by bill-youngs | May 8, 2024 | Fireside Talks
A Perilous Day on Long’s Peak in Colorado, 1962 Once upon a time I was a college student, like all of you. And like you, I felt an urge to wander and explore. After finishing my junior year at Harvard I set out on my motor scooter for what turned out to be an...
by bill-youngs | Nov 7, 2023 | Fireside Talks
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by Brian O'Riley | Nov 7, 2023 | Fireside Talks
(Note I visited the Opal Creek Wilderness region on the weekend of December 1-3, 2017, and wrote this talk during the following week.) I am calling this final Fireside Talk “Return to Opal Creek” even though I had never even been to Opal Creek until the...
by bill-youngs | Nov 2, 2023 | Fireside Talks
As we venture more deeply into the wilderness in literature, film, and philosophy we are learning a kind of language, composed of stories and concepts. Along the way we are discovering a “conversation” that uses the terms of that language. Our study of the...
by bill-youngs | Nov 2, 2023 | Fireside Talks
JHCGA Climate Change and National Security While I was in Jackson Hole in 2018, I attended a forum on climate change sponsored by the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs. The forum focused on “Climate Solutions, Coal Communities, and Economic...
by Brian O'Riley | Nov 2, 2023 | Fireside Talks
John Muir, Biographical Sketch Source: American Realities HISTORICAL EPISODES FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO THE PRESENT VOLUME 2 J. William T. Youngs New York, Longman, 2011 In the essay below, we will review the life of America’s foremost park advocate. SUMMARY: Like...
