welcome everyone to the fifth installment of our conversations with olmstead series. i m ddp try president and ceo of the national association for olmsted parks the managing partner of the olmstead 200 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. olmstead s 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. th
start in mr. olmstead s 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. that s 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 richardson s home and properties associated with john charles olmsted the steps under frederick law olmsted olmsted and partner in the olmsted firm. and as we start the new year, i have good news. we are grateful to the brookline preservation commission brookline preservation staff
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. olmstead s 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. that s 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 richardson s home and properties associated with john charles olmsted the steps under frederick law olmsted olmsted and partner in
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. that s 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 richardson s home and properties associated with john charles olmsted the steps under frederick law olmsted olmsted and partner in the olmsted firm. and as we start the new year, i have good news. we are grateful to the brookline preservation commission brookline preservation staff frederick law olmstead national historic site friends of fairstad, richardson and olmstead scholars and many others who advocated for the preservation of the richards
He was subject to savage criticism but i think he retained a certain amount of popularity with the ordinary confederate citizens. On the three trips that he took to the deep south during the course of the war in december 1862 and again in the fall of 1863 and the fall of 1864, he spoke at a dozen or more venues during those trips almost too large and enthusiastic crowds. So clearly there was some residue of support and even affection for davis among the general population. At the same time that governors, senators, newspaper editors were savagely criticizing him. That doesnt mean he was as popular as lee or Stonewall Jackson by any means but i think he was probably more popular than the popular image with the image we would have of his place in the southern affections would indicate. Host in the record there is some evidence of the behavior for the Common People of confederacy even drilling his common escape. He passed an old woman in a cabin and she held up an infant child and she sai