# Frederick Law Olmsted
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frederick law olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux.
How Documentary Films Bring American History to Life | Laurence Cotton
How Documentary Films Bring American History to Life | Laurence Cotton
Welcome to the premiere episode of Elite Spotlight, where host Michael Masci shines a light on extraordinary people and their remarkable stories.
Today’s guest is Laurence Cotton, public historian, documentary filmmaker, and Ame…
The 1893 World's Fair: The White City, Tesla vs. Edison, and the First Ferris Wheel | History Sleep Story w. Rain Sounds
Drift off tonight beneath the gaslit domes of the White City. This is the full story of the 1893 World's Fair, the Chicago exposition that rose out of a swamp to become the most spectacular event of the nineteenth century, then vanished almost overnight.
Settle in under rain sounds and gentle narra…
Ep. 115: Landscape Architecture
Over the course of the 19th century, the field of landscape architecture emerged as the practice of gardening became increasingly professionalized. The first person to call themselves a “landscape architect” and popularize the term in the United States remains the only landscape architect that most…
8 28 26 The River of Wack
🎙️ DaWack in da Morning
“The River of Wack”
📅 Friday, August 28, 2026
It’s Friday! We survived another week, productivity officially checked out sometime Wednesday, and Zack Da Wack is back to send you into the weekend with another trip down The River of Wack!
🎉 Holiday Roundup
We celebrate some …
Twenty-Seven Million People Saw It. Nine Months Later It Was Gone
In 1893, Chicago drained a swamp on Lake Michigan and built a city out of plaster and light. They called it the White City. About twenty-seven million visits were made to it — in a country of sixty-five million people.
It gave us the Ferris wheel. It settled the argument over how electricity would …
Portland hosts annual Olmsted Conference
Frederick Law Olmsted, best known for designing Central Park in New York City and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, is regarded as the pioneer of modern landscape architecture. The Olmsted firm went on to design over 6,000 landscapes in North America under general guiding principles of creating accessible…
40-Seat Movie Theater in Old Redmond? Red Barn Fall Fest & Best Pumpkin Patch in Redmond?
🎃 Gary Cooper's Uncle's Dairy Farm Has a Pumpkin Patch This Weekend
Gary Cooper's uncle started a dairy farm in Redmond in 1907, and this weekend you can take the kids there. The Red Barn Farm's 8th annual Fall Festival runs this weekend on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 5703 208th A…
Episode 174 10/08/26 Self-Knowledge Through Writing Prompts
If you don't ask yourselves the question, how can you ever know the answer? I was inspired by a book by Tony Horwitz called "Spying on the South" where he followed in the footsteps of Frederick Law Olmsted -- the designer of New York's Central Park -- and toured the South. He included snippets of O…
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