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The two RV Gypsies at the Topiary Park
480 E. Town Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
July 15, 2020

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historyTopiary Park(officially the Old Deaf School Park) is a 9.2-acre public park and garden in Columbus, Ohio's Discovery District, with a pond, picnicking, and a walking trail.

The park is formally known as Deaf School Park, or Old Deaf School Park, as it was part of the campus of the Ohio School for the Deaf. It is owned by the city of Columbus and maintained by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. There was no fee to enter the park, but it did cost to park the car either at a street meter or in a pay-for-parking-lot.

Dispatch - Ohiio's newspaper Topiary Garden plaque

FYI: Topiary is a noun meaning the art or practice of clipping shrubs or trees into ornamental shapes aka the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees and shrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful. The term also refers to plants which have been shaped in this way.

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Karen Duquette by a flower garden Deaf School Park sign

The topiary garden, officially the Topiary Garden at Old Deaf School Park, is designed to depict figures from George Seurat's 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. It is the only park based entirely on a painting, at this time.

Below:"As He Saw It" represents how Seurat saw the scene as he was painting it.

As He Saw It plaque
The topiary garden Lee Duquette
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squirrel in a tree

The Pond is meant to represent the River Seine and was installed in late 1989, as were the artificial hills.

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