And im the director of Community Partnerships for theMassachusetts Historical Society. Our program this evening is a seasonal, its a look at the tradition of Summer Reading we are joined by professor donna harringtonlueker on her new publication gavin kleespies, 19th century publishing the rise of Summer Reading. She is a passer in Newport Rhode island and she has an undergraduate degree from rhode island and phd. As a former magazine writer and editor, Research Interests include 19thcentury print culture, womens magazines on any period and radical or alternative press. Before we begin id like to extend a special welcome to anyone joining the Virtual Program for the first time. If youre not familiar with the Massachusetts Historical Society we are the first Historical Society in america and have been preserving publishing and sharing our history since 1791. We hold a collection of 14 million manuscript pages including the papers of the first three president s of the unitedstates. Or im
Support our nonprofit operations. Shop now or anytime at cspan shop. Org. Welcome everyone to the fifth installment of her conversation with olmsted series i presidency of the National Association for olmsted parks, the managing partner of the olmsted 220 tempe. We have at last arrived 2022, failure of olmsted, and we invite everyone from coast to coast to participate in a vast array of programs, coverages, tours, and more around the country. Tplease visit olmsted 200. Org o learn more. Today going to start a mr. Olmsteds neighborhood, the community of brookline, massachusetts, somewhere neighborhoods hold a unique place in history because they were held to an extraordinary confluence of talented individuals. And that is surely the case in the green home neighborhood in massachusetts to Frederick Law Olmsted and Rick Richardson and Charles Sprague sargent and others worked in close proximity shaping 19th and early 20th century architecture and Landscape Design in ways that continue to
Campaign. We have at last arrived 2022 the year of olmsted and we invite everyone from coast to coast to participate in a vast array of programs conferences tours and more around the country. Please visit olmsted 200. Org to learn more today we are going to start in mr. Olmsteads neighborhood the community of brookline, massachusetts. Some rare neighborhoods. Holy unique place in our history because they were home to an extraordinary confluence of talented individuals and that is surely the case in the green hill neighborhood of brookline, massachusetts there Frederick Law Olmsted henry. Richardson and Charles Sprague sergeant and others worked in close proximity shaping 19th and early 20th century architecture and Landscape Design in ways that continue to reverberate today. Thats why the National Association of olmsted parks and other organizations across the country fought hard to oppose proposed plans that surfaced in 2020 to destroy henry hopson richardsons home and properties asso
Name is dave jackson. I have a great privilege of serving as superintendent at oak hill cemetery. I am in my fifth year. My predecessor was there for 28. I do not think i will be there that long, but i will be, but not as superintendent. Thats another story. [laughter] mr. Jackson i wanted to talk about oak hill and its history and how it came to pass. I want to invite you to visit oak hill. The best way to experience oak hill is to come and visit. Our price is right, unless you make longer arrangements. It is really quite a place to see. Hope the late today, you will learn a little bit more about it and why it is there. And you will see even more on the fifth of november when we tour around the place of it. So, as mentioned, this is a 30thre of the main gate at and r street. Before i talk about that to my want to explain a bit about the Garden Movement of the cemetery and how it began. Late 1820s or certainly 1830s, there was a group in boston, cambridge started the first of the cemet
, 1, 2, is that better . My name is dave jackson. I have a great privilege of serving as superintendent at oak hill cemetery. I am in my fifth year. My predecessor was there for 28. I do not think i will be there that long, but i will be, but not as superintendent. Thats another story. [laughter] mr. Jackson i wanted to talk about oak hill and its history and how it came to pass. I want to invite you to visit oak hill. The best way to experience oak hill is to come and visit. Our price is right, unless you make longer arrangements. It is really quite a place to see. Hope the late today, you will learn a little bit more about it and why it is there. And you will see even more on the fifth of november when we tour around the place of it. So, as mentioned, this is a picture of the main gate at 30th and r street. Before i talk about that to my want to explain a bit about the Garden Movement of the cemetery and how it began. In about 1820, late 1820s or certainly 1830s, there was a group in