BUFFALO OLMSTED PARK SYSTEM FEATURED IN UPCOMING ISSUE OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
BUFFALO OLMSTED PARK SYSTEM
FEATURED IN UPCOMING ISSUE OF
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
Two photographs featuring the Buffalo Olmsted Park System appear in the March 2005 issue of National Geographic magazine.
In a 10-page article entitled Frederick Law Olmsted’s Passion for Parks, a wintertime photograph of the stately Oak Tree which sits in the grand meadow of Delaware Park; and an overhead shot of Gates Circle looking down on rows of trees along beautiful Chapin Parkway are featured among photos of Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City, Yosemite National Park in California and Mount Royal Park in Montreal.
“Buffalo’s Olmsted Parks stand among the most scenic in the world and this article about the Olmsted legacy is a testament to that,” said Deborah Ann Trimble, executive director of the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy. “Frederick Law Olmsted is considered America’s greatest landscape architect and Buffalo is so fortunate to have these important, interesting and historic cultural attractions right in our own backyards. In fact, Olmsted was so impressed with the radial street design already in place in Buffalo that he designed an entire system of parks and adjoining parkways and circles – the first in the nation, a plan later copied in cities across the country,” stated Trimble.
In February of 2003, award-winning photo journalist Melissa Farlow contacted the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy about visiting the Olmsted system. For the article, Ms. Farlow explained that she wanted to capture a “first snow” as it fell upon park trees and the majestic landscapes of the Olmsted-designed spaces. The photographer camped out one cold winter night and photographed some early morning shots of freshly fallen snow. She came back to Buffalo from her home in Pennsylvania on several occasions to take more pictures, but there was no guarantee the Buffalo pictures would be published in the highly acclaimed and popular National Geographic magazine. Recently, to our delight, the Conservancy was notified that two of the Buffalo photos would be included in the article, which is written by John G. Mitchell.
The two photographs were unveiled during a media and members reception in the Parkside Lodge in Delaware Park this morning. Conservancy Chair, Corinne Rice presented the photographs.
National Geographic magazine is the official journal of the National Geographic Society, one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational and scientific organizations. Published in English and 26 local-language editions, the magazine has a circulation of around 9 million that spans every country around the globe. It is sent each month to National Geographic members and is also available on newsstands for $4.95 a copy. Single copies can be ordered by calling (800) NGS-LINE, also the number to call to apply for membership of the Society.
The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, now in its 27th year, maintains Buffalo’s historic Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Park System, the first of its kind in the nation. In partnership with Erie County, the City of Buffalo and the community, the Conservancy works to revitalize Delaware, Cazenovia, Front, Martin Luther King, Jr., Riverside and South Parks and their connecting parkways, circles and other spaces. World-renown as the “Father of Landscape Architecture,” Olmsted also designed the Parkside neighborhood, the grounds of the H.H. Richardson Complex, Niagara Square, and the Niagara Falls State Park, as well as New York’s Central Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and the White House, Yosemite National Park and famous parks and green spaces throughout North America. To learn more about the Conservancy, call 838-1249 or visit http://www.joinolmsted.org. |
