Defying captivity –in spades

A garden’s ability to humanize landscape and experience in the dire conditions of wartime and internment is the topic of “Defiant Gardens,” a lecture by author Kenneth Helphand, who recently wrote a book of the same title.

Helphand, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20, in CUE 203, sponsored in part by the Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department.

Hear earlier public radio interviews with the author visit www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5435131 and also www.wpr.org/book/060709a.html.

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