You will use the content below, along with the handout which provides step-by-step instructions, to create your story map. Normally, you will spend a significant amount of time doing your own research for a story map. For the purposes of this workshop, we did the work for you. Below is a link to the final product. You may use it as a reference while building your story map.
The content below can be used to populate your story map. Each Heading represents a different section of your story map. You may also find the story map brainstorming story board helpful. This was created in the planning stage before the story map was developed and represents a rough sketch of the story map on paper.
Follow the step-by-step exercise and the Esri story map journal template to get started.
Title of your Map Journal:
Celebrating the Father of Landscape Architecture in Connecticut
STEP 1: Main Stage Content:
Image URL:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Portrait_of_Frederick_Law_Olmsted.jpg
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
Frederick Law Olmsted is considered by many to be the father of American landscape architecture. Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1822, he was a member of the eighth generation of his family to live in the city. In 2005, Connecticut formally proclaimed April 26 of each year "Frederick Law Olmsted Day" in celebration of his legacy and contributions to the state's public landscapes. This story map highlights the landmarks on Connecticut's Olmsted Legacy Trail.
Section Title:
Designing America
STEP 1: Main Stage Content
Add Video
YouTube Video URL: https://youtu.be/n7tEkv2Rlk8
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an “environmental ethic” decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, and compelling commentary this film presents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.
Take some time to explore the website and watch full episodes of the documentary, Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America which premiered on PBS on June 20, 2014.
Section Title:
Olmsted's Birth Place
STEP 1: Main Stage Content:
Create a Map
Search for "Hartford, CT"
Add to Map Note
Map Note Title: Olmsted's Birth Place
Map Note Description: Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford, CT on April 26, 1822.
Map Note Image URL:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Portrait_of_Frederick_Law_Olmsted.jpg
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut on April 26, 1822, a member of the eighth generation of his family to live in the city. His father was a successful dry-goods merchant and a lover of scenery, and much of Olmsted's vacation time was spent with his family on "tours in search of the picturesque" through northern New England and upstate New York.
He later wrote, “The happiest recollections of my early life are the walks and rides I had with my father and the drives with my father and mother in the woods and fields. Sometimes these were quite extended, and really tours in search of the picturesque”.
Section Title:
Olmsted's Legacy
STEP 1: Main Stage Content:
Add Web page
Web page URL:
http://olmstedlegacytrail.com/
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
Well known for designing New York City’s Central Park and San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Olmsted also designed many of Connecticut's most important urban parks including Bridgeport’s Beardsley and Seaside parks, New Britain's Walnut Hill Park, as well as dozens of landscapes for institutions, subdivisions, estates and other privately owned grounds.
The The Olmsted Legacy Trail website shown on the right was created by the Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects to provide information about landscapes designed by Olmsted in Connecticut. The site’s objective is to provide education about Olmsted’s life and works in Connecticut.
Hyperlink URL: ctasla.org
Section Title:
Designing America
STEP 1: Main Stage Content
Add Video
YouTube Video URL: https://youtu.be/n7tEkv2Rlk8
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
The documentary Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America premiered on PBS on June 20, 2014.
To Olmsted, a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted’s efforts to preserve nature created an “environmental ethic” decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics. With gorgeous cinematography, and compelling commentary this film presents the biography of a man whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life. Take some time to explore the website and watch full episodes of the documentary.
Section Title:
Beardsley Park
STEP 1: Main Stage Content:
Content: Map
Map: Olmsted POIs
- Click Edit to edit map
Search for "Beardsley Park, CT"
Add to Map Note
Map Note Title: Beardsley Park
Map Note Description: Beardsley Park is a unique Connecticut treasure, with the only Zoological Garden (Beardsley Zoo) in the state nestled in its 125 acres of rolling parkland.
