BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Rhode Island Historical Society - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.rihs.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Rhode Island Historical Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T163000 DTSTAMP:20240328T103025 CREATED:20220412T162157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T190347Z UID:23400-1652626800-1652632200@www.rihs.org SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: Annual Goff Lecture to Celebrate Olmsted’s 200th with Laurence Cotton DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THAT THE GOFF LECTURE IS SOLD OUT. CAPACITY WILL NOT ALLOW FOR THE ADMITTANCE OF WALK-IN GUESTS. \nThe Rhode Island Historical Society will host public historian and filmmaker Laurence Cotton on Sunday\, May 15\, at 3 p.m.\, for its annual Goff Lecture highlighting the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted\, the master designer of public parks and a founder of the field landscape architecture. \nCotton will discuss the remarkable life and career of the Renaissance man Frederick Law Olmsted\, a prolific writer\, social reformer\, and advocate for the preservation of natural spaces. The talk will explore the influences of design traditions\, aesthetics\, and philosophies that shaped Olmsted’s thought—including English garden design\, the Hudson River School\, and Transcendentalism. \nThe program will be hosted at the historic Corlis-Carrington House across the street from the John Brown House Museum. Guests are encouraged to walk the grounds of the Great Lawn of the John Brown House following Cotton’s talk to learn more about the RIHS’s 200th-anniversary initiative Putting Down Roots\, which will see the transformation of Benefit’s Street’s largest greenspace. The new plans pay homage to the original landscape design of the Olmstead Brothers\, circa 1900. \nRegistration is limited. Currently\, this program is only available via a waitlist. For more information please see our buy tickets page\, or contact Kathryn Horrigan at 401-331-8575 x158 \nThe Annual Goff Lecture is a part of the Rhode Island Historical Society’s Bicentennial Celebrations\, sponsored by Amica Insurance. \nA practicing public historian\, Cotton was trained as a cultural anthropologist and brings that lens to bear on much of his work. He served as a historian\, filmmaker\, originator\, and consulting producer for the PBS special Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America. Currently based in Portland\, Oregon\, Cotton originally hails from Boston\, renowned for its Olmsted landscapes and the home base for the Olmsted Brothers firm. URL:https://www.rihs.org/event/annual-goff-lecture-to-celebrate-olmsteds-200th-with-laurence-cotton/ LOCATION:The John Brown House Museum\, 52 Power St\, Providence\, RI\, 02906-1012\, United States CATEGORIES:Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.rihs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Copy-of-Virtual-Walking-Tours-1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR