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  • Greetings from Glacier National Park

    My husband, Roger, and I have enjoyed visiting our national parks. It is a great way to develop an appreciation of many forms of beauty. We are grateful for those who have strived to make access to natural wonders an important part of their lives.

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    I'll try to make this short even though it was a magical moment. It was like 30 or 40 years ago and I was sitting at the edge of the Grand Canyon on a beautiful evening after all the tourists had disappeared. I can still see the blood-red sunset on…

  • Greetings from Mount Rainier National Park

    Though I was born, and lived the first 4 years of my life in Southern California (East Los Angeles and then Redondo Beach - in the early 1950's), my whole family took a summer vacation to western Washington state the summer I turned 4 years old. I was still so…

  • Greetings from Coronado National Memorial

    Madera Canyon. .....hiking

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    I remember when I was a kid in the late 40’s/50’s and, I believe it was Chevron or Shell, who gave large (14 × 16/18) colored pictures of all our National Parks. The photo images were both beautiful and engaging, cementing my interest there in forever! The first National Park…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    This happened when I was 5 years old (I'm now 76). We were camped the old fashioned way. My folks slept on cots under a tarp clipped to the drip rail on the car. I slept on the back seat of our '46 Chevy. No sleeping bags, just Army blankets.…

  • Greetings from Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument

    Greetings from Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument! When I moved to the Texas Panhandle from Everglades National Park, I had no idea that for the next fifty years I would be leading tours and giving talks about this wonderful place. About 12,000 years ago, some of the first Native Americans…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    A few years back, I had a charmed 48 hour vacation at Yellowstone in mid-September. I headed into the Park after teaching classes at the college in Powell anticipating some rain and cold given the weather report. It was well into the night when I could finally settle in to…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I grew up in Wyoming and have enjoyed Yellowstone frequently since my first trip in 1950. The bears still roamed the roads and approached cars for handouts. We took my grandmother there when she visited from Texas. A bear came up to her side and opened the little triangle window…

  • Greetings from Weir Farm National Historical Park

    Weir Farm National Historic Site CT – J. Alden Weir (1852-1919), noted American impressionist painter, purchased this farm on Nob Hill in Branchville CT in 1882, for $10 and a painting! It is the only National Park Unit dedicated to American painting. The Visitor Center, homes, studios and farm buildings…

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