May 23, 2020
Horizontal and vertical.
Horizontal and vertical.
I would be happy to live in a stable by FLW.
Prairie masterpiece.
Cozy cottage.
Frederick Law Olmsted at 200
Frederick Law Olmsted at 200
Today marks a true cause for celebration — the 200th birthday of the famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903). It probably hasn’t escaped your attention that landscape architecture isn’t our typical beat. But some public figures transcend all! And parks as a broader topic are of great concern to me, as they should be to everybody. My dad worked as a groundskeeper as a young…
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BookExpo '17: The Illustrated Book About America's First Park Builder
BookExpo ’17: The Illustrated Book About America’s First Park Builder
While wandering BookExpo America last week, struck with the sheer number of illustrated books and comics-medium stories being told, one of the ones that stood out the most was published by Tundra Books and I was lucky enough to get the last sample copy. It’s called The Man Who Made Parks: The Story of Parkbuilder Frederick Law Olmstead. As the title suggests, this biography of an essential…
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