Library of American Landscape History
If you have room in your inbox for a landscaping history e-newsletter, I can recommend one from the Library of American Landscape History. Articles in the Dec. 2011 issue include: - new publications Fletcher Steele’s "Design in the Little Garden" Bob Grese’s "The Native Landscape Reader" Christopher Vernon’s "Graceland: A Design History" Each of these volumes explores a different aspect of landscape studies—from garden design to environmental design to consideration of the cemetery as a reflection of American cultural history. - LALH and Hott Productions of Florentine Films (the Ken Burns company) wrapped production on two inaugural documentary films in our highly anticipated North America by Design series. - Will Garden of Revelations Meet Watery Apocalypse? When a band of German religious dissenters arrived in east central Ohio in 1817, they chose a fertile plain in a bend of the Tuscarawas River on which to build a communal society. They ...