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Group ranks Baltimore's parks 15th in nation
Baltimore's historic park system ranks 15th among the nation's 40 largest cities in a new rating released Wednesday, which credits the city's foresight in carving out public spaces over the past two centuries but faults its more recent leadership for...
Tags: Travel, William Donald Schaefer, Tampa, Finance, Patterson Park
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English cottage revival in Homeland
John and Leila Juracek's British friends tell them their 1929 Tudor Revival house in Baltimore's Homeland neighborhood is more like an English cottage than the country cottages in England.
The L-shaped exterior is of 18-inch-thick stone dressed in ivy...Tags: Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure, Building Material, Literature, Land Price
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August 17: Author - Justin Martin, Genius of Place
WGN NewsJustin Martin To purchase a copy of the book: Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted Most people have heard of Central Park and Prospect Park in New York, Stanford University in California, the Back Bay Fens and Franklin Park in Boston,...Tags: Human Interest, Washington, DC, New York, California, WGN
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Focus on Roland Park
Focus has been on Roland Park in recent weeks. It is easy for us Roland Parkers to take our verdant, well-planned community for granted. When interest from others comes, it increases our appreciation. First, Justin Martin, the author of Genius of Place:...Tags: Anne Tyler, Roland Park, NPR
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Best Park
1) Elizabeth Park Hartford has acres of history. We got your Mark Twain, your Harriet Beecher Stowe, your Wallace Stevens, your Samuel Colt, your Thomas Hooker. Major-league cultural shapers all. A somewhat lesser-known light is Frederick Law Olmsted,...
Tags: Wallace Stevens, Bushnell Park, Samuel Colt, West Hartford, Mark Twain
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Reading L.A.: The Olmsted Brothers plan and what might have been
Culture MonsterThe latest post in Christopher Hawthorne's Reading L.A. series is on "Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region"... -
An easy commute to quiet Clarendon Hills enclave
The " Harley-Davidson" coffee mug belongs to Ted. The "Su Do Ko" one is Bill's. The mug with the picture of the yellow Labrador is Noel's. Mudgeon Quinn can name the owners of the rest of the dozens of mugs on the wall at her family's Quinn's Coffee Shop,...Tags: Metra, Harley-Davidson Inc., Clubs and Associations, Golf, Bars and Clubs
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In old Florida, Weeki Wachee and other early tourist attractions still kicking
Lisa is cursing at the Tom Tom on the dashboard. I am cursing at my dysfunctional laptop and/or cellphone. It is raining and cold. Our windows are fogged. Probably with the steam from our ears.
This is what happens when 21st-century reporters go off in...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Arts and Culture, YouTube, Trips and Vacations, Architecture
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Enhancing The Landscape
The Hartford CourantA tiny art park in New London, a sustainable garden landscape amid wetlands, a breathtaking oceanfront house and a healing garden for cancer patients are among the award winners in this year's Connecticut Design Awards competition sponsored by the state's...Tags: Natural Resources, Arts and Culture, Architecture, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Wetlands
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John D. Olmsted dies at 73; naturalist preserved open space in Northern California
John D. Olmsted, a naturalist who led efforts to preserve Northern California nature areas, open space and trails, died of liver cancer March 8 at his home in Nevada City, Calif. He was 73.
Inspired by conservationist John Muir, Olmsted spent more than...Tags: Pacific Ocean, Liver Cancer, Documentary (genre), University of California, Berkeley, Nevada
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Biltmore Estate debuts Tiffany landscapes and art
Biltmore in nearby Asheville, N.C., will be the site of the July 1 opening of Tiffany at Biltmore, an exhibition of 45 stained glass lamps created by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) and The Tiffany Studios. The exhibition will fill The Biltmore Legacy...Tags: John la Farge, North Carolina, Richard Morris, Winter Garden, New York City
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Connecticut Trails Day Event Largest Ever
The Hartford CourantIt happens about this time every year. I visit the headquarters of Connecticut Forest & Park Association and pick up the brochure for the latest Connecticut Trails Day Celebration. And then go in my basement laboratory to develop a potion to split...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Natural Resources, Real Estate, Quinnipiac River, Wildlife
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