Writing the Landscape

'Writing the Landscape' exhibit
opens Feb. 1 at Du Bois Library

The exhibit "Writing the Landscape: Books from the Library of American Landscape History," featuring several books from the Library of American Landscape History and works by landscape photographer Carol Betsch, opens Feb. 1 at the Learning Commons in the Du Bois Library.

The Library of American Landscape History is a nonprofit organization based in Amherst whose mission is to educate and promote thoughtful stewardship of the land. The award-winning LALH publishing program includes books, surveys, and reprints of classics in the field, such as the "Book of Landscape Gardening" by Frank Waugh, founder of the Landscape Architecture Program. Betsch is the managing editor of University of Massachusetts Press, with whom LALH maintains its primary publishing partnership.

A reception is being held Thursday, Feb. 4 from 4-6 pm

For more information, contact Madeleine Charney, 577-0784, or Jessica Dawson, 549-4860.

Image: Carol Betsch. West Gazebo before Storm, Gwinn estate, Cleveland, Ohio. Gwinn, an important American estate of the "Country Place Era," is featured in a recent LALH book, "A Genius for Place."