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Warren H. Manning: A Biography of the Landscape Architect and a History of His Work Staff and Principal Researchers: LALH Staff Robin Karson directs the Warren H. Manning Research Project and is executive director and founder of Library of American Landscape History in Amherst, Massachusetts, and an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. She has written on Manning for several publications, including Fletcher Steele, Landscape Architect (1989, rev. 2003), Nature and Ideology (contributor, 1993), The Muses of Gwinn (1995), Pioneers of American Landscape Design (contributor, 2000), and A Genius for Place (2007). Jane Roy Brown assists in the coordination of the Warren H. Manning Research Project and is the director of educational outreach for Library of American Landscape History, is a writer and editor who frequently contributes to Landscape Architecture. She earned a certificate in landscape-design history at the former Radcliffe Seminars program at Radcliffe College (now the Landscape Institute at Arnold Arboretum). Queries about the project may be directed to: Library of American Landscape History Researchers Arnold R. Alanen, ASLA, Affiliate, is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His academic career has focused on landscape history and historic preservation for three decades. Alanen is co-editor of the award-winning book, Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America (2000), and worked on the nomination that resulted in the inclusion of a Manning-designed landscape, the model town of Gwinn, Michigan, in the National Register of Historic Places. Phyllis Andersen, ASLA, a landscape historian and the former director of the Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies of the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, is an instructor in landscape history and preservation at the Arboretum’s Landscape Institute. Her recent articles include “The Arnold Arboretum and the Early Years of Landscape Design Education in America” in Arnoldia (2003), and “If Washington Were Here Himself, He Would Be on My Side: Charles Sprague Sargent and the Preservation of the Mount Vernon Landscape,” in Design with Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage (2005). Michael Barton is Professor of American Studies and Social Science and Director of the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. His interest in Manning came out of his research on Harrisburg's "City Beautiful" movement, which is described in his books Life by the Moving Road: An Illustrated History of Greater Harrisburg (2nd ed. 1998), Harrisburg's Old Eighth Ward (2002), and Bellevue Park: The First 100 Years (2009). Reid Bertone-Johnson, ASLA, former Manning project coordinator for LALH, is an associate landscape architect at Dodson Associates in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and a lecturer in the Landscape Studies program at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. His research and professional interests include the landscape designs and planning of Warren H. Manning and the integration of technological tools including GIS, AutoCAD, and 3D modeling into the design process. Lynn Bjorkman, AICP, is currently an architectural historian for the National Park Service at Keweenaw National Historical Park in Calumet, Michigan. Her work in Upper Michigan and her interests in landscape history led to her studies of Warren Manning’s design projects for copper mining communities in Calumet and Warren, Arizona. Mackenzie Greer earned a dual degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in landscape architecture and regional planning while coordinating the Manning Research Project from 2007–2009. She now works as a community planner with Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, providing planning and community development services communities in Berkshire County. Mackenzie enjoys lake living in Lanesboro, Mass., with her husband and their menagerie. William J. Grundmann, ASLA, is Associate Professor of landscape architecture at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he is the curator of the Warren H. Manning Collection. The collection consists of approximately 1,850 of Manning’s drawings, plans, and blueprints; photographs and clippings; glass lantern slides; published Manning office project reports; and journal articles by and about Manning. Grundmann has published a brief article on Manning in American Landscape Architecture: Designers and Places, presented a paper on the Milwaukee parks designed by Manning, and been involved with rehabilitation and restoration plans for several historic properties in the Midwest. Martha Lyon, ASLA, is a registered landscape architect, adjunct professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts, and proprietor of Martha Lyon Landscape Architecture, LLC, a firm based in Northampton, Massachusetts, specializing in design, historic preservation, and planning. While restoring an historic cemetery in 2003, she discovered the oldest known drawing prepared by Warren Manning, an illustration of his 1888 design for the Straw Lot of Pine Grove Cemetery, Manchester, New Hampshire. In 2004, she published “The Legacy of Warren Manning,” an article detailing Manning’s work in New Hampshire and Maine, in the Journal of the Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks and Landscapes.
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