Parkways of the National Capital Region

SAVE THIS DATE
Thursday June 22, 2006
for a
Green Infrastructure Forum
on
Parkways of the National Capital Region

Dear Colleagues,

Timothy Davis, Ph.D., Lead Historian of the Park Historic Structures & Cultural Landscapes Program of the U.S. National Park Service in Washington, DC., will speak on "Parkways of the National Capital Region" at an upcoming Metropolitan Washington, DC Green Infrastructure Forum. The forum will be held at The Lyceum at 201 South Washington Street, Alexandria, VA. on Thursday June 22, 2006 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

Tim's writing on the American cultural landscape has appeared in many books and periodicals including Highways in Harmony and America's Parkways and Park Roads: Drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record. He will discuss the history of George Washington Memorial Parkway, Rock Creek & Potomac Parkway, Baltimore-Washington Parkway and their role in the development of the National Capital Region.

Attached are the websites about the Highways in Harmony publications for George Washington Memorial Parkway and Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hih/index.htm

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hih/rock_creek_potomac/index.htm

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hih/george_washington/index.htm

This forum, which is sponsored by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Community Forestry Network and the Greater Washington National Parks of the National Park Service (NPS), is one of a series of Green Infrastructure Forums and Workshops designed to discuss park, forest cover, open space and recreation land management approaches within the metropolitan Washington region. The Agenda for this forum will be as follows:

A brief status report on the "Metropolitan Washington Green Infrastructure Project"
Remarks by Timothy Davis on the “Parkways of the National Capital Region”.
Questions and discussion

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TO ATTEND:

To attend this forum, please respond to this e-mail message at: glenn_eugster@nps.gov or blecouteur@mwcog.org or send a note by telefax to (202) 619-7220 or (202) 962-3203. By telephone call Glenn Eugster at (202) 619-7492 or Brian LeCouteur at (202) 962-3393. Please respond by no later than Monday June 19, 2006.

I hope you can join us.

Glenn

J. Glenn Eugster
Assistant Regional Director,
Partnerships Office
National Park Service
National Capital Region
1100 Ohio Drive, SW, Room 350
Washington, DC 20242
(202)619-7492 phone
(202)619-7220 fax
E-mail: glenn_eugster@nps.gov