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A Green Place to Be
The Creation of Central Park
Author: Ashley Benham Yazdani
Narrator: John Pruden
Unabridged: 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 05/17/2019
Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Biographical, History, US History, Gardening
Synopsis
In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. The people needed a green place to be—a park with ponds to row on and paths for wandering through trees and over bridges. When a citywide contest solicited plans for creating a park out of barren swampland, Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted put their heads together to create the winning design, and the hard work of making their plans a reality began. By winter, the lake opened for skating. By the next summer, the waterside woodland known as the Ramble opened for all to enjoy. Meanwhile, sculptors, stonemasons, and master gardeners joined in to construct thirty-four unique bridges, along with fountains, pagodas, and band shells, making New York’s Central Park a green gift to everyone.