Paradise Gardens is Open!
Wednesday through Saturday 12-5PM
Call Artist, Whitney Nave Jones, at 423-619-8154
or
For More Information and Restoration
Call Chairman, Tommy Littleton, at 205-587-3090
Website:
finstersparadisegardens.org
Paradise Gardens, Park & Museum, Incorporated is a Georgia Non-Profit
Organization
and continues restoration as revenues are generated.
Visit the newly restored Gallery and view the new developments in the park.
Your monetary funding and laborious donations
are greatly in need and appreciated at Paradise Gardens.
BE A PART Of IT!
Pray for God to Bless
Howard Finster's Paradise Garden
and the participants in the restoration.
May God's Will Be Done
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The Howard Finster Monument |
The Howard Finster Monument was unveiled
at the Howard Finster Memorial service on Sunday, December 2, 2001. It would
have been Howard Finster's 85th birthday. The monument sits underneath the
Chapel dome. It is a black marble etching designed by Carl McKlesky in 1991.
Carl is a local resident of Summerville, Georgia, near Paradise Gardens.
The Marble pieces were attached to the rock like monument to preserve the
etching and in honor of a treasured, world re-known, folk artist.
Dec. 2, 1916 -
Oct. 22, 2001.