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    Parks for the People: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
    Parks for the People: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
    Parks for the People: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
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    Parks for the People: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

    By Julie Dunlap

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    Growing up on a Connecticut farm in the 1800s, Frederick Olmsted loved roaming the outdoors. A contest to design the nation’s first city park opened new doors for Olmsted when his winning design became New York’s Central Park, just one of Olmsted's ideas that changed our nation's cities. Award-winning author Julie Dunlap brings Olmsted to life in this wonderful biography.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFulcrum Publishing
    Release dateSep 11, 2017
    ISBN9781938486012
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      Book preview

      Parks for the People - Julie Dunlap

      To my husband, Michael—For all our adventures in parks, great and small.

      Many thanks to Alan Banks, Michele Clark, Liza Stearns, and other staff of the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, to Jeanie Knox of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, and to the Central Park Conservancy for all they do for parks and people.

      Text © 1994, 2011 by Julie Dunlap

      Photograph courtesy of Brother Yusuf Burgess: vii. Photographs courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: 5 (LC-USZ62-19200), 8 (LC-DIG-pga-01528), 21 (LC-DIG-nclc-04208), 47 (LC-USZ62-66616), 51 (LC-DIG-stereo-1s01358), 54 (LC-DIG-stereo-1s00444), 63 (LC-D4-9286), 77 (LC-USZ62-87037), 80, 84 (LC-USZ62-94559), 94 (LC-USZ62-971). Photographs and maps courtesy of the National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site: 12, 31, 34, 38–39, 46, 74–75, 82, 83, 92, 100. Photographs courtesy of the New York Public Library, www.nypl.org: 16 (Eno Collection, Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, NYPL, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations), 40 (Picture Collection, NYPL, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations), 43 (Milstein Division of US History, Local History & Genealogy, NYPL, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). Postcard courtesy of Friends of Birkenhead Park: 23. Photo scan courtesy of University of Maryland library: 25. Photograph courtesy of University Archives and Special Collections, American University Library: 52. Photograph used with permission of the Society of California Pioneers: 56 (Carlton E. Watkins, The Colfax Party; Stereocard). Photographs courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection: 59 (LC-D4-9286), 64 (LC-D4-39952), 65 (LC-D4-70287), 71 (LC-USZC4-6887), 95 (LC-D4-36851). Photographs used with permission from The Biltmore Company, Asheville, NC: 78, 86. Photograph courtesy of Dorchester County Historical Society: 79. Photograph courtesy of Artco2/Wikimedia Commons: 90.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system—except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review—without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Dunlap, Julie.

      Parks for the people : the life of Frederick Law Olmsted / Julie

      Dunlap. -- [New ed.].

      p. cm. -- (Conservation adventurers)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-55591-470-7 (pbk.)

      1. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Juvenile literature. 2.

      Landscape architects--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature. 3.

      Parks--United States--History--Juvenile literature. I. Olmsted,

      Frederick Law, 1822-1903. II. Title. III. Title: Life of Frederick Law

      Olmsted.

      SB470.O5D86 2011

      712.092--dc23

      [B]

      2011019998

      Printed in Canada

      0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Design by Jack Lenzo

      Fulcrum Publishing

      4690 Table Mountain Dr., Ste. 100

      Golden, CO 80403

      800-992-2908 • 303-277-1623

      www.fulcrumbooks.com

      Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      One: Free to Roam

      Two: Restless Spirit

      Three: Green Island in the City

      Four: Too Wonderful to Be Believed

      Five: Park Keeping

      Six: Painting with Lakes and Trees

      Afterword

      US Conservation Time Line

      Glossary

      Places to Visit

      Take It Outside

      To Learn More

      Major Sources

      Index

      Foreword

      I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1950s and 1960s. As the middle child of seven, I had a tough time finding a sense of place in my family or in our neighborhood, the Marcy Projects. One of my brothers, called Bird, was warlord of a notorious gang, the Marcy Chaplains. For most of my early childhood, I was Bird’s brother and safe to walk the troubled streets.

      My mother made sure I often escaped the crowded housing projects by visiting Prospect Park. By nine years old, I could get there alone by bus or subway. I would wander the park, identifying trees, catching bumblebees in jelly jars, and filling paper cups with tadpoles to raise at home.

      In the park was my favorite tree. I’d climb it and get lost in the canopy, unseen by the rest of world. This was my place to daydream, relax, or travel anywhere I’d read about in my Weekly Reader. It’s the place I can, even now, return to at any moment when I am stressed or need to meditate and rest. I had never heard of the park’s famous designer, Frederick Law Olmsted. What was important to me were the cobblestone trails, the ice cream man

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