MILIEU

Natural CALLING

When Elizabeth Barlow Rogers walks to the windows of her New York apartment, she takes in the full panorama of Central Park. What she sees from her vantage point is an 843-acre work of art, more so even than a natural creation. She points to distant rocky outcroppings and speaks of their sculpted quality, the patinas and sheens of their schist. Noting undulating landscapes at the park’s center, she refers to them as “romantically picturesque.”

“People think I’m

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