by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
Note: I originally wrote this post several years ago — it is still relevant! Hello, Friends, Several years ago I wrote a Fireside Talk from the shores of Walden Pond — the most famous pond in the universe (really!) and the “wilderness” home of...
by Brian O'Riley | Nov 18, 2022 | Fireside Talks
When I first arrived in Wadi Rum several years ago, I had only recently visited several of Utah’s storied national parks: Grand Escalante, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches. Like those places Wadi Rum is a collection of rock formations in a desert. More of...
by Brian O'Riley | Nov 18, 2022 | Fireside Talks
One of the many sub-topics of our National Parks course is the question of defining what constitutes “park friendly” modes of travel in the parks — automobiles, historic trains, gondolas, snowmobiles? In a hike in the national forest bordering the...
by Brian O'Riley | Jul 16, 2022 | Fireside Talks, National Park
Usually my “Talks” in History 498 are based on places I have actually visited and filmed. But this morning a news article about Akagera National Park in Rwanda caught my eye. We will look at the article later but first here is some information about the...
by Brian O'Riley | Dec 8, 2020 | Fireside Talks, National Park
Click here to see the full talk: https://www.americanrealities.com/home-page/reflections-on-graffiti-in-national-parks-and-elsewhere
