This is my last official blog post of my 13-week internship with the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation and Latino Heritage Internship Program. I have been an intern of the National Park Service, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, Hispanic Access Foundation, and Latino Heritage Internship...
Welcome back for my 11th blog post of the summer! It has been another busy week at the OCLP, so I have a lot to catch you up on. As I mentioned last blog post, due to my LHIP Colorado conference and the NPS Centennial,...
I’m back! I was in Colorado for a little bit with the Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) Conference, and I’ve returned to the Boston office now due to a three-week extension I received through the awesome partnership of the Hispanic Access Foundation and Olmsted Center...
Welcome back for my ninth blog post of the Designing The Parks summer! This upcoming week I will be traveling to Colorado for the Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) conference with all the other Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) interns across the country, so I will...
As promised in my last blog post, I am going to use this blog post to talk more extensively about our Latino Conservation Week experiences at Northeastern University. Latino Conservation Week was this past week, from July 16th-24th, and the goal of the entire week...
This week has been focused on writing and research for the Existing Conditions report. This report features information on a variety of characteristics written up by Ella, Jenna, Angelina, and myself based on our site visits to the eleven residential properties in Cape Cod during...
Welcome back for the sixth week of my Designing The Parks blog! There's been lots going on at the OCLP, and I'm here to share my take on it with you all. The Existing Conditions report is getting more complete with each passing day. This is...
Happy to report that I just received my ID card and NPS email, so I’m super pumped to be officially part of the team here at the OCLP for the summer! This week has been filled with working on the CACO project and site visits,...
It’s the first day of July, and it’s been just about one month since I started at the OCLP. Wow, has time flown by, and it seems like it has very little intention of slowing down. This week I’ve been hitting the pedal to the...
Back at it again with the third blog post of the summer! If you haven’t already done so, please read up here and here on President Obama’s visit to Yosemite National Park, in which he expresses the importance of conservation and preservation as related to...
This past week we visited Cape Cod to carry out our research and mapping of the eleven different sites for our mid-century modern residential project. The eleven sites are located in Eastham and Wellfleet, Massachusetts, so we spread out our visits to the houses over...
Hi, my name is Julián Huertas, and I am the Designing the Parks intern through the Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) at the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (OCLP) in Boston, Massachusetts. I graduated from Bowdoin College two weeks ago, and I am stoked for this summer...