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ALLEN, DAVID GRAYSON. The Olmsted National Historic Site And The Growth Of Historic Landscape Preservation. Northeastern University Press, Boston: 2007. ISBN: 1555536794

328 pages. A contextual history of Massachusetts' Olmsted National Historic Site. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the genius behind New York's Central Park. In 1883 Olmsted established "Fairsted" in suburban Boston, the world's first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design. Over the course of the next century, his sons and successors sustained and expanded upon Olmsted's design ideals, philosophy, and influence. His son, F. L. Olmsted, Jr., helped to lay the groundwork for the National Park Service in 1916. David Grayson Allen chronicles the creation and development of the Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts, which opened in 1979 after nearly a decade of struggle and controversy and now welcomes thousands of visitors and researchers every year. The Site's history is emblematic of the evolving role that landscape architecture plays in modern American lives and reflects the stunning transformation that has taken place within the National Park Service itself within the last quarter century. Original, sophisticated, meticulously researched, and well-written, The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation will resonate with readers interested in historic preservation and landscape architecture. The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Preface, List of Abbreviations. American Landscape Architecture and the Establishment of the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site The Beginnings of the Olmsted National Historic Site, Waging the Battle Anew, Early Development of the Olmsted National Historic Site and New Interest in Landscape Preservation, Early Developments at the Olmsted Site, Olmsted as a Traditional National Historic Site, The Cultural Landscape Preservation Movement Within the National Park Service, Fulfilling the Potential of the Site The Transformation of the Olmsted Collection, Site Changes and Developments, The Preservation of Historic Landscapes, Olmsted National Historic Site and the National Park Service, Appendixes, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and the National Park Service Organic Act of List of Interviewees for the Administrative History of Olmsted National Historic Site, Notes, Selected Bibliography Index. David Grayson Allen, a former NEH Fellow, is a principal of Allen Associates, a historical consulting firm in Concord, Massachusetts. His first of many books, In English Ways,won the Jamestown Prize of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and was a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently a consulting historian for the Department of Defense and is also writing a financial history of Boston. "Whether it's the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Central Park in New York City, the Capitol Grounds in Washington, D.C., or countless other beautiful urban parks in cities across America, we have Frederick Law Olmsted to thank for his magnificent creative vision and achievements. He understood the link between cultivating nature and civilizing humanity. He invented the art of landscaping and was responsible for bringing public green space into our urban centers. In this important book, David Grayson Allen expertly analyzes the intensive modern effort championed by the Olmsted National Historical Site to encourage landscape preservation nationwide and breathe new life into Olmsted's brilliant legacy for future generations."NEdward M. Kennedy, United States Senator Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.

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FAG RAG. A Gay Male Newspaper No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, No. 9, No. 10, No. 11, No. 13, No. 16/17, No. 18, No. 19, and No. 44, Cambridge, MA Fag Rag 1971-1987

