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...Orchard Professor in the History of LandscapeDevelopment John R. Stilgoe predicts that in thecoming years, many of Harvard's familiar treeswill succumb to the blight...
True, this was common sense. But fashion has always been a more urgent mistress, especially when fashion comes cheap. The 19th century ushered in an era of cheap coal delivered by train. According to Orchard Professor of History in Landscape Development John Stilgoe, this inexpensive fuel and inventions such as tar paper, which could seal out the wind, led Americans away from energy-conserving design practices...
Nowhere has massive, sudden growth struck more dramatically than Orange County. Robert Haskill, 39, a Newport Beach insurance man who is a fourth- generation resident of the county, still remembers how his grandfather lost his orchard to a freeway in 1960 and how, even in the late 1960s, fields of sugar beets and lima beans and perfumed orange groves stretched along Route 55 from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa. That arcadian vision lasted until nearly 1970. Then, in just 20 years, Orange County grew by nearly 1 million people as 90,000 acres were transformed into commercial "edge cities," freeways...
Friel has been much influenced by Chekhov. Aristocrats was unabashedly Chekhovian, a sort of Ballybeg version of The Cherry Orchard. But Chekhov never attempted anything like Lughnasa's narrative complexity, and never wrote so richly about the unprivileged. This time there are no echoes of homage in Friel's work, just authentic originality...
Exertion, Obesity and Estuarine Wilderness--a brown bag lunch with Robert and Lois Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape Development John Stilgoe. At 12:30 p.m. in room 109 of Gund Hall...