There are many reasons for preserving a landscape. You might have personal reasons for wanting to document a landscape. You might want to recreate your grandmother's garden or other personal landscape or garden. Or it might be a professional or civic reason - you are a member of an organization or goverment that is working to document, preserve or recreate a public landscape, the gardens around a historic home, a town park, etc. Perhaps a site is under threat of demolition and you need to prove its historical importance in order to help save and protect it.
Tracing the people connected to the site, the features of the site and the evolution of the landscape or garden is what makes up the history of a landscape. By using Down the Garden Path: A Guide for Researching the History of a Garden or Landscape, you will learn the best research strategies to find this information -- whether you are searching in a library or archive, or on the Web.
Sample topics in Down the Garden Path: A Guide for Researching the History of a Garden or Landscape:
Down the Garden Path: A Guide for Researching a Garden or Landscape fills a gap in the literature in its gathering together of such a detailed explanation of source materils and how to conduct different types of research in a very understandable, readable format. As well, sample forms are given to help researchers collect, cite and organize their findings.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Introduction to source materials
Chapter 3: Major groups of source materials
Chapter 4: Library research
Chapter 5: Archival research
Chapter 6: Web research
Chapter 7: Oral history – interviewing
Chapter 8: Importance of citations
Chapter 9: Site inventory
Chapter 10: When to bring in professionals
Chapter 11: Know when to fold ‘em
Chapter 12: Before you write, some considerations
Appendix A: Pulling it all together - The case of Maplelawn, 1817-1994: A landscape history
Appendix B: Selected landscape history search terms
Appendix C: List of major landscape design styles
Appendix D: Selected bibliography for garden and landscape history
Appendix E: Source description report – sample form
Appendix F: Interview release form sample
Appendix G: Interview information form sample
Appendix H: Interview abstract summary sample
Appendix I: Sample of a transcribed, recorded interview
Appendix J: Site inventory – sample form
Photograph caption list
Contact information
104 pages
Size: 8 1/2 in. x 11 in./216mm x 279mm
ISBN: 978-0-9692100-1-6
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When you buy Down the Garden Path: A Guide for Researching the History of a Garden or Landscape, you will be sent an invitation by e-mail to post a small photo and a short description of your garden or landscape site on my Garden History Research in Motion Web page. Details on photograph specificiations and description word count will be noted in the e-mail. Please note that we reserve the right to reject inappropriate material and to edit submissions.
Edwinna von Baeyer has been researching and writing landscape histories in Canada for over 30 years. Her writing and research experience is wide-ranging and includes books, articles, bibliographies, etc. that focus on landscape history. She has wriiten these materials for organizations and governments. Her books have been published by Random House Canada and Dundurn Press. For her work in landscape history, she received the Ontario Heritage Foundation's prestigious Certificate of Achievement for research and writing on Heritage Gardens.
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Last modified: 12 November 2007
