Summary
IN 1852, WHEN A FLEDGLING NEWSPAPER, the New York Daily Times, went looking for a writer to travel the South and write regular dispatches, its editor was introduced to one of the most unlikely candidates.
He was Frederick Law Olmsted, the man who would become the father of landscape architecture in America but then was searching for an identity. He'd tried farming and grew bored with it. But then, after a walking tour of England, he wrote a book about his travels and proved to be an engaging writer.See the full content of this document
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1850s Reports On South Show No Love for Norfolk
Olmsted was hired on the spot. And what followed was more than a year's worth of in-depth and objective weekly reports throughout the Southern states, including some from our region. He had an ear for dialogue, an eye fo...
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