On Sunday, September 22, 2024 Durand-Hedden House & Garden celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month with “Vanilla: The Global Voyage of a Mexican Spice.”
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Durand-Hedden News
Updated: Sep 30, 2024
In an area as small as Maplewood Village, every building and every business becomes a part of its fundamental character.
The Maplewood Theater building and the building that originally housed the Maplewood Bank & Trust Co., on the corner of Inwood Place, have been vacant since the pandemic, and the town is working with the property owners to find private developers for both sites. These two structures, as well as the storefronts between Inwood and Durand Road, are part of a redevelopment plan being created by Maplewood Township, with input from local citizens.
The Maplewood Theater was built in 1927 and has had many lives, as a place for vaudeville as well as live theater featuring stars such as Tallulah Bankhead, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Robeson, and, of course, movies, lots of movies. The Durand-Hedden House displayed an extensive exhibit on the theater in 2015. Read the newsletter based on that exhibit here.
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Join Durand-Hedden for "Vanilla: The Global Voyage of a Mexican Spice," a fun educational event this Sunday, September 22, from 1 pm to 4 pm, in honor of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month. Attend a lecture by a local author, taste vanilla treats, make Mexican-inspired crafts, tour our herb garden, and enjoy live Spanish guitar music at beautiful Grasmere Park. Many thanks to Lisa Mainardi for putting together this fun video. Free pre-registration at DurandHedden.org.
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