Amidst All This Beauty

2024

11min

"Amidst All This Beauty" follows Ronald Lee Fleming, a noted urban planner and bon vivant, on a tour of his Newport, Rhode Island estate. In his garden, he has built shrines to the life he has lived and the many ways he has nearly died. He has begun sharing his hopes for the gardens when he is no longer there to tend them, ensuring the garden's future in Newport. Ronald has used the garden as a form of therapy, designing and building them to help heal the emotional wounds he sustained serving in the Vietnam War.