THE SOUL OF SAG HARBOR

摘要

Edmund Hollander, FAS LA, likes to joke that he's preparing the landscape of his future home-but don't expect to see his latest project on the cover of Architectural Digest. Oaks for Oakland is a volunteer initiative to rehabilitate Oakland Cemetery, in Sag Harbor, New York, where the landscape architect has had a home for nearly 25 years. The cemetery, the resting place of such luminaries as the author Nelson Algren (1909-1981) and the choreographer George Balanchine (1904-1983), has served the village for nearly 175 years, and many of its trees, having weathered innumerable hurricanes and nor'easters over the centuries, are dead or dying, putting visitors and grave markers in danger. Among the many markers under threat is the Broken Mast Monument, a nearly 20-foot-high marble ship's mast erected in 1856 that is dedicated to the whalers who lost their lives at sea.