Timeless Season in the Sun at the Piedmont Health Care Center, in partnership with CFNEA

Two sundials, for the endless movement of time.

Red-brick building behind a bench, fountain and flower beds at Piedmont Health Care Center

WHERE

Piedmont, AL

PARTNER INSTITUTION

The Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama

Visit

Where it is

139 Ingram Drive, Piedmont, AL

What happens here

Visitors pass through the Portal and journey along a path of plants and benches to the sundials. People of all ages come here for peace and reflection, and the feelings the park stirs — rest, encouragement, reflection — mirror the centre's mission of long-term care for the elderly.

Find this Sacred Place

Timeless Season in the Sun at the Piedmont Health Care Center, in partnership with CFNEA

HOW IT CAME TO BE

A box on the bucket list of his heart.

The Need

The Piedmont Health Care Center provides long-term care to the elderly. Its residents, and the people who visit them, needed somewhere outdoors that answered that stage of life rather than ignored it.

The Vision

Benjamin Ingram, a dentist by profession but a Firesoul at heart, checked off a box on what the source calls the bucket list of his heart by creating the park. He sees it as a Sacred Place for all "sojourners" to experience the healing nature can bring to a life.

The Transformation

A shaded structure named the Portal now leads visitors into the rest of the park, an apt name for what it does. From there a path of plants and benches carries them to two large sundials, one horizontal and one analemmatic — an elliptical design — so that visitors experience the endless movement of time and seasons.

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WHO TENDS IT