The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has launched of the first ever National Museum Survey dedicated to understanding the scope and scale of museums’ presence and reach within the United States. This survey is expected to help inform the museum field, policymakers, the public, and the media about the social, cultural, educational, and economic role that the nation’s museums play in American society. [Read more…] about First Ever National Museum Survey Launched
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Japanese Barberry: Once Imported For Gardens, Now Invasive
Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) is a deciduous shrub that can grow eight feet tall. It has grooved stems with single or paired thorns in the nodes. Its leaves are ½“ to 1 ½” in length and grow in irregular clusters. In April and May, Japanese barberry produces umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers on the undersides of its branches. The red, oblong fruit are produced in September. [Read more…] about Japanese Barberry: Once Imported For Gardens, Now Invasive
Pine Hollow Arboretum Hopes For National Register Historic District
The Pine Hollow Arboretum is the recipient of a 2024 Preserve New York Grant from the Preservation League of NYS in the amount of $5,168. Dr. John W. Abbuhl began planting trees around his home in 1966. His affinity for the land, interest in horticulture, and love of trees combined to inspire the creation of Pine Hollow Arboretum. [Read more…] about Pine Hollow Arboretum Hopes For National Register Historic District
Planting Fields: An Olmstedian Vision Blooms
Planting Fields Arboretum is a 409-acre historic site in Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island. Located in an area often called the Gold Coast, the site was among hundreds of grand estates built in the late 1800s and early 1900s that reflected the emerging wealth sparked by the Industrial Revolution. While the fate of most of these estates was grim, Planting Fields survived with its acreage and historic structures intact. [Read more…] about Planting Fields: An Olmstedian Vision Blooms
Tracing the Roots of Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Bayard Cutting Arboretum is a 691-acre New York state park situated along the Connetquot River on the south shore of Long Island in the town of Islip.
The former Westbrook estate of Mr. William Bayard Cutting (1850-1912), a hobby botanist and conifer enthusiast, holds a rich history of landscape design and botanical specimens dating back to the nineteenth century. [Read more…] about Tracing the Roots of Bayard Cutting Arboretum
Digging Deeper: Habitat Gardens in the Catskills
The Mountain Top Arboretum in Greene County, NY, will present “Digging Deeper: Habitat Gardens in the Catskills,” an outdoor event at the Arboretum on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 4 pm. [Read more…] about Digging Deeper: Habitat Gardens in the Catskills
Work Begins On Bayard Cutting Arboretum Visitors Center
A $9.3 million construction project has begun on a new Visitor Center, improved parking, and enhanced exhibits at Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park in Suffolk County on Long Island. [Read more…] about Work Begins On Bayard Cutting Arboretum Visitors Center
Nationally Significant Olmsted Landscapes Threatened
The Cultural Landscape Foundation today released Landslide 2022, an annual thematic report and exhibition about threatened and at-risk landscapes, focusing on twelve sites designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., and his successor firms, a founder of the discipline of landscape architecture best known as the co-designer of Central Park in New York City.
This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Olmsted Sr. (1822-1903). The sites feature the involvement of one or more of all three Olmsteds: Olmsted Sr., his son Olmsted Jr. (1870-1957), and stepson John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920). [Read more…] about Nationally Significant Olmsted Landscapes Threatened
A New History Of Trees, Woods and Forests
Forests – and the trees within them – have always been a central resource for the development of technology, culture, and the expansion of humans as a species.
Examining and challenging our historical and modern attitudes toward wooded environments from a European perspective, Charles Watkins’ Trees, Woods and Forest: A Social and Cultural History (Reaktion Books, 2014) explores how our understanding of forests has transformed in recent years and how it fits in our continuing anxiety about our impact on the natural world. [Read more…] about A New History Of Trees, Woods and Forests