in the Greater Washington Area,” the last edition of which published in 1990.
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