Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea

Date: 

Saturday, March 12, 2022, 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Online or at Weld Hill Research Building, 1300 Centre St., Boston

Just in time for the Arboretum's sesquicentennial and the bicentennial of the birth of pioneering landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, authors Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr will speak on their recent book, "Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea." They'll offer a new interpretation of how the American park—urban and national—came to figure so prominently in our cultural identity, and why this more complex and inclusive story deserves to be told.

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