8:00

Registration (Omni)

8:30

Introductory Comments  Jefferson Ballroom

Craig Barton
Chair, Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia

Dennis Reidenbach
Regional Director, Northeast Region, National Park Service

Karen Van Lengen
Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Virginia

Mary Bomar
Director, National Park Service

Notes from Session

9:00

Translation of Landscape Attitudes  Jefferson Ballroom

John Dixon Hunt
Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape, University of Pennsylvania
Speaker Bio and Paper Abstract...

Notes from Session

10:00

Break

10:15 

Morning Sessions (Choose)

:: Culture and the Natural Environment  Jefferson Ballroom

Moderator: Richard Guy Wilson, University of Virginia

Richard Longstreth, Camp Santanoni and the Adirondack Forest Preserve

Patricia Likos Ricci, Forever Wild: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and the Making of the Adirondack State Park

Arnold R. Alanen, Sitka National Historical Park: Accommodating and Interpreting Tlingit, Russian, and American History in an Alaskan Setting

Notes from Session

:: European Precedents  Ashlawn & Highlands Room

Moderator: Reuben Rainey, University of Virginia

E. Lynn Miller, Puckler-Muskau and His Influence on American Park Design

Esther Da Costa Meyer, Second Nature: Municipal Parks in Second-Empire Paris

Catharina Nolin, Urban Parks in Sweden at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Search for National Identity and for the Conservation of Nature

Notes from Session

  :: U.S. Parks in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries James Monroe Room

Moderator: Shaun Eyring, Northeast Regional Office, National Park Service

Emily T. Cooperman, The First Federal Park: The State House Square: Its Creation and Reception in the Early Republic

Kathryn Papacosma, The History and Design of Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Jana Cephas, Visions and Visionaries : Designing Detroit’s Belle Isle

Notes from Session

11:45  

Lunch

12:45 

Early Afternoon Sessions (Choose)

:: Memorial Competitions, 1827-2007  Jefferson Ballroom

Moderator: Harriet F. Senie, City College and the Graduate Center, City University

Sally Webster, Column or Obelisk: Choosing a Design for the Bunker Hill Monument

Bill Lebovich, A Mid-Twentieth Century Turning Point: Eero Saarinen and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Competition

Kent Cooper, Competitions in the Era of War Veterans Memorials: Vietnam and Korea

Jeff Reinbold, From Common Field to Field of Honor: Creating the Flight 93 National Memorial

Lisa Austin and Madis Pihlak, Attribution Issues in the 9/11, Flight 93 Memorial Competition

Notes from Session

 :: Park System Design  Ashlawn & Highlands Room

Moderator: Charles Birnbaum, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Karl Haglund, The Regional Vision of the Boston Metropolitan Park System

Kathleen LaFrank, A State Park Plan for New York: A Landmark in the History of Recreational Planning

JC Miller, Postwar Modernism and the Suburban California Park: Robert Royston’s “Landscape Matrix”

Notes from Session

 :: U.S. Parks in the Early Twentieth Century James Monroe Room

Moderator: Robin Bachin, University of Miami

Judith K. Major, The Landscape Gardening Critic and the Motorcar

Brian Katen, Parks Apart: African-American Recreational Landscapes in Virginia

Katherine Solomonson, Enacting Discovery: Itasca State Park and the Source of the Mississippi River

Notes from Session

2:15 

Break

2:30

Romanticism and the American Landscape  Jefferson Ballroom

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
President, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Speaker Bio and Paper Abstract...

Notes from Session

3:30 

Late Afternoon Sessions (Choose)

:: Wilderness With a View  Jefferson Ballroom

Moderator: Peggy Albee Vance, Northeast Regional Office, National Park Service

Timothy Davis, ‘Everyone Has Carriage Road on the Brain’: Designing for Vehicles in Pre-Automotive Parks

David Louter, Wilderness on Display: Shifting Ideals of Cars and National Parks

Tom McCarthy, Americans, Automobiles, and the Environment

Notes from Session

:: Parks and Transportation  Ashlawn & Highlands Room

Moderator: Woody Smeck, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

Patrick Shea and Kevin Percival, National Park Roads and Transportation Planning

Theodore Catton, The Road Not Taken: Transportation Alternatives in National Park Planning in the 1970s

