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  Kent has published articles in well-known trade magazines such as Landscape Architecture and Garden Design. In 1996, with Gordon W. Chappell, he co-authored a best-selling book entitled, The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg; now in its fourth printing. The book won a 1997 Virginia ASLA Chapter Honor Award for “Excellence in Landscape Research and Communications.” These biennial awards are given to the project which represents “...the most outstanding advancement within the profession of landscape architecture in Virginia.” Kent is also published in the book, “Breaking Ground: Examining the Vision and Practice of Landscape Restoration,” The Proceedings of the 11th (1997) Conference on Restoring Southern Gardens and Landscapes (1999).

Brinkley recently completed a major research study/report for the Colonial National Historical Park, National Park Service, in Yorktown, VA: The Green Spring Plantation Greenhouse/Orangery and the Probable Evolution of the Domestic Area Landscape (2004). He has also served as a consultant on advisory boards to a number of well-known historic house museum sites, including Mount Vernon, Gunston Hall, Tryon Palace, Tudor Place, Dumbarton Oaks, and Jefferson’s Poplar Forest.


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