ANNOUNCEMENTS
A series of events, June 13-16, 2012, celebrate the sesquicentennial of the founding of Chicago's Graceland Cemetery and a new book developed by Library of American Landscape History, Graceland Cemetery: A Design History by Christopher Vernon. Vernon will lead a symposium at the Chicago History Museum on June 16.

A second new LALH book, The Native Landscape Reader, edited by Robert E. Grese, will be celebrated with a second series of events (June 17-20, 2012), led by Grese, with Vernon participating. These events will focus broadly on the region’s pioneering landscape legacy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Both volumes examine little-known aspects of important landscape architectural developments, particularly the “prairie spirit” in landscape design that, between 1900 and 1930, won Graceland Cemetery international acclaim. The June 16 symposium will include presentations by Julia Bachrach, Archivist for the Chicago Park District, and Ted Wolff, a Chicago-based landscape architect who has worked at Graceland Cemetery for the past two decades.