Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park: Winter 2022
Site: Forest and farm in Woodstock, Vermont, with ties to several generations of American conservationsists.
Students: Furniture Design, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture, Graphic Design, Landscape Design.
Themes: Abenaki and colonialist ecologies, the emergence of conservation, the politics of environmentalism, biography of landscape.
Books and Selected Essays: Charles Perkins Marsh, Man and Nature; Lisa Brooks, “Every Swamp is a Castle;” Thomas Wickman, “Severe Cold, Wabanaki Power, and English Adjustments, 1690-1710;” Adam Rome, “Gender and Environmental Reform in Progressive America;” David Lowenthal, “Nature and Morality from George Perkins Marsh to the Millenium.”
Guests: Patrick Morgan, University of Louisiana-Monroe; Rolf Diamant, University of Vermont & former superintendent of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHS.
Exhibition: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Forest Center, September-October 2022.
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