Martha Jean Memorial Garden
"With the single-mindedness of Ahab and the devotion of a wounded heart, Phil Schmidt is building a monument for his wife.
“If I didn’t have this to do, I don’t know what I would do,” Schmidt said.
The Martha Jean Memorial Garden, as it reads on the wrought iron work over the driveway, is a private garden in South Otto, the Macon County hamlet just north of the Georgia line.
Begun the week after his wife Martha Jean died from cancer that began in her lungs and spread to her bones and brain, Phil Schmidt spends 10 to 12 hours a day tending a garden that approximates the beauty of his lost bride."
-SmokyMountainNews.com
