Genius of Place

Fredrick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park, took a circuitous path to fame, but there wasn’t always fortune.

Fredrick Law Olmsted was an inspired landscape architect, famous for spaces like Central Park. But his path to greatness was winding. Steve Curwood visits one of Olmsted’s jewels, Boston’s Emerald Necklace, with Justin Martin, author of “Genius of Place: The Life of Fredrick Law Olmsted.”