WHERE: North Carolina Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. avl.mx/92b WHEN: Tuesday, April 26, 3:30 p.m. (book signing); Thursday, April 28, 6:30 p.m., in conversation via Zoom with Drake ...

Unlike Richardson, Olmsted—co-creator, with partner Calvert Vaux, of Manhattan’s Central Park and designer of the U.S. Capitol grounds—needs no introduction.

Peer into the mind of the nation’s most prolific park maker with this book, which showcases more than 70 public spaces designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape ...

<p>Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford in 1822. When he was 3 his mother died, and there was then a stepmother and other children while he was sent away to a series of rather odd schools ...

Some 160 years after Olmsted set out on the old B&O Railroad, Horwitz tells us he stepped aboard Amtrak: "No bookings. No itinerary. Just a ramble across America with long-dead Fred as my guide ...

In 1850, Frederick, his brother John and a friend talked father Olmsted into underwriting a “walking tour” of England – an experience that changed his life.

This time, though, Horwitz is not traveling alone: His ghostly companion is Frederick Law Olmsted, the great 19th century landscape architect, best known for designing New York's Central Park.