Proposed by: a member of Millbrook Garden Club, Zone III

Robin Karson, author and publisher, has championed the history of American landscape design for thirty years. While researching her seminal book on landscape architect Fletcher Steele in the late 1980’s, Robin realized how little was known about America’s landscape history beyond a few academic departments. In 1992, she launched the Library of American Landscape History (LALH), a think tank for the sharing of information and a publisher for scholarly works on landscape architecture. Under Robin’s leadership, LALH has published 42 books, becoming the leading publisher of books that advance the study and practice of American landscape architecture. LALH reaches a wider audience through its annual news magazine VIEW, through exhibitions about landscape architecture, and via five documentary films on the LALH website and YouTube. Additionally, it serves as a resource for landscape architecture students. Landscape historian Robin Karson has provided a needed resource for scholars, increased the scholarly literature, and fostered the history of American landscape design as a serious academic discipline.