Archive for September, 2019
Wouldn’t you know it – not only did I arrive just an hour or so before the Saratoga National Historical Park closed but I had to battle a persistent rainstorm. Despite those obstacles staring (and hitting) me in the face, I made my way around the Revolutionary War battlefield site and saw pretty much all […]
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Bird Photos
I started this blog with the intent to focus on my favorite photos I’ve taken of animals in our national parks. But as I started to make my selections I ran across more photos of birds than I thought I had so, two blogs for the price of one. I can categorize bird photography into […]
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Over the past several years I have read several books about Theodore Roosevelt. From David McCullough’s “Mornings on Horseback” to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Bully Pulpit” and “The River of Doubt” by Candice Millard, each tells a specific story about one of our greatest presidents. So I know a little bit about Roosevelt, his family […]
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Before I started planning the content for this blog, I would have said that the national park sites that focus on our nation’s Industry Age would not have been among my favorites. But then I started jotting down things I liked about these sites and I was surprised – surprised at how much I really […]
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The Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site outside of San Francisco may be the most unique site within the National Park Service. Consider these items… Of the 419 current sites, it’s the only one dedicated to a playwright. O’Neill won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for such acclaimed plays as The Iceman Cometh, Long […]
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Favorite Re-enactors Photos
Anytime I go to a national historic site and see someone dressed up from the time period depicted, I know this is going to be a worthwhile trip. Not just because the photos are better, but also because the re-enactors for the most part really know their stuff. Their interaction with park visitors and themselves […]
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Gateway National Recreation Area
Just outside of New York City lies the Gateway National Recreation Area, a National Park Service site consisting of three separate units. And because it is on the outskirts of the city, I had only visited one of the units previously and that was 30 years ago. So I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to […]
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A few years ago it just about killed me to drive by the turnoff to the Thomas Edison National Historical Park without taking the exit. But Katie and I were running a little late to meet a Disney friend of hers in Newark, N.J. After all, I thought, I travel to New York frequently. I […]
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