by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
During the past several weeks we have considered the wilderness, as did the early pioneers as a fearsome place in inhabited by fearsome creatures. Usually these have been large animals, such as the bear that attacked Hugh Glass and haunted the dreams of Bill Bryson....
by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
My Encounter with a Grizzly Bear Grizzly bears were not always as scary as they are today. I know because in 1962 one lumbered through a Yellowstone campground and ambled right across my sleeping bag – and I am here to tell about it. Now admittedly I was not in the...
by bill-youngs | Nov 21, 2022 | Fireside Talks, National Park
(Original post: 2016) This post is based on a visit I made several years ago to Peaks District National Park in England. As I wrote this I was at a hotel in Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. I mentioned this to underscore the worldwide character of the national park...
by bill-youngs | Nov 5, 2022 | Fireside Talks
Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it. (Fall 1918) This simple phrase, uttered by Theodore Roosevelt beside the Grand Canyon in 1904, has been a loadstone for our class, a constant reference point...
by bill-youngs | Oct 5, 2018 | Fireside Talks
Click here to see the full talk: https://www.americanrealities.com/home-page/blake-island-a-hive-of-wasps-and-a-special-deer
