Category: Personal Reflections
Personal Reflections
The “Frederick Law Olmsted on Staten Island Discovery Map”
The Friends of Olmsted-Beil House (FOBH) debuts a map project illustrating many of Olmsted's Staten Island locations.
Personal Reflections
Eagle Scout honors Olmsted with service project
Lora Panepinto of Scouts BSA Troop 222 reflects on completing her BSA Eagle Scout Service Project at Olmsted-Beil House Park.
Personal Reflections
Girl Scout Daisy Troop 60140 Celebrates Olmsted 200
Daisy Troop 60140 celebrated Olmsted 200 by learning about FLO. Plus, Girl Scouts of Western New York announces "Celebrating Olmsted: Parks for all People" patch!
Personal Reflections
Fortuitous Connections to Frederick Law Olmsted
One man’s effort to relocate a colonial era home to Savannah, GA led his family to uncover connections to Frederick Law Olmsted.
Personal Reflections
Living with Contradictions: An Appeal for Olmstedian Thinking in Today’s World
Chattanooga transplant and urban parks advocate Scott Martin explores the relevance of Olmsted’s ideas, landscape innovations, and design instincts through a 21st Centuray lens.
Olmsted & Friends Interviews
Olmsted and Friends: Meet Diana Cecil Pickering
Meet Dini Cecil Pickering, a member of our Olmsted 200 Honorary Committee!
Personal Reflections
Meeting Beauty
Jane Alexander recalls living at 99 Warren Street, the home of the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Fairsted is now a National Historic Site.
Personal Reflections
Living with Olmsted
Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks recounts the joys of living with Tony Horwitz and Frederick Law Olmsted.
Personal Reflections
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.
Personal Reflections
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.
Research & Writings
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.
Personal Reflections
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.
Personal Reflections
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.
Olmsted & Friends Interviews
Olmsted and Friends: Meet Adrian Benepe
Meet Adrian Benepe, a member of our Olmsted 200 Honorary Committee!
Olmsted & Friends Interviews
Olmsted and Friends: Meet Austin Allen
Meet Austin Allen, a member of our Olmsted 200 Honorary Committee!