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HUBERT B. OWENS (1905–89), a professor of landscape design, established UGA’s landscape architecture program in 1928. He was named the first dean of the School of Environmental Design in 1969 and served as director of the American Society of Landscape Architects between 1965 and 1967. He also designed several gardens throughout Georgia and the South at large, including UGA’s Founders Memorial Garden.
DREW SWANSON is a professor of history at Wright State University. He is the author three books: Beyond the Mountains: Commodifying Appalachian Environments, A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South, and Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape.
Georgia’s Planting Prelate consists of notes on the life of the Reverend Stephen Elliott, a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the mid-1800s and the only presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. These notes are accompanied by the full text of the bishop’s address on horticulture given in 1851 in Macon, which displays his remarkable knowledge of southern agriculture.
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Georgia’s Planting Prelate consists of notes on the life of the Reverend Stephen Elliott, a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the mid-1800s and the only presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
HUBERT B. OWENS (1905–89), a professor of landscape design, established UGA’s landscape architecture program in 1928. He was named the first dean of the School of Environmental Design in 1969 and served as director of the American Society of Landscape Architects between 1965 and 1967. He also designed several gardens throughout Georgia and the South at large, including UGA’s Founders Memorial Garden.
DREW SWANSON is a professor of history at Wright State University. He is the author three books: Beyond the Mountains: Commodifying Appalachian Environments, A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South, and Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape.