商品簡介
Lamb presents a history of Overton Park in Memphis, Tennessee as remembered by ordinary people. These memories show that the park is a refuge whose history speaks to the changing social and physical landscape of American life, he says, a microcosm of the movements and moments that have shaped the country. The Levitt Shell where music is performed was built by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression as the Overton Park Shell. The hallmark Japanese Garden was vandalized and officially removed after the attack on Pearl Harbor. There were sit-ins and arrests during the civil rights movement, and an environmental victory to stop a freeway from destroying the Old Forest during the 1970s. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Brooks Lamb is currently the conservation projects manager for rural lands at The Land Trust for Tennessee. A graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis and a 2016 Truman Scholar, he wrote Overton Park with the assistance of the Bonner Scholarship and a fellowship from the Rhodes Institute for Regional Studies.
