A Visual Presentation, Lecture, and Book Signing

with Witold Rybczynski

A CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED

AND AMERICA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Ellarslie Mansion, City Museum of Trenton

In the Olmsted Designed Cadwalader Park

Parkside and Bellevue Avenues, Trenton, NJ

Friday October 19, 2007 at 7 PM

Light Refreshments Served

Witold Rybczynski, nationally renowned architect, historian, and critic has written about the world of American architecture for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and Slate.com. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Home, which has been translated into ten languages. A Clearing in the Distance, a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, received the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. His current best seller, The Last Harvest, discusses how our communities will grow and change over time.

The recipient of the Christopher Award in 2000, and the Vincent Scully Prize in 2007, Witold Rybczynski and his wife live in Philadelphia. He is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor in Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania.

Witold Rybczynski Examines Olmsted's Life and Times

Witold Rybczynski illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.

Known today through the legacy of his stunning landscapes; New York's Central Park, Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens, and Cadwalader Park, Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents.

Rybczynski'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. (Scribner)

CADWALADER PARK ALLIANCE

Preserving a National Treasure in the City Of Trenton

The Cadwalader Park Alliance is a non-profit organization that works in conjunction with the City of Trenton to insure the future of Cadwalader Park. The organization raises funds through grant programs, corporate donations and private individuals in order to support park projects. The Alliance invests in park restoration, maintenance, and events.