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BOOKS: SIX NEW BOOKS WERE RELEASED, ALL OF THEM PUBLISHED INDEPENDENLY BY LALH. THE BOOKS ARE AS FOLLOWS: Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea, Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma (paperback),Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South (paperback),Rescue and Revival: New York Botanical Garden (1989 2018), Writing the City, Marjorie Cautley, Landscape Architect for the Motor Age.
MANUSCRIPT DEVELOPMENT: Editorial work continued on several manuscripts, including Bostons Franklin Park (forthcoming 2023); Nature, Design, and Health (forthcoming 2023); Improving the Village: Our Whole Country a Park; Calvert Vaux; Innocenti & Webel.. The new Olmsted Fund was established with a gift of $250,000 from an anonymous Boston-based charity.
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH: VIEW 2022 WAS PUBLISHED AND MAILED TO APPROXIMATELY 2,000 RECIPIENTS. Work with Forster Films continued on Landscapes of Exclusion, based on the 2016 book of the same title. Plans were made for three public film screenings and panel discussions in 2023: Reynolda Museum, Winston-Salem; National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Atlanta History Center. Robin Karson, Hon. ASLA, was awarded the Sarah Francis Chapman Medal for outstanding literary achievement from the Garden Club of America. On October 20, LALH celebrated its thirtieth anniversary at the Century Association in New York City. Awards were given to 2022 Preservation Hero Patricia ODonnell and the 2020 Preservation Hero, Sarah Cedar Miller, the latter having been delayed by the pandemic.