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CYNTHIA B. O’CONNELL, ASLA
THE CULMINATION OF MY EVOLUTION

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fter earning my bachelors in Fine Arts, I moved
to Boston and found a job in the Harvard library
system. No money, but lots of perks, like being able to
take courses for credit. My introduction to landscape
architecture was through a course taught by J. B.
Jackson at Harvard College. The title of the course
was “Studies of the Man-Made Environment
of the United States from 1783 to the Present.” I
found it completely fascinating. I subsequently
enrolled in the graduate pro ܘ[H]H[