There were daffy doings last week in an old colonial garden in Virginia. The garden belonged to Hampton Manor, 486-acre estate near Bowling Green, Va. The estate, with a brick mansion, built in 1838 by Virginia Legislator Daniel de Jarnette from plans by his friend Thomas Jefferson, is now owned by Mrs. Caresse Crosby, late of literary Paris. Her house guests were Arch-Surrealist Salvador Dali & wife. Hence the dilly-Dali-ing.
Surrealist Dali suggested to his hostess that it would be fun to "enchant" Hampton Manor into a surrealist paradise. Mrs. Crosby was enchanted...
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