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Palisades : The People's Park by Robert O Binnewies; Joshua Laird; Barnabas McHenry is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**How the famous and not-so-famous like-minded citizens all gave their time, expertise, and money to build a park legacy of incomparable benefit** The Palisades park and historic site system in New York and New Jersey is a significant anchor-point for the spread of national and state parks across the nation. The challenge to protect these treasures began with a brutal blast of dynamite in the late nineteenth century and continues to this day. __Palisades: The People’s Park__ presents the story of getting from zero protected acres to the rich tapestry that is today’s Palisades park system, located in the nation’s most densely populated metropolitan region. This is an account of huge determination, moments of crisis, caustic resistance to the very idea of conservation, glorious philanthropy, a steep learning curve, and responsibilities for guardianship passed with care from one generation to the next. Despite the involvement of men of great wealth and fame from its earliest beginnings, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission faced an early and ongoing struggle to arrange financial support from both the New York and New Jersey state governments for a park that would cross state lines

Who reads Palisades : The People's Park?

Author

Robert O Binnewies; Joshua Laird; Barnabas McHenry

Publisher

Fordham University Press and Palisades Interstate Park Commission

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823293711

Category

nonfiction