This book explores how that greatest of all landscape architects, Frederick Law Olmsted, visualized 1,200 acres of woodlands and scrub growth and swamps and transformed them intoFlorham, the New Jersey country home of Florence Vanderbilt Twombly
Walter Cummins began teaching on the Florham campus in 1965. Now an emeritus professor of English, he is on the faculty of the MFA in creative writing and the MA in creative writing and literature. In addition to being the co-author of three previous books about Florham, he has published seven short story collections and a collection of essays and reviews titled Knowing Writers.
