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Author
Publisher
The Newport Tree Conservancy
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the "Eden of America" in the First Geography of the United States. In the nineteenth century, landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, created dramatic gardens by the sea for his wealthy clients, and artists from John Frederick Kensett to Henry James and Thornton Wilder celebrated the city as a verdant paradise in painting, poetry, and prose. America's Eden: Newport Landscapes...