'Scenic Pleasant Valley' tourism brochure   Save
Friends of the Land Collection
Description: Tourism pamphlet for Pleasant Valley in Richland County, Ohio, featuring Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm. The pamphlet attests to Malabar and Bromfield's widespread celebrity in the 1940s and 1950s, and celebrates the Richland County Valley made famous by Bromfield in memoirs like Pleasant Valley (1945), Malabar Farm (1948), Out of the Earth (1950) and From my Experience (1955). The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS364_B13F12_03_01
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Malabar Farm; Tourism; Literary Ohio;
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)