During the years leading up to Glastonbury's tercentenary in 1993 individuals, civic groups, and local contractors joined forces with the Town to bring new life to a part of Main street which had for decades been a sea of pavement.

Before

After

The Town of Glastonbury paid a masonry contractor to construct the stone wall. The Town also provided all of the plant materials. Volunteers, both individual and corporate, performed the initial demolition and all construction and planting subsequent to the installation of the stone wall. The participants are named and acknowledged on a plaque at the South end of the garden.

Paul Love, a native of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, adopted Glastonbury in his retirement, and volunteered to maintain gardens and plantings throughout the town: at South Congregational Church, the Gideon Welles House, at the Welles-Turner Memorial Library, and around the fountain in the Center Green. He also maintained the Town's voting machines as a volunteer. Paul died shortly before the Town's tercentenary. At the urging of members of the community, the Town Council named the garden after Paul Love.

The space that is now known around town simply as the Love Garden is a stellar example of what Glastonbury people and organizations can accomplish to improve and beautify the town.