Map Note Image URL: http://s.uconn.edu/seasidepark
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
Beardsley Park is a unique Connecticut treasure, with the only Zoological Garden (Beardsley Zoo) in the state nestled in its 125 acres of rolling parkland. Olmsted's vision of the park presented to the city in 1884 is remarkably similar to what you will see today. "It is just the place for a day's outing. It is a better picnic ground than any possessed by the city of New York after spending twenty million dollars for parks."
Side panel Image URL:
http://s.uconn.edu/bpimage
Section Title:
Seaside Park
STEP 1: Main Stage Content:
Content: Map
Map: Olmsted POIs
- Click Edit to edit map
Search for "Seaside Park, CT"
Add to Map Note
Map Note Title: Seaside Park
Map Note Description:With its 325 acres of lush lawns, shady glades and sports fields rolling toward Long Island Sound, Seaside Park is a park without peer on the Eastern Seaboard.
Map Note Image URL: http://s.uconn.edu/beardsleypark
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
In 1864, Bridgeport citizens including Nathaniel Wheeler, P.T. Barnum, and Colonel William Noble bought and donated land along the shore to the city. By 1867 Olmsted’s firm had finished their plans, which included a seawall, a horse track, and pedestrian walkway, the only “rural marine open space” in the United States. Engineers drained the marshy borders, diked huge sections, and created circular drives and grassy lawns for the pleasure of Bridgeport’s citizens. Olmsted himself described the finished product as “a capital place for a drive or walk…a fine dressy promenade.”
Source URL:
http://bportlibrary.org/hc/architecture/the-foresight-of-seaside-park/
Side panel Image URL: http://s.uconn.edu/spimage
Section Title:
Frederick Law Olmsted Day
STEP 1: Main Stage Content:
Web page:
http://ctasla.org/library/events/Olmsted_Parks_In_Transition.pdf (notice it is a PDF)
Configure: Uncheck "load page over a secure connection"
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
April 26 is Frederick Law Olmsted Day in Connecticut. Celebrate his legacy by joining the CT Chapter of the American Association of Landscape Architects (CTASLA) and the National Association for Olmsted Parks, for "Olmsted Parks in Transition: Respecting the Past, Planning for the Future," a full-day conference in Hartford on Friday, April 28. Then again on Saturday, April 29 for a full-day bus tour of Olmsted sites in Greater Hartford.
Side Panel Image URL: http://www.bushnellpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/riverpcard.jpg
Section Title:
Additional Resources
STEP 1: Main Stage Content:
Image:
http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/shared/npr/styles/x_large/nprshared/201407/320363640.jpg
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
Interested in learning more about Frederick Law Olmsted? Check out additional resources below. ((note: create URL hyperlinks))
Olmsted Legacy Trail (Connecticut) - CTALSA
URL: http://olmstedlegacytrail.com/
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
URL: https://www.nps.gov/frla/index.htm
National Association for Olmsted Parks -
URL: http://www.olmsted.org/the-olmsted-legacy/frederick-law-olmsted-sr
Frederick Law Olmsted, Biography.com
URL: http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-law-olmsted-9428434
In the Media:
When Parks Were Radical - The Atlantic, September 2016
URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/better-than-nature/492716/
Olmsted's Parks Display the Genius of His Design - The Hartford Courant, 2014
URL: http://articles.courant.com/2014-07-30/news/hc-op-leff-olmsted-parks-0731-20140730_1_landscape-architects-olmsted-p-t-barnum
Jewels of Olmsted's Unspoiled Midwest - The New York Times, 2011
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/travel/jewels-of-olmsteds-unspoiled-midwest.html
A Ramble in Olmsted Parks - The New York Times, 2008
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/02/arts/20070103_LEEFRIEDLANDER_SLIDESHOW_index.html
Section Title:
About this Story Map
STEP 1: Main Stage Content: ((Add link to CLEAR website, or YOUR OWN website))
Add Web page
Web page URL: http://clear.uconn.edu/geospatial/workshops/storymaps.htm
STEP 2: Side Panel Content:
This story map was created by (your name here) as part of an educational workshop developed by the University of Connecticut's Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR).
Author contact information: ((your name and contact here)).
