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Stearns' 2011 Freeman Tilden Award honors Good Neighbors, Collaboration, and Innovation We are pleased to announce that Education Specialist Liza Stearns has received the prestigious 2011 National Freeman Tilden Award for outstanding contributions by an NPS employee to educating the public. Read more(pdf link) about the award and the Good Neighbors education program, which NPS Director John Jarvis called "a great example of place-based learning opportunities available in national parks." Watch a documentary video that follows third grade students as they participate in the Good Neighbors program. Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site has been buzzing with an array of activities related to the major preservation construction project at the park, as well as the usual operations of the site. Our news page currently includes information on the expansion of tours at Fairsted and the recognition of the Good Neighbors: Landscape Design and Community Building education program by the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. Check back for upcoming features on the site's official reopening in 2012, upcoming programs for the public, as well as ongoing effort to grow a replacement for the Olmsted Elm. 
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS) is reopening on Sundays to offer guided tours of the historic Olmsted design office and grounds beginning September 11, 2011. National Park Service rangers are offering tours at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 3:00 pm by advance reservation. They are continuing to offer Monday, Wednesday, and Friday tours at 9:00 am, 11:00 am, and 2:00 pm, also by advance reservation. These tours are free and open to the public. Visitor hours are expanding as the site enters the final phase of its preservation construction project. 
Good Neighbors Earns the Award of Excellence from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects On Thursday, April 28, staff from Brookline's Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and partners were recognized by the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) for their innovative new Education program, Good Neighbors: Landscape Design and Community Building. One of 23 winning projects selected through juried review, Good Neighbors received the prestigious Award of Excellence reserved for a single entry representing an outstanding contribution to the profession of landscape architecture.
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Did You Know?
Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape design for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was a model for Disney’s Experimental Prototype of the Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT).