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By Jess Repanshek - June 9th, 2024
There is so much rich history across the National Park System, from chapters of the Revolutionary War held in parks in the eastern half of the country to stories from the gold rush that stampeded through Alaska during the late 1890s.
This is Kurt Repanshek, your host at The National Parks Traveler. I’ve always been fascinated with history. And when you look at parks in the eastern half of the country, the reservoir is so much deeper than in the western half if only for the reason that more was written down.
Michael Aday has a similar passion for history, and has a great job to soak in it. He is, after all, the archivist or librarian at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Recently he came out with a book, Letters from the Smokies, which is built around 300 years of written down history that’s held in the park’s archives.
0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
0:32 Sieur De Monts - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
1:09 Smokies Life
1:32 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
1:54 NPT Promo
2:10 Episode 278 - Letters from the Smokies
51:15 Shenandoah - Randy Petersen - The Sounds of Shenandoah
51:30 Episode Closing
51:59 Orange Tree Productions
52:30 Splitbeard Productions
52:41 National Parks Traveler footer
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National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 278 | Letters from the Smokies
There is so much rich history across the National Park System, from chapters of the Revolutionary War held in parks in the eastern half of the country to stories from the gold rush that stampeded through Alaska during the late 1890s.
This is Kurt Repanshek, your host at The National Parks Traveler. I’ve always been fascinated with history. And when you look at parks in the eastern half of the country, the reservoir is so much deeper than in the western half if only for the reason that more was written down.
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As much as Editor-in-Chief Kurt Repanshek was looking forward to retiring, listener and reader support has enabled the news organization to continue on with its editorially independent coverage of National Parks and protected areas.
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