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Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir Audiobook, by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Play Audiobook Sample

Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir Audiobook

Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir Audiobook, by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Erin Bennett Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780525588948

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

21

Longest Chapter Length:

68:52 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

16 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

27:13 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey of her early life--a middle-class upbringing in Texas; college at Wellesley, marriage, a master's degree in city planning at Yale. And then her move to New York, where she starts a family and, when she finds being a mother and a housewife is not enough, pours herself into the protection and enhancement of the city's green spaces. Interwoven into her own story is a comprehensive history of Central Park: its design and construction as a scenic masterpiece; the alterations of each succeeding era; the addition of numerous facilities for sports and play; and finally, the "anything goes" phase of the 1960s and 70s, which was often fun but nearly destroyed the park. The two narratives continue to entwine as she finds a job in the administration of Central Park, founds the Central Park Conservancy, and transforms both the park and herself--a transformation that has led to the writing of her many books, to travels that have taken her to parks and gardens around the world, and to solidifying the prestige of one of New York's most conspicuous landmarks. Cover photograph: copyright © Annie Leibovitz / Vanity Fair /Trunk Archive

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About Erin Bennett

Erin Bennett is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress who played Carlie Roberts in the BBC radio drama Torchwood: Submission. She can be heard on several video games. Regional theater appearances include the Intiman, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Laguna Playhouse, and the Getty Villa. She trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.