14 April 2016
It must have been at least 30 years ago I first visited Bok Tower and Gardens, probably during a trip to Mississippi to see my parents. I remember you could drive right to the gardens and walk a short distance to the tower. The gardens were nice but not terribly extensive. In 30 years, things have changed!
First, part of the tower has been renovated and it certainly looks better on the outside these days. I don’t remember being as impressed with it the first time. Second, the gardens are far more extensive and well maintained. They have provided numerous trails through the gardens and have added an old home to their control. There are at least three new buildings on the site. One is the welcome center, another is the garden shop and another is the cafe. They were busily installing a new children’s garden on this visit.
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On my first visit, I only heard the hour struck. Fortuitously, this visit I heard the concert on the carillon at 3 pm by Geert D’hollander, the tower’s fourth full time carillonneur. The tower has 60 bronze bells with the smallest weighing in at 16 lbs. and the largest over 11 tons. Overall the tower supports over 63 tons of bronze.
You can go into the Founder’s room on the ground floor (available four times a year) if you are a sustainer or above and Tower Club members can access the carillonneur’s studio and keyboard room and bell room. I’m none of those so I enjoyed the outside view.
The tower contains the Founder’s room, above it the Chao Research Center (archive), above that the maintenance workshop, above that the Anton Brees Carillon Library, above that the Carillonneur’s studio, above that the keyboard room and at the very top, the bells.
