Strawberry Fields officially reopened on October 9, , the 45th anniversary of John Lennon's birth. Annually, on this date, as well as on the anniversary of John Lennon's death, visitors and fans from all over the globe flock to Strawberry Fields to pay homage to this Beatles' legacy. Visit Strawberry Fields on a horse and carriage tour , bike tour , pedicab tour , or walking tour. The iconic black and white Imagine mosaic was designed by a team of artists from the Italian city of Naples.
Named after another famous song by John Lennon, "Imagine" evokes a vision and hope for a world without strife, war and conflict. Additionally, there is a bronze plaque that lists the more than countries that planted flowers and donated money for the maintenance of the area; they have also endorsed Strawberry Fields as a Garden of Peace.
John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono lived in the Dakota Apartments adjacently located to this area of the park. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a local law of The City of New York, passed by the Council on March 26, , and approved by the Mayor on April 16, After the passage of the bill, Yoko Ono Lennon wrote to the Parks Department, proposing that the area known as Strawberry Fields, which is about 5.
She offered to pay for all the work done, and contribute to a fund whose interest would help pay the salary of a gardener to maintain the area.
It took four years to secure the necessary approvals, design and build Strawberry Fields. One point, however, should be made here. We proposed the resolution and the name change without any contact with her, and without any plan for the improvement of the area. She called Mayor Koch on her own to make the offer, and the mayor referred her call to then-Commissioner Gordon Davis and Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, co-founder of the Central Park Conservancy in and the dues ex machina of the restoration of Central Park.
It happens to be where John and I took our last walk together. John would have been very proud that this was given to him, and island named after his song, rather than a statue or monument.
My initial thought was to acquire some English and Japanese plants and give them to the park commission to to be planted in Strawberry Fields. But somehow that idea was not quite in the spirit of things. Then I remembered what John and I did when we first met over ten years ago.
We planted and acorn in England as a symbol of our love. We then sent acorns to all the heads of state around the world, inviting them to do the same.
Many responded saying that they enjoyed the experience. The plants will eventually be forests, the rocks will be a resting place for traveling souls, the bricks will pave the lane John and I used to walk on and the circle where we used to sit and talk for hours.
It will be nice to have the whole world in one place, one field, living and growing together in harmony. This will be the nicest tribute we could ever give to John. The acorn we planted a decade ago is now a tree. I would like to obtain a twig from it to be transplanted on the island. Maybe we could add a moonstone or a pebble from Mars, so as not to shut out the universe. The invitation is open! Let me take you to Strawberry Fields.
Thomas, New York Times August 22, Mayor Koch and Gordon J. Davis, the Parks Commissioner, said yesterday that Strawberry Fields, a triangular area of Central Park named in honor of the late John Lennon, would undergo landscape restoration. The plan was developed in response to a letter from Mr. The naming of Strawberry Fields in honor of Mr.
Stern, as a City Councilman at Large from Manhattan, sponsored a bill naming the three-acre site. Yoko Ono looked up at the cold, rainy sky over Central Park yesterday. The plot, just east of 72d Street and Central Park West, is a few hundred yards from the spot where the former Beatle was shot dead on Dec.
Among the plantings of trees, 1, shrubs, 25, vines and 18, perennials will be 25, strawberry plants, said Henry J.
Stern, the Parks Commissioner. Stern said. Several hundred young admirers strained behind police barricades.
But he was more. He was a musical prophet, so honest and true, not violent or pretentious. The leaves are beginning to turn in Central Park and the first chill forebodings of winter are in the air. But it is the season of rebirth for the year-old park. Lawns are being resodded and reseeded. Arches and playgrounds are being rebuilt. Hundreds of flowering shrubs, trees and bushes are being planted as paths are redirected, underbrush is cleared and the original vistas are restored.
One of the most extensive landscaping projects is Strawberry Fields, just inside the 72d Street gate on Central Park West. It will be planted with exotic specimen trees and covered with the white flowers and tiny red fruit of wild strawberry plants. At times, Bruce Kelly concedes, the construction of Strawberry Fields seemed to be taking forever.
And it was hard for Mr. Kelly, 36 years old, a soft-spoken Southerner. He recalled some of those hurdles as he toured the three and a half acres that have been transformed since from a scrubby-looking patch with many dying trees to a softly rolling garden full of uncommon greenery. The opening ceremony, with Mayor Koch and Miss Ono and an array of international diplomats, is to be held today on the birthdays of both Mr. Lennon, who would have been 45, and his son Sean, who turns The Dakota apartment house, where Mr.
Lennon lived and, on Dec. There are trees, 5, shrubs and 20, perennials. From the late Princess Grace of Monaco, there are dogwoods; from the Soviet Union, river birches; from the Canadians, maples, and from the Dutch, daffodil bulbs. Kelly said. Are people allowed to do this? Yes and no. It had been named in honor of Lennon in The landscape architect Bruce Kelly designed a meditative Garden of Peace.
At the western point of the garden, Neapolitan artisans designed a circular black and white mosaic emblem to be embedded into the pavement. Strawberry Fields was dedicated Oct. Kitts-Nevis St.
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