by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
Herewith three wilderness-related stories occasioned by three weeks I spent during fall, 2011, at Acadia National Park in Maine — examples of some of my own reflections on life close to the wilderness. 1. On the Edge of a “Northeaster” — I was...
by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
Even as we have “tamed” the wilderness, we SEEK new ways of experiencing danger outside. In our Nash reading this week, we learned about Joseph Knowles who ventured naked and alone into the wilderness in Maine to show that risk and hardiness were still...
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 bill-youngs | Oct 8, 2018 | Fireside Talks, National Park
Click here to see the full talk: https://www.americanrealities.com/home-page/central-park-and-yosemite-park-the-olmsted-connection
by bill-youngs | Nov 28, 2012 | Fireside Talks, National Park
Click here to see the full talk: https://www.americanrealities.com/visiting-barron-gorge-national-park-by-railway-and-cableway.html