Newspaper of 20 to 24 pp., except No. 44 which is a saddle-stapled magazine of 40 pp. A radical gay publication from the 70s. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Includes a typewritten letter from the Fag Rag Five faggots, soliciting subscriptions.
No. 1: Letters, editorial about sexual relationships, a report from the May Day conference in Atlanta, an article about being 27, gay, and full of anomie. Straight politics and the Socialist Workers Party. Third world gay revolution. Gay behind bars. The center spread is a handwritten bit from Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot. Gay Power meets Straight Lib: What happens when Queen Kong meets Gorgeous George. Reminiscences of a gay father. Gayness and the Cuban Revolution. Reprinting of gay phobic Dear Abbey article. Warning to look out for this guy who rips off gay organizations. Poetry. Listings of local gay organizations. And a photo of gay pride week '71.
No. 2: Editorial is A Tribute to Faggots. A reprint of Robert Duncan's article, The Homosexual in Society. An interview with Christopher Isherwood. Allan Young eulogizes Marshall Bloom, gay brother and founder of the Liberation News Service (LNS). Poetry by Vincent Sacardi, David Eberly, John Wieners, Charles Shively, Diedre Phelps, Arthur Kaplan, Christifa Sandborn. Charles Shively also contributes a thoughtful article on group sex. A review of the play Coming Out. Dan Kiefer reminisces about sex in the seminary school. J.C. Mitzel writes a sort-of Sm fantasy, The Boy Who Spoke in Pornography. Shively also reviews Kenneth Pitchford's Color Photos of the Atrocities. A case of job discrimination, by John Kyper. And a report of the Ohio Gay Pride celebration. In memoriam for Prescott Townsend. A listing of gay groups and periodicals. And legislative news.
No. 4: Letters. Guide to bars, baths, and books. An interview between a hustler and his customer. A gay vet speaks. Two ages of faggotry: old and gay, young and gay. Faggots and Welfare. A report from the the first international gay liberation congress held in Milan. Report from Gay Pride Week '72. Cocksucking as an act of revolution. Love behind bars, including a letter from Walpole Prison. I am a Black Faggot. and police entrapment on the Interstate rest stop.
No. 5: Editorial is A Tribute to Faggots. A reprint of Robert Duncan's article, The Homosexual in Society. An interview with Christopher Isherwood. Allan Young eulogizes Marshall Bloom, gay brother and founder of the Liberation News Service (LNS). Poetry by Vincent Sacardi, David Eberly, John Wieners, Charles Shively, Diedre Phelps, Arthur Kaplan, Christifa Sandborn. Charles Shively also contributes a thoughtful article on group sex. A review of the play Coming Out. Dan Kiefer reminisces about sex in the seminary school. J.C. Mitzel writes a sort-of Sm fantasy, The Boy Who Spoke in Pornography. Shively also reviews Kenneth Pitchford's Color Photos of the Atrocities. A case of job discrimination, by John Kyper. And a report of the Ohio Gay Pride celebration. In memoriam for Prescott Townsend. A listing of gay groups and periodicals. And legislative news.
No. 6: Printed on pink paper. Letters. Tom Reeves writes about being red and gay. Poetry by Michael Lally, Sativa Sagittarius, and Joseph Canarelli, Tom Cisco. Charles Shively about gay violence, and Wallflower at the revolution John Wieners on Jacqueline Kennedy. Seven meditations on political sado-masochism, with interesting photos. Reprint of Edward Carpenter on jealosy. Some notes on Myra B. by John Mitzel, Steve Abbot and the Gay Study Group. And an open letter to The Advocate.
No 9: Stonewall 5th Anniversary Issue, in conjunction with Gay Sunshine. Indiscriminate promiscuity as an act of revolution. An interview with Ned Rorem. Reflections on the gay movement by Rictor Norton. Biography of John Horne Burns: A forgotten faggot. Charles Shively on Stephen Jonas. The betrayal of Donald Webster Corey, aka Edward Sagarin. Gay liberation without Marx or Jesus. Reproductions of photos by David Greene. On human and gay identity: a liberationist dilemma. LA Gay community center by Richard Nash, and the Seattle Gay Community Center by Jim Arnold. Interview with filmmaker Arthur Bressan. Review of Steven Gorssman: Gay Musician. Personal reflections on gay liberation fro the third world, by Leonard Andrews, Jr. Poetry by Sal Farinella, William Barber, Kenward Elmslie, Paul Mariah, Robert Peters, Allen Ginsberg, Ron Schreiber, John Giorno, Harold Norse. . Poetry and book reviews.
No. 10: Letters. Poetry, Cockscuking & Revolution by Charles Shively. Panel discussion, lives of the poets. Remembering the poet Auden. Poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Salvatore Farinella, Ron Schrieber, Terence Winch, John LaPorta, John Kyper, Louie Crew, Glenn Davis, Owen Wilson, Jerry Heft, Donley Stanley Meuse, Koke Vacha, and more.
No. 11: Part III of Arthur Evans Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture. Dr. Andrew Genn answers, what are gay hormones? Dr. Frankel, Where are you? By Allen Young. Photo and article by John Weiners. Sheet music and words for modified SM christmas songs. Fag Rag blasphemous Christian gift catalogue. Charles Shively writes On the Rim of Christmas. A big gay crossword puzzle. Bunny Larue & Danny McGonagle's smart quean's shopper's guide to today's religions. An article about gay pulp paperbacks by Gary Jane Hoisington, called Trashing it Up. Jerome Perlinski on sexual holiness. John Cummings on Faggot Femininity. Poetry by Prince-Eusi Ndugu, and much more.
No. 13: John Mitzel writes Clay Shaw, the Quean Network, & That Kennedy Killing, or, the Gay Version of the Warren Report and its critics. Notes towards an ideology of the gay everything. An interview iwth Chris Robonson. Part 5 of Arthur Evans article on Witchcraft: The Gay Counterculture; this one looking at the Mass Murder of Women and Gays. A remembrance of Allyn Amundson. Salvatore Farinella on Is there Life Before Death? A reprint of a Master Key article on how to manage the homosexual in prison. An unusual article on the Relation of Biographies of Judy Garland to the Average Level of the US Money Supply. Reprint of Wall Street Journal article on new campaigns to sell to homosexual market. Nipple Questionnaire. Poetry by Freddie Greenfield, John Laporta, James Frase-White, J.D. Butkie, Esskoert, Neal H. Kristo, Grig Fillar, Danny Goodman.
No. 18: Charles Shively writes Incest as an Act of Revolution. Censorship is a Crime, illustrated with letters from the Bureau of Prisons who censor Fag Rag. Poetry by Ed Camp, R. Bogaert Smith, Daniel Drenga, A. Bruno, Dick Higgins, James F. Williams, John Lemaire, freddie greenfield, Jack Veasey, Mark Huestis, S.R. Lavin, Ron Morgan, tom reeves, and many more. A continuation of an article on witchcraft, magic and the gay counterculture. Allen Young on tender lovemaking, i.e. S&M sexuality.
No. 19: Letters. Article by Hubert Kennedy entitled J.B. Schweitzer: The Faggot Marx Loved to Hate. Poetry by Salvatore Farinella, Graham L., Mark Wekander, Freddie Greenfield, Ray Horton, Tom Felt, David Kline, richi macdougall, Mark Lofstrom, John Franck. Plus two pages of leather / SM tye poetry by Thomas Sypek, Gregory Pond, Louis Solnicki, Louie Crew. Fiction by Tom Felt. Charles Shively on Cosmetics as an act of Revolution, illustrated with drawings and a photo of some Cockettes taken by John Scagliotti. Fiction/memoir by Jim Jackman about the Ports o Call.
No. 44: Letters, S.H. on Things Learnt on the Streets. Chele on Revolutionary Love in Central America. Hakim Bey writes China Sea Postcars. Pieces of Freddie Greenfield, with FTW jailhouse art. Charles Shively reviews John Wieners selected poems. Prose by Glenn Sheldon, Edward Marcotte. Poetry by Lee Thorn, Brad Learmonth, Gregg Shapiro, Kevin Beliele, Peter McNamara, Vernon Maulsby, Jim Smythe, Michael Swift, David Emerson Rezabek.
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Gold, H. L. (ed) -Neal Barrett Jr., David Duncan, Gordon R. Dickson, Edward Wellen, Allen Kim Lang, Alfred Cappel, Marshall King, James Stamers, Andrew Fetler, Stanley R. Lee, +: Galaxy October 1960, The Immortals, The Stentorii Luggage, World in a Bottle, The Hours are Good, A Fall of Glass, Cry Snooker, The Imitation of Earth, Beach Scene, The Hills of Home, Origins of the Galactic Short-Snorter, + New York Galaxy Pub. 1960
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-----194 pages, tight clean and square, minor edge wear. Contents include: The Hours Are Good by Gordon R. Dickson / A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee / Origins of the Galactic Short-Snorter by Edward Wellen / Cry Snooker by Andrew Fetler / The Imitation of Earth by James Stamers / Beach Scene by Marshall King / The Hills of Home by Alfred Coppel (aka Robert Cham Gilman, A C Marin) / The Immortals by David Duncan / The Sentorii Luggage by Neal Barrett, Jr. / World in a Bottle by Allen Kim Lang. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual mag and not a stock photo First Edition Soft Cover

