OLMSTED 2022 Celebrating Olmsted’s Legacy "Two hundred years after his birth, America continues to be challenged with issues of social justice and conservation for which Olmsted was a most persevering, principled pioneer." Gerry Wright FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED:  Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man one-man play by Gerry Wright Gerry Wright has researched, written and produced a one-man show honoring the life and work of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture. The play provides insights into Olmsted's passionate vision as he played critical roles in the dynamics of slavery as a writer, Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission in the Civil War, and as the landscape architect for New York City's Central Park, Boston's Emerald Necklace, the US Capitol grounds, along with multiple plans for colleges, communities and private estates.  Olmsted was a key pioneer in the movement to preserve land as national parkland, both at Yosemite and Niagara Falls. Olmsted's life story, from "vagabond," to dry goods salesman, sailor, traveler, journalist, author, publisher, executive (including a goldmine in California), to becoming the father of landscape architecture in America is both inspiring as history and reason for continued commitment in the 21st century. The Olmsted play has been presented at the Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Boston’s 375th Anniversary Parade, Brookline’s 350th Anniversary Celebration, plus numerous communities of the Commonwealth; along with performances in Volgoda, Russia; in New York City for the 150 year anniversary of the legislation for Central Park; Olmsted Parks Conservancy in Louisville, Kentucky; and in Asheville, North Carolina. Expanded Program Details, Videos, Photographs, Reviews  HERE Performance at Maryland Humanities Council "Chautauqua" in July 2010 "Beyond Boundaries" by Gerry Wright as Frederick Law Olmsted at Germantown Campus of Montgomery College Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r97ljW26EtQ PRESS RELEASE Regarding:  "Olmsted and Whitman Civil War Years" one man plays by Gerry Wright When:  Earth Day, Sunday, April 22nd, 7 PM Where:  First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Eliot and Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA MA. Wheel Chair Accessible Admission: Free Information: Gerry Wright 617-524-7070  FrederickLawOlmsted@yahoo.com Photographs: Stephen Baird, Community Arts Advocates, 617-522-3407 info@CommunityArtsAdvocates.org   The plays are written, directed, and acted by Gerry Wright, who has been immersed in the work of conservation and human services for 50 years. Gerry Wright works in areas of human services, environmental advocacy, international relations.  In the 1960s he founded DARE Incorporated, a nonprofit agency in Massachusetts which pioneered new community services for adolescents with social and emotional problems due to poverty and neglect.  He has also championed projects that foster international communication, beginning at the time he ran the Moscow Marathon in 1982, and co-founded the Worldwide Running Club for Peace with the president of the Moscow Running Club.  He has received numerous awards, including the 2008 Robert F. Kennedy Embracing the Legacy Award and named Father of Community Based Caring in Massachusetts by president of the State Senate.  Wright is founder and president of Friends of Jamaica Pond and has been portraying Frederick Law Olmsted since 2003.  He holds a BS from the forestry school at the University of Maine and a MS in wildlife conservation from Cornell University, Further graduate study include philosophy, theology, sociology, psychology, and clinical counseling at Boston University and Harvard University.

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"Let it be not for present use and delight alone, but let it be of such a work that our descendents will thank us for it." Frederick Law Olmsted