Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. [SANTA BARBARA, CA – October 15, 2024] – To deliver on its mission to educate and inspire the public to the wonders of ...

A guided tour documents Lotusland in Montecito, a 37-acre estate-turned botanic garden with limited public access, highlighting why planning ahead matters. Founded by opera singer and socialite ...

Like many WWII-era émigrés to the United States, the ­Polish-born opera singer Madame Ganna Walska adored her adopted country. But California was its own magnificent world. The view from the ...

Ganna Walska Lotusland strives to provide access to a diverse population and enhance the community’s ability to experience this valuable horticultural resource, despite the fact that Lotusland must ...

In 1940, opera singer Madame Ganna Walska went to a yoga seminar in Manhattan at the behest of a friend. The showcase was led by Theos Bernard, a religious studies scholar who'd been a student of yoga ...

Ganna Walska Lotusland is the recipient of a $1 Million gift from an anonymous donor for the purposes of creating an endowment fund to sustain, in perpetuity, Lotusland’s historic Topiary Garden.

On the eccentric businessman Harold McCormick, his wife Ganna Walska & the inspiration behind Citizen Kane. Harold McCormick had emerged in the early 1910s from the society columns to become a media ...

Ganna Walska Lotusland is a dramatic 37-acre botanical wonder in Montecito, California, that showcases subtropical and tropical plants from around the world. Madame Walska herself had a flair for the ...

Ganna Walska d’Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, assertive Polish second wife of Chicago’s harvester tycoon, Harold Fowler McCormick, has three passions: Music, Perfume, Feminism. For Music she ...