Big 50th Birthday Evokes Memories for Sherri, Lynn Gill
Sheri and Lynn Gill. Photo by David Fairchild The big 50th birthday party is over, but the memory lingers on. That memory may be the most recent for Dr. Lynn E. Gill, president of the South Coast Botanic Garden Foundation, which hosted the all-day, April 17, event on spacious and blooming grounds of the South Coast Botanic Garden. And while all the speeches, food booths, children’s activities, art show, junior golf, free music, garden tram tours and plant sales are now a thing of the past, Gill has added another satisfying reminder of how many years his life has focused on a strong attachment to the land. It all began, he said, when he was growing up on an 80-acre cherry and apple farm with his family on the Leelanau Peninsula—“the little finger,” he called it–in northern Michigan, near Traverse City. “I was living in a beautiful place and I wanted to preserve it,” he said by way of explaining his first venture into conservancy, when he became a member of the Leelanau Conservancy. “Conservancy is just a pattern in my life—to keep nature’s natural beauty,” he went on during a recent interview in the Foundation’s office at the Botanic Garden on Crenshaw Boulevard. Harking back to…
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