Current Reads: Imagining Childhood, A Clearing in the Distance, and The Great Northwest

http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300101317

"The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. "

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/rybczynski-clearing.html

http://www.witoldrybczynski.com/

http://www.theolmstedlegacy.com/interviews/#2

http://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/great-northwest

"Knowing what we think about our place and our region offers opportunities to understand ourselves our communities, and our relationships to the larger world.