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“Coming Together" with Frederick Law Olmsted
Staff from the Olmsted National Historic Site will discuss Olmsted's design goals and how he achieved them in his public works.
When and where
Date and time
Thursday, June 15 · 7 - 9pm EDT
Location
Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street Medford, MA 02155
About this event
- 2 hours
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“Coming Together" with Frederick Law Olmsted
Speaker Isabel Schulman, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 7:00 p.m., Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library
As the nation's first landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks with purpose- and none more important than for people to be their best selves. To better connect with their health, their spirit, with nature and with each other. Olmsted wrote how time spent in a public park could animate local citizens “with a common purpose, not at all intellectual, competitive with none, disposing to jealousy and spiritual or intellectual pride toward none, each individual adding by his mere presence to the pleasure of all others, all helping to the greater happiness of each," that we "must come together, and be seen coming together." Join staff from Olmsted National Historic Site to discuss Olmsted's lofty goals and how he aimed to achieve them in his public works. We will also look at how some key design ideals and features can be seen in the work of his sons and their predecessors in community planning, public buildings, and private estates.