On this episode Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer visits with Marci Wayman and Joe Benevento about the new life they’re breathing into the iconic Peterson Rock Gardens & Museum located between Bend and Redmond.

They’re working to create a new community project at the garden, which is now operating under a nonprofit. Listen to learn more about this history of this special attraction.

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This article appears in Source Weekly October 12, 2023.

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LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Peterson Rock Gardens & Museum 🎧

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 19, 2023

<h1>LISTEN: Bend Don’t Break: Peterson Rock Gardens & Museum 🎧</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 19, 2023</p> <p><span class="fdnDropCap">O</span>n this episode Source Weekly publisher Aaron Switzer visits with Marci Wayman and Joe Benevento about the new life they’re breathing into the iconic Peterson Rock Gardens &amp; Museum located between Bend and Redmond.</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full alignright alignright"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_source_-_bend_don_t_break_101923.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/the_source_-_bend_don_t_break_101923.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-51841" /></a></figure> <p> They’re working to create a new community project at the garden, which is now operating under a nonprofit. Listen to learn more about this history of this special attraction.</p> <p><b>Listen now</b>:</p> <div class="wp-block-group newspack-embed-container align"> <div style="font-size: 10px;color: #cccccc;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396" title="Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-779383396/bend-dont-break-peterson-rock-gardens-museum" title="Bend Don&apos;t Break: Peterson Rock Gardens &amp; Museum" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc;text-decoration: none">Bend Don&#x27;t Break: Peterson Rock Gardens &amp; Museum</a></div> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-bend-dont-break-peterson-rock-gardens-and-museum-20014712/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=51837&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/listen-bend-dont-break-peterson-rock-gardens-and-museum-20014712/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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