The crying ceases, and Ashley believes she has solved the mystery. Believing Anna Maria is crying from loneliness, she slips outside and takes the doll into the house, hiding her in a dresser. That night Ashley hears crying in the garden once more. Cooper approach and quickly hide the doll, but Ms. While pulling weeds, Kristi uncovers a buried box containing an antique doll named Anna Maria, along with a handwritten apology from a girl named 'Carrie' addressed to 'Louisa.' As the girls wonder who Carrie and Louisa might be, the white cat appears. Later that night, Ashley also hears crying in the garden.Īshley convinces Kristi to help her clean up the garden. Kristi tells her the neighborhood kids believe the garden is haunted by a ghostly cat, and that they hear mysterious crying coming from the hedges. Cooper's warnings to stay out of the house's overgrown and neglected garden, Ashley goes exploring and meets a younger neighbor, Kristi. Still angry over the recent death of her father, ten-year-old Ashley moves with her widowed mother into the upper floor of a boarding house owned by mean-spirited Ms.

We’re rebels, each in our own little ways, and each with a burning desire to create provocative, thoughtful, and unexpected exhibits.The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story is a children's novel by Mary Downing Hahn. We’re native and former Angelenos, museum professionals and dreamers whose combined experience in education, entertainment, art and retail has led us to a common passion: toys. Visit the LATDA Store (cleverly called ) and live the LATDA Lifestyle! Mainly, we possess the desire to learn from - and have fun with - the stuff that has entranced kids (and adults) since forever. We like to create products for those who make toys a part of their daily lives. In between those exhibitions, we kept our fingers on the pulse of what’s happening in the toy world, as you can see when you follow us on Facebook and Instagram. However, in the past we have partnered with like-minded organizations to present innovative exhibitions that made adults feel like kids again, and made kids happy to be alive. And interpretations are, well, open to re-interpretation, and that’s where the exploration, examination, and transformative experience comes in. Because museums exist to interpret objects, not just put them on display without prodding you to think about them.

Welcome to the Los Angeles Toy, Doll and Amusements Museum! (Please, call us LA-T-DA.) Like any good museum, we started with a standard Mission Statement: To explore, examine and interpret objects of play and amusement and their influence in various times and cultures. And as mission statements go, it is pretty dry-but it is clear.

Doll in the garden