Thanks to the popularity of Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s landmark documentary film The National Parks, America’s Best Idea presently being broadcast on PBS, the writings of John Muir have been selling at an astonishing pace.
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Photo Interlude: Montezuma Castle
In honor of the debut of Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s The National Parks, America’s Best Idea on PBS, a couple images of one of the many places we still have thanks to such a system of preservation being in place. Montezuma Castle National Monument, near Camp Verde, Arizona; one of the four sites that […]
Television Worth Watching
For the most part, I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments so eloquently expressed by the late, great Newton Minow in his classic speech delivered 9 May 1961 to the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, DC in which he declared the programming on American television to be a “vast wasteland.” Since Mr. Minow’s 1961 address, […]
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