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KENNETH HELPHAND TO LECTURE ABOUT DEFIANT GARDENS: MAKING GARDENS IN WARTIME
January 10, 2007 – Set against the harshness and ugliness of war, a garden can bring both beauty and hope. Author and professor Kenneth Helphand writes about such defiant gardens – gardens created in extreme political, economic, or cultural conditions – and their impact on society in Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime. Helphand will speak on the subject of defiant gardens at a public lecture and book signing Thursday, February 1, 3-5pm in Tangeman University Center, 400B, University of Cincinnati.
Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime examines wartime gardens throughout the 20th century, including gardens created by World War I soldiers in trenches, gardens found in the Warsaw and other ghettos of World War II, up to gardens grown during the Gulf Wars. Helphand writes of why people continue to grow gardens during difficult times and under dire conditions.
Sponsored by the Lloyd Library and Museum and the Friends of University Libraries, the February 1 talk is free and open to the public. Copies of Defiant Gardens will be available for purchase and signing at the February 1 event. Directions and parking information for Tangeman University Center are available on the Web at www.uc.edu/visitors or at www.uc.edu/parking/visit.htm.
Kenneth Helphand is the author of Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape, Dream Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel, and Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space (coauthored by Cynthia Girling). He is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon in Eugene. More information on Kenneth Helphand and Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime is available online at http://kennethhelphand.com/.
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