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Living with Olmsted
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks recounts the joys of living with Tony Horwitz and Frederick Law Olmsted.
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Backing Into Olmsted
Retired Chicago-based attorney John Notz recounts how he “backed his way” into learning about the work of the Olmsted Firm in Chicago and Milwaukee.
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Making Memories in Memorial Park
Acclaimed photographer Mark Krancer describes how the magic of Olmsted Brothers’ Memorial Park in Jacksonville, Florida, has engaged his life and inspired his art.
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Landscape of a Marriage – How one Olmsted explored her family’s history
Gail Ward Olmsted explains how her family heritage helped inspire a biographical novel on Olmsted and his wife Mary Perkins.
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In Memoriam— Alexander Garvin
Olmsted 200 lauds the life and career of urbanist Alexander Garvin (1941-2021) and mourns his loss.
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Filming a Trail and Finding a Father: A Wild Independence in the Olmsted Family
Olmsted distant cousin and filmmaker Alden Olmsted recounts in a new film how an abandoned mining ditch in California's Gold Country was transformed into the first wheelchair nature trail in the United States by his late father and naturalist John Olmsted. The film debuts this spring at two film festivals.
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At Home with Olmsted
Author and long-time Riverside resident Cathy Jean Maloney riffs on the joys and challenges of living in an Olmsted landscape.
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Olmsted and Friends: Meet Adrian Benepe
Meet Adrian Benepe, a member of our Olmsted 200 Honorary Committee!
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Olmsted and Friends: Meet Austin Allen
Meet Austin Allen, a member of our Olmsted 200 Honorary Committee!
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