Visual Entertainment from Near and Far
Works Progress Administration (WPA) circa 1939
Artist C Don Powell
Between 1935 and 1945 the WPA Federal Art Project printed over two million posters in 35,000 different designs to stir the public’s imagination for education, theater, health, safety, and travel. Due to their fragile nature only two thousand posters have survived. The National Park image shown here is also available in the original poster format from many National Park Bookstores.
Torres del Paine National Park
Region of Magellan and Chilean Antarctica, Chile
July 2006
Dear Noah
Had a 2 hour boat trip on Crater Lake today – a little warm and a long hot walk back from the lake. Tomorrow we go to the cave!
Love, Tim
Historic Park Sticker
During the 1930’s the National Park Service created annual entrance permits for employees and frequent visitors. Peel and stick, or send as a postcard. Collect all twenty-two!
1999
Actually raining at the moment but the mornings have been beautiful. Took a boat ride on St Mary with a naturalist who was very informative. Took a long high walk yesterday – about 8 or 9 miles. Lots of spectacular views with sheer drops! See you soon.
Love, Tim
St Mary Lake and Goose Island with Fusillade Mountain in the background makes of the many spectacular views found in Glacier national Park. Photographer James Blank
2001
Now in Yosemite – beautiful but hot, and too many people and bears.
Love, Tim
The Firefall was produced when cedar bark embers were pushed from the rim of Yosemite Valley. The display was discontinued in 1969 because it attracted hundreds of visitors into Valley meadows nightly, damaging vegetation and causing traffic jams.
1994
Greetings from the South –
We are slowly getting back into the working world. It’s tough! Marg called yesterday to say she’s having a great time in Hawaii. Non-stop as usual.
Thanks so much for taking care of us all in Brainerd. We enjoyed it, just sorry we couldn’t have stayed longer. See you Sunday.
Love, Tom
Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Petrified wood of coniferous trees can be found throughout the park. These ancestors of the present-day sequoia tell of a wetter climate and changing past environment.
July 2007
Hi
Here is a friendly creature that would like to play with you! We have seen a few elk and a bald eagle but not bears. Probably just as well!
Love, Tim
Grizzly Bear. The grizzly is a threatened species within the contiguous 48 states. Omnivorous, they feed on plants, small mammals (mostly rodents), large mammals and carrion. Standing 3 to 3 1/2 feet at the shoulders, the adult male (boar) will weigh 500-1000 pounds while the adult female (sow) will weight 225-550 pounds. The grizzly varies in color from black-brown to straw-yellow and may have light tipped guard hairs that give a frizzled appearance. Breeding occurs from mid-May to mid_July and young cubs, weighing 12-16 ounces, are born in January and February. They emerge from the den with their mother in April and May. Grizzly bears are the most fierce and dangerous of all bears.
Grand Teton is in western Wyoming.
Postcard Buzz 