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fluence on agriculture, horticulture, and botany in piedmont
North Carolina as reflected in their gardens and orchards, the
following objectives are proposed:
1. To explain the European, specifically German influence
on garden design and on horticultural and agricultural
practices in Bethabara and Salem
.2. To explain the communal system of gardening and house-
keeping established in the pioneer settlement of
Bethabara
3. To interpret the change from a comunal to self-suffi-
cient garden system in which individual backyard gar-
dens were tended by Moravians in Salem
4. To emphasize the Moravian's love and dependence on the
natural world, their desire to better understand its
seeming mysteries, and their appreciation of its utility
and beauty.
Each of these objectives is fully detailed in the companion
piece to this plan, A Manual for Garden and Land,scape Interpre-
tation. The realization of these objectives provides a wealth
of interpretive material for Old Salem gardens and landscapes.
Interpretive Methods and Media
The third step in the overall progression of garden inter-
pretive planning at Old Salem involves the transition from the
conceptual level to the physical implementation of a program of
visitor orientation and interpretation, It is at this stage
that specific interpretive media and methods are chosen from the
wide realm of possibilities.
Orientation is essential for all visitors to historic Old
Salem buildings and gardens. In public gardens, orientation
gives casual visitors directional information for finding their
way around the gardens and locating what they wish to see. In
Old Salem visitor orientation creates an awareness of the recreated
gardens and sparks an interest in actually seeing them.
Although each audience segment has specific needs, it is
for the benefit of casual visitors that the ideas expressed in
this prospectus are directed. With this in mind, the cost-
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