Where We Live: Olmsted's Legacy

A walk trough Central Park puts you in touch with its creator – Frederick Law Olmsted. But it’s not just this grand park smack in the middle of the world’s busiest island that have Olmsted’s stamp. It’s also the Emerald Necklace around Boston, Mont Royal Park overlooking Montréal, the grounds of the US Capitol and the vistas overlooking the gushing waters of Niagara Falls. But Olmsted was more than just the father of landscape architecture. He was a New York Times correspondent to the confederate states, the manager of a California gold mine, and worked for the government during the civil war. Today, two fresh looks at Olmsted – through a biography in print and on film. And we’ll visit Hartford’s Pope Park which contains traces of his legacy and has been for years in need of restoration.