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FIFTH CLEARING LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE

Sinceits meeting initial in 1990, the biennial Clearing Landscape Institute has been an important vehicle in perpetuating the intellectual ideals of JensJensen, whose home and school on the shore of Green Bay provide its setting. After uncertainty over its future followingJensen’s death in 1951, The Clearing has rebounded and now thrives as a setting for adult education in arts, crafts, and the humanities. It also serves as a continual source of enrichment for students of the Midwest landscape. Every two years, a long weekend is set aside for an intimate gathering of landscape scholars and practitioners who come together amidst council rings and rustic stone and log architecture to perpetuate Jensen’s "school of the soil" and refine their relationship with the land. Once again, the Institute was sponsored by The Clearing Board of Directors and the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was ably administered by Clearing resident managers, Don and Louise Buchholz, and University of Wisconsin professor and Door County native, William Tishler. Landscape Forms, the manufacturer of exterior furniture, generously provided scholarships for seven student participants representing landscape architecture programs across the Midwest. In keeping with previous conferences, this fifth Institute took full advantage of the physical environment of The Clearing and surrounding Door County. Today, The Clearing is increasingly viewed as a stable presence in a rapidly changing landscape, one where cherry orchards vanish to be replaced by condo~niniums and out-of-scale vacation homes. While not the explicit focus of the Institute, these changes in Door County did provide its background, thanks to the keynote speaker, local author and anti-development crusader, Norbert Blei. Blei, a long-time instructor of creative writing at The Clearing, praisedJensen’s conservation ethic as a perspective needed more than ever as Door County absorbs an increasing number of wealthy part-timers who do little to sustain area traditions. Blei’s most revealing statement was the admission that he is considering leaving Door County, due, in part, to his awareness that after thirty years of residence and writing about the local scene he still considers himself an outsider. His view is a testament to the strength of an indigenous lifestyle drawn from working the land and the water, and to his belief that decades of careful observation do not necessarily grant one full entrance. Thirteen paper presentations were scheduled over two days, with the afternoons set aside for visits to Door County’s enviable collection of public shorelines, the protection of which is part of Jensen’s local legacy. Jensen himself was, directly or indirectly, the subject of five presentations during the first day. Independent scholar John K. Notz,Jr. offered a thoughtful review of a little-known phase of Jensen’s career, his early residential work in Chicago and Wisconsin’s Lake Geneva for wealthy German-American clients. This phase of his career, between 1900 and 1906, coincided with the years of Jensen’s professional separation from Chicago’s West Parks District. Jensen’s message to modern practitioners was articulated in separate presentations by Mike Cooper and Kent Massie. Cooper, a planner for the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, described that city’s renovation of the public park which incorporates the scenic Falls of the Big Sioux River. Native plants and crafted stonework comprise a design that Jensen himself would admire. A more direct connection toJensen’s work was made by Massie, a principal with Massie, Massie and Associates in Springfield, Illinois, who linked the insights gained through his firm’s ongoing restoration and expansion planning forJensen’s Lincoln Memorial Gardens to the planning of a 200acre residential development near Petersburg, Illinois. Virginia Russell of the University of Cincinnati explored another part of Jensen’s legacy in her revealing and well-researched study of the spirited correspondence between Jensen and Frank Lloyd Wright from 1912 to 1943. These exchanges were often concerned with their mutual cynicism over higher education and their dreams of starting their own schools (which both eventually did). The letters were also enlivened by their contrasting personalities. Wright’s frequent complaints about his personal situation were answered byJensen "with gentle and modest admonitions," according to Russell. Russell’s paper neatly complemented the earlier presentation by this reviewer, who offered thoughts on the ~vritings of Jensen, Wright, and their Prairie School disciple, the late Alfred Caldwell, and how these writings reflected design philosophies shared among the three and similar characteristic attributes of their constructed work. The second day’s presentations addressed different facets of the midwestern cultural landscape. Barbara Geiger offered a concise account of that regional icon, the windmill, including its conceptual transformation from the heavy architecture of the foreign model into the minimalist pinwheel-and-metal structures familiar to so many. Stephen Goltry presented the results of his quantitative study on the factors motivating landowners to make land and easement donations to land trusts. His conclusion that donations reflect a blending of altruistic and egoistic motives may assist land trusts and other conservation groups in developing donor profiles to direct future efforts.