[SW: Gold, H. L. (ed) -Neal Barrett Jr., David Duncan, Gordon R. Dickson, Edward Wellen, Allen Kim Lang, Alfred Cappel, Marshall King, James Stamers, Andrew Fetler, Stanley R. Lee, + Galaxy October 1960, The Immortals, The Stentorii Luggage, World in a Bottle, The Hours are Good, A Fall of Glass, Cry Snooker, The Imitation of Earth, Beach Scene, The Hills of Home, Origins of the Galactic Short-Snorter, + Mel Hunter, -----194 pages, tight clean and square, minor edge wear. Contents include: The Hours Are Good by Gordon R. Dickson / A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee / Origins of the Galactic Short-Snorter by Edward Wellen / Cry Snooker by Andrew Fetler / The Imitation of Earth by James Stamers / Beach Scene by Marshall King / The Hills of Home by Alfred Coppel (aka Robert Cham Gilman, A C Marin) / The Immortals by David Duncan / The Sentorii Luggage by Neal Barrett, Jr. / World in a Bottle by Allen Kim Lang. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual mag and not a stock PhotoFantasy and Science Fiction]

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FELVER, CHRISTOPHER; FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE (EULOGY); SHAPIRO, DAVID (IN MEMORY OF ALLEN BY); CHERKOVSKI, NEELI & FELVER (PICTOGRAMS). The Late Great Allen Ginsberg: A Photo Biography. Thunder's Mouth Press, New York: 2002. ISBN: 1560253827

120 pages. A complex and many-faceted life is given its due in this inspired photographic portrait of Allen Ginsberg's life as poet, spiritualist, friend, lover, performer, teacher, and lover of good times, from 1980 through 1997. The Late Great Allen Ginsberg is a deeply moving recollection of America's most important post-World War II poet, informed by Ginsberg's sensitivity, his humanitarianism, and his love of life. "Allen Ginsberg spent hardly any time alone," and many of the seminal figures of contemporary culture knew and worked with Allen and have a place in this book: Cecil Taylor, David Amram, Philip Glass, Ray Manzarek, Ed Sanders, Czeslaw Milosz, Norman Mailer, Robert Frank, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Robert Creeley, Peter Orlovsky and others. Softcover. Brand new book.

[SW: (Key Words: Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Felver, Photography, Poets, Biography, David Shapiro, Neeli Chrkovski, Eulogies, Cecil Taylor, David Amram, Philip Glass, Ray Manzarek, Ed Sanders, Czeslaw Milosz, Norman Mailer, Robert Frank, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Robert Creeley, Peter Orlovsky).]

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