Tuesday January 3, 1 - 2 pm: Genius of Place

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Midday 01.03.2012 2nd HOUR Frederick Law Olmsted.mp3

If you’ve enjoyed an outing in New York’s Central Park, thrilled to the majesty of Yellowstone, or walked the stunning campus of Stanford University, you’ve had a glimpse into the soul of Frederick Law Olmsted. He was America’s foremost landscape architect and a man who left his imprint on more than a hundred parks and urban spaces, from coast to coast, and including Maryland. But our guest this hour, biographer Justin Martin, says Frederick Law Olmsted was also a reformer and activist –- a journalist who in the 1850s helped convince the North that slavery was unconscionable, and who then ran a forerunner of the American Red Cross during the Civil War. One of our most important, yet least known Americans -- Frederick Law Olmsted. We'll also hear about the work of one of his sons, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., in Baltimore during the 20th Century. Justin Martin is the author of Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted — Abolitionist, Conservationist, and Designer of Central Park.