James C. O’Connell, The Struggles to Maintain Boston’s Metropolitan Park System in the Latter 20th Century

Notes from Session

:: Battlefields and Archeology  James Monroe Room

Moderator: Cindy MacLeod, Independence National Historical Park

Lucienne Thys-Senocak, Divided Spaces, Contested Pasts: The Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park

Liz Sargent and Jenny Mikulski, Vicksburg National Military Park: An Evolving American Icon

Hope H. Hasbrouck, Place and the Historical Imagination in the Archeological Park

Notes from Session

5:00

End of Conference Day 1

6:00

Reception + Dinner

Dome Room of the Rotunda, University of Virginia
Ticket Required

Comments and Lecture:

Janet Snyder Matthews
Associate Director for Cultural Resources, National Park Service

Richard Guy Wilson
Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia

8:30 

Introductory Comments  Jefferson Ballroom

Jon Jarvis
National Park Service

Richard Guy Wilson
University of Virginia

Notes from Session

9:00

Public Nature: National Parks & their Visitors  Jefferson Ballroom

Ethan Carr
Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Speaker Bio and Paper Abstract...

Notes from Session

10:00

Break

10:15 

Morning Sessions (Choose)

:: Yosemite National Park  Ashlawn & Highlands Room

Moderator: Kimball Koch, Pacific West Regional Office, National Park Service

Sueann Brown, Rustic Style Village and Park Design at Yosemite National Park

Daniel Schaible, Conflicting Mandates: A History of Yosemite National Parks Concessionaire's

Sky Skach, Cultural and Natural Preservation at Yosemite National Park: Visionary or Reactionary?

Notes from Session

:: Shenandoah National Park James Monroe Room

Moderator: Randy Mason, University of Pennsylvania

Linda Flint McClelland, Skyline Drive and the Legacy of the Southern Appalachian National Parks Committee

Katrina M. Powell, Designing Parks, Incorporating Cultural History, and Issues of Displacement

Erin Krutko, Lewis Mountain: Segregation in Shenandoah National Park

Notes from Session

:: The CCC and State Parks  Jefferson Ballroom

Moderator: Lucy Lawliss, Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, National Park Service

Neil M. Maher, Playing Politics: Franklin Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Park Development During the New Deal Era

Heidi Hohmann, From Pariah to Paragon: The Redesign of Platt National Park, 1933-1940

Stephen R. Mark, Rustic Park Design on the Oregon Coast

Notes from Session

11:45  

Lunch

12:45 

Early Afternoon Sessions (Choose)

:: A Borrowed Landscape: Politics, Design and Management
of the Blue Ridge Parkway  Ashlawn & Highlands Room

Moderator: Joe Crystal, Denver Service Center, National Park Service

Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Beyond Aesthetics: Politics and the Design of the Blue Ridge Parkway

Ian Firth, The Design of the Parkway

Gary W. Johnson, How the Past Influences Parkway Management

Notes from Session

:: Science and Scientists James Monroe Room

Moderator: Alex Brash, National Parks Conservation Association

James Pritchard, Preserving Natural Conditions: Scientists’ Vision for the Parks

Etienne S. Benson, ‘A Mundane Laboratory Atmosphere’?: Adolph Murie and the Place of Science in Denali National Park and Preserve

Mark David Spence, Building a Forest for the Trees: Natural Resource Management as Landscape Design in Redwood National and State Parks

Notes from Session

:: Evolving Park Ideals  Jefferson Ballroom

Moderator: Charlie Clapper, Retired Director, Denver Service Center, National Park Service

Catherin Bull, From Barren Assemblage to World Heritage: The Conceptual and Physical Construction of the Blue Mountains, Australia, 1788-2000

Dan Marriott, Determining the Design Origins of the Carriage Road System at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park

Sarah Mittlefehldt, Negotiating Nature, Power, and Authority in the Making of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail

Notes from Session

2:15 

Break

2:30 

Late Afternoon Sessions (Choose)

:: Modernism and Parks  Jefferson Ballroom

Moderator: Randy Biallas, Washington Office, National Park Service

Elizabeth Flint, Jackson Lake Lodge

Elaine Jackson-Retondo, Lake Mead National Recreation Area: Managing the Past for the Present and the Future

