Background
Plimpton grew up in the small upstate New York farming town of Lima.
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Colleen Plimpton
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She graduated from Lima High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Fordham University and a Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University.
Career
Her parents were factory worker Sylvalan (Fred) (1922-2012) and schoolteacher Dorothy (1922-2007). Plimpton worked as a clinical social worker for many years in numerous locales and has resided for the past 20 years in Bethel, Connecticut, where she teaches, lectures, coaches and writes about gardening. Column(s):
On Gardening, Hearst Connecticut Media Group (since 2009)
Down the Garden Path, Hearst Media Services (since 2012)
Books:
Woodstock Revisited, Chapter 21, A Day in the Country 50 stories about the famous festival by individuals who were there.
Mentors in the Garden of Life, A garden memoir chronicling how we learn lessons about both life and horticulture while digging in the dirt with those we love.
→Finalist for the 2011 Connecticut Book of the Year (Memoir category)
→Finalist in the United States of America Book News “Best Books 2010” for the Home (Garden category)
→3rd Place in the Connecticut Press Club 2010 Awards for Nonfiction (Inspirational category)
Plimpton"s articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including Toastmaster, Connecticut Gardner, and Greenprints.
