This history of rail trails highlights the increasingly fractious relationship among urban constituencies and sheds light on the meaning of recreational trails as spaces of potential conflict between groups of walkers, landowners, policymakers, and residents.
MHS Calendar of Events
13 November 2012
Seminars are free and open to the public; RSVP required.
Subscribe to received advance copies of the seminar papers. Environmental History Seminar
Subscribe to received advance copies of the seminar papers. Environmental History Seminar
“Many Bulldozers are Drooling”: The Urban Origins of Rail Trails
5:15 PM - 7:30 PM
Silas Chamberlin, Lehigh University
Comment: Julia O’Brien, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation