Frederick Law Olmsted came to Newark in 1867 to select a site for Branch Brook Park, America’s first county park. This presentation will show how parks throughout New Jersey, including the Union County park system and Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, still attest to Olmsted’s legacy and philosophy of landscape design.

Kathleen Galop serves as Principal of Preservation Possibilities, an historic preservation consulting firm in Summit. She has extensive experience and a national reputation in the administration of historic preservation projects. This program in offered through the Horizon Speakers Bureau of the New jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Tags: history, landscape design, New Jersey, public spaces