Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

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Central Park Says Goodbye to Retiring Shakespeare Gardener

Larry Boes, Senior Gardener at Central Park's Shakespeare Garden in New York City retires.
Bronze plaques adorn the Shakespeare Garden in Central Park, matching colorful displays with the quotes from the Bard’s works that inspired them. PHOTO: Jane Feldman

To business that we love we rise betime, 
And go to ‘t with delight.

–William Shakespeare

The Bard might have been talking about Larry Boes when he wrote those words. For the past 15 years, the Central Park Conservancy Senior Gardener has gone to work in what just might be the most beautiful office in all of New York City—the Shakespeare Garden in Central Park—transforming it into a work of art worthy of its namesake.

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