Saturday, July 09, 2011

Frederick Law Olmsted...

... made lots of bits of America 'pretty'. An interesting man... here. Central Park was one of his achievements... more here. Not surprising he got sumac poisoning... here. He also partnered to found The Nation, Americas longest running weekly magazine...

1 comment:

mylifeinspain said...

When you're packing up the books, you should find a v. interesting biography of him. Highly recommend.