Just a short walk from Mainstreet in the Village of Manchester, off River Bend Drive, is the entrance to the westside of the property. Deceptively presented as an empty yard in a neighborhood between ... Read More »
Journal
I’m Wayne Oliver, and I’d like to welcome you to the “Practical Prairie”, a journal I’m writing to document the creation of River Bend Gardens.
Why Manchester?
Fate and following my career brought me to southwest Washtenaw County in September 1988. I remember driving around Manchester and even in the early fall it seemed so green compared to Oklahoma. I ... Read More »
Brief Bio.
I am the second son of Lula Bell Copeland, who was born in 1938 the youngest of seven children to a truck farmer working forty acres in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. She taught me what's ... Read More »