October 6th: Unconscious Influence: Olmsted’s Hartford
Don Poland, Goman + York Advisory Services
On Wednesday, October 6th, Dr. Don Poland will join us to discuss the social-cultural milieu that emerged in 19th-century Hartford and trace the influence of Hartford’s social reforms over the course of Frederick Law Olmsted’s career. Olmsted, a Hartford native and one of the most influential Americans in the 19th-century, is well known for his work as a journalist and travel writer and as the Father of American Landscape Architecture. However, little is known of his youthful years in Connecticut. To better understand Olmsted and his influential career, Dr. Poland explores Olmsted’s formative years in Hartford through the lens of social reforms aimed at creating a civil American society. By establishing Olmsted as part of a close-knit Hartford community of social reformers—including the Beecher family, Horace Bushnell, Daniel Wadsworth, and Benjamin Silliman—Dr. Poland reveals the profound Unconscious Influence that the Hartford community had on Olmsted.
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