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SUMMARY:OHA Book Club - A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:The OHA Book Club will discuss A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski. In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject\, Witold Rybczynski\, the bestselling author of Home and City Life\, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. \nWe know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes—among them\, New York’s Central Park\, California’s Stanford University campus\, and Boston’s Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted’s contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822\, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He managed California’s largest gold mine and\, during the Civil War\, served as the executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission\, the precursor of the Red Cross. \nRybczynski’s passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsted’s immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance\, the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure. \nAmazon.com Review\nFrederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer\, well known for his plans for New York’s Central Park and Prospect Park\, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington\, D.C.\, and the campus of Stanford University\, among other noteworthy sites.But\, writes urban studies professor and accomplished author Witold Rybczynski\, Olmsted was an American original\, a 19th-century success story who packed many careers and wide learning and travel into a long life. He spent time in China and Europe\, managed a California gold mine\, edited The Nation\, commanded a medical unit in the Civil War\, and crisscrossed the United States many times over\, writing long reports and articles all the while. (One series of reports urged\, for instance\, that the then-remote Yosemite region of California be made a national park.) Olmsted\, Rybczynski suggests\, changed the face of America: he had a vision of the American landscape as a reflection of the national character\, with its broad vistas and open skies\, and he was concerned to make America’s urban spaces livable\, bringing “trees and greenery into the congested grid of streets.” At Olmsted’s urging\, many American and Canadian cities adopted his system of parks\, broad avenues\, and greenways\, which encouraged the appreciation and preservation of nature; his influence is felt today in the so-called urban ecology movement\, and in dozens of public spaces across the continent. \nRybczynski’s fine and illuminating biography of Olmsted shows him to have been a man of many parts\, an important historical figure whose legacy remains strong nearly a century after his death. –Gregory McNamee –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/clearing-distance-frederick-law-olmsted-america-19th-century/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
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SUMMARY:Book Club: "The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict" by Austin Reed
DESCRIPTION:Join OHA’s book club on June 11th to discuss “The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict” by Austin Reed\, with forward by David W. Blight and Robert B. Stepto. This book is described as “The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer—recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars—sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.” Austin Reed was a prisoner at Auburn State Prison in the mid-19th century. \nHow was this memoir discovered? \nAccording to NPR\, “At an estate sale in Rochester\, N.Y.\, in 2009\, a rare book seller came upon a curious literary artifact. As it turned out\, it was a memoir written in the 1850s by Austin Reed\, a black man who spent most of his life in prison…When Reed’s memoir found its way to Yale University\, librarians and scholars were eager to get a look at it. Robert Stepto\, a professor of African-American studies\, has spent a lifetime studying slave narratives.”
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/austin-reed-haunted-convict/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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SUMMARY:Book Club: "The Invention of Wings: A Novel" by Sue Monk Kidd
DESCRIPTION:Join OHA’s book club on May 7th to discuss “The Invention of Wings: A Novel” by Sue Monk Kidd. According to NPR‘s Bobbi Dumas\, “the book is the fictionalized history of the Grimké sisters\, Sarah and Angelina (Nina)\, who were at the forefront of the abolitionist and women’s rights movements\, wound around the intriguing narrative of a young slave\, Hetty\, who was given to Sarah as an 11th birthday present. Sarah despises slavery\, even at that early age\, and out of principle attempts to reject the gift…The novel is a textured masterpiece\, quietly yet powerfully poking our consciences and our consciousness. What does it mean to be a sister\, a friend\, a woman\, an outcast\, a slave? How do we use our talents to better ourselves and our world? How do we give voice to our power\, or learn to empower our voice?”
URL:https://www.cnyhistory.org/calendar/sue-monk-kidd-invention-of-wings/
LOCATION:Onondaga Historical Association\, 321 Montgomery Street\, Syracuse\, 13202
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