The soap opera began hundreds of years before Edith wrote her letter to the Turkish Ambassador, yet the aristocratic way of life that evolved at places like Downton Abbey was nearly ruined by the time we meet the Crawleys in 1912. How did a few families come to own so much English property? Why do places like Downton Abbey look the way they do? Learn about the landscape designers, land ownership patterns, and inheritance laws that produced great estates like Downton and why radical changes were inevitable. Landscape historian Barbara Geiger will guide us in a stunning multimedia presentation of the beauty and pageantry of a bygone era.