Friday Photo: Billions of Stars on View in the Lone Star State
Imagine looking up at the night sky to watch a seasonal meteor shower at your favorite national park, miles away from the bustle of the city, only to discover as your eyes adjust to the darkness that the stars are almost too faint to see. Light and air pollution have increasingly obscured our view of the sky. The National Park [...]
Millions of Artifacts, Historic Photos, and Important Documents Await Discovery
By Catherine Moore, Cultural Resources Program Manager for NPCA’s Center for Park Research, and Elizabeth Meyers, Information and Outreach Manager for NPCA’s Center for Park Research It’s hard to wrap your head around a number as large as 123 million. Yet this represents the number of items in the museum and archival collections held in trust for us by the National [...]
Learn About ParkScapes Travel: Free Live Chat Next Week
By Ben Sander, Travel & Campaign Coordinator Have you wanted to travel to our national parks? Did you know that NPCA has a ParkScapes travel program? Check out some comments about traveling with NPCA from of our past ParkScapes participants: “Our guides were the best. This was my second trip with them and I hope not my last.” – Mary F. [...]
Fort Donelson: A Big Battle on the War’s Frontier
By Nick Lund, Civil War Associate Today marks the sesquicentennial of the major Civil War battle fought at Fort Donelson in Kentucky and Tennessee. Fort Donelson National Battlefield protects 559 acres surrounding the fort near Dover, Tennessee, including the earthen fort itself, upper and lower batteries, the Dover Hotel (site of Confederate surrender) and two miles of outer earthworks. It also [...]
Friday Photo: Portrait of a Virgin Islands Sugar Plantation Worker
When most people think about traveling to Virgin Islands National Park, they probably conjure up images of snorkeling and relaxing on white-sand beaches. The park has more than beautiful sunning and swimming spots, however; it also contains relics from sugar plantations run for decades with slave labor. Although these workers were freed from slavery in 1859, they were not given anything but their [...]
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