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Carol R. Johnson, who founded a pioneering women-led landscape architecture firm, dies at 91


Carol R. Johnson, who founded a pioneering women-led landscape architecture firm, dies at 91
Bryan Marquard
© RYAN, David L Globe Staff
Ms. Johnson, in her garden in Cambridge.
While working on what would become one of her favorite landscape architecture projects, John F. Kennedy Park in Cambridge, Carol R. Johnson faced a challenge. The late president’s family wanted her to incorporate excerpts from his speeches into the design.
One day while hiking along the Flume Gorge in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch, Ms. Johnson realized that if words were inscribed on boulders under the cascading sheets of water, she could easily read them. She didn’t anticipate, however, that by placing Kennedy’s words under flowing water in the Cambridge park, she would turn his speeches into an interactive experience. ....

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