Intro And Origins of Dutch Connection

Welcome to the George Eastman Museum. My name is Dan Bellavia, I am the landscape manager here. Today I'm here to talk to you about the Dutch Connection, the annual Forced Bulb Show that has run every February here at the George Eastman Museum. This event was inspired from a letter that was sent from George Eastman to his mother back in 1895. He was taking a tour of Holland at that point, a bicycle tour no less, and he saw the beautiful fields of tulips and daffodils that are wall to wall in Holland, decided to bring some home to the United States and foreseen putting them into his gardens in the estate he was planning on building.