Christine Madrid French, The Visitor Center as Monument: Re-Contextualizing Richard Neutra’s Cyclorama Center at Gettysburg

Notes from Session

:: Parks Abroad  Ashlawn & Highlands Room

Moderator: Stephanie Toothman, Pacific West Regional Office, National Park Service

Tal Alon-Mozes, Israeli National Parks and the Search for National Identity

Ute Hasenöhrl, From Animal Sanctuary to Primeval Forest: Changes in the Function of National    Parks and the Perceptions of an ‘Ideal’ Nature in Germany during the 1960s and 1970s

Robert W. Smurr, Lahemaa: The Paradox of the USSR’s First National Park

Notes from Session

:: Unbuilding Parks James Monroe Room

Moderator: Rodger Evans, Denver Service Center, National Park Service

Ray Todd, Unbuilding National Parks

M. J. Morris, Honoring Diversity in Heritages: Interpreting African-American History at a Native American Archeological Site

Diane L. Krahe, Re-evaluating Human Habitat and Visitor Frolic in the National Parks: Lassen Volcanic National Park

Notes from Session

4:00 

Park Planning and Design: Looking to the Past; Building for the Future (Panel Discussion)  Jefferson Ballroom

Daniel N. Wenk, Moderator
Deputy Director, National Park Service

Panelists:
Cheryl Barton, Principal, Office of Cheryl Barton, San Francisco CA
Catherine Barner, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Charles A. Birnbaum, President, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
Elaine Jackson-Retondo, Architectural Historian, National Park Service
John J. Reynolds, Former Deputy Director, National Park Service

Notes from Session

Thoughts+ IdEAs

5:30

End of Conference Day 2

6:15

Reception sold out

Colonnade Club, University of Virginia
Hosted by the University of Virginia Press
Tours of the Academical Village

Ticket Required

8:00am

Guided Field Trips Depart from Omni (Choose)

The Journey Through Hallowed Ground
The Journey Through Hallowed Ground national heritage area extends 175 miles from Charlottesville to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania along the Route 15 corridor, a historic north/south route through the Piedmont region. The corridor connects Monticello and the University of Virginia (both World heritage Sites) to the Gettysburg National Military Park, and along the way encompasses Presidential homes, many significant Civil War battlefields, a series of historic downtowns in the process of revitalization, and extensive areas of scenic Piedmont countryside. This group will head north along the corridor through the farms north of Shadwell in Albemarle County, to the historic downtown of Gordonsville. From there the tour will continue to James Madison’s home, Montpelier, one of fifteen National Historic landmarks in the corridor. A tour of one or more Civil War battlefield sites is also planned.

Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive
Shenandoah National Park was established in 1935 and includes about 300 square miles of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Skyline Drive was completed in the 1930s with the help of Civilian Conservation Corps labor, and the Appalachian Trail also runs the length of the park parallel to the historic drive.  This group will drive the Skyline Drive, and will visit several historic developed areas, including Lewis Mountain and Big Meadows. On the way back, the group will also visit the Blue Ridge Parkway, and hear about the history of this famous road which extends from the southern end of Shenandoah over 400 miles to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Appalachian Trail Guided Hike sold out
The Appalachian Trail (A.T.) is a 2,175-mile long footpath stretching through 14 eastern states from Maine to Georgia. Conceived in 1921 and first completed in 1937, it traverses the wild, scenic, wooded, pastoral, and culturally significant lands of the Appalachian Mountains. Learn first-hand how the world-famous Appalachian National Scenic Trail was conceived, designed, built, and protected, and how it is still managed and maintained today by a remarkable partnership between private citizen volunteers and public agencies. This field trip will combine a moderate hike on this world-famous footpath as it travels through Shenandoah National Park, with short presentations by volunteers and professionals telling the story of how the A.T. came to be. May is an excellent time to experience the cultural and natural beauty of this magnificent resource. Each participant should bring appropriate footwear, a lunch, raingear, a camera, and a small daypack. Space on this field trip is limited to 20 participants.

4:00pm

Buses Return to the Omni