Each year our park system has a big competition for Park of the Year and other awards. The competition is tough, and gets tougher each year as more time and energy is put into each park and museum’s presentation to the director and managers that make up the selection committee. The award selection meeting is … Continue reading The Work of Parks
A little training is good for the soul…and everything else, too!. Continue reading A little training is good for the soul…and everything else, too!
A little training is good for the soul…and everything else, too! You’ve heard the saying that goes something like: “The only thing constant in the universe is change.” You’ve also heard that “If you are not moving forward (as in changing) you are moving backward.” I’ve just enjoyed a fine winter of training. I have … Continue reading A little training is good for the soul…and everything else, too!
You: The Artist Freeman Tilden in his third principle of interpretation wrote: Interpretation is an art, which combines many arts, whether the materials presented are scientific, historical or architectural. Any art is in some degree teachable. This is one of my favorites of the Tilden principles. Tilden must have thought it pretty important because he … Continue reading You: The artist
Best practices change how you think. It’s natural that each of us believes that the way we select to accomplish something is the best way to accomplish it. If not, we’d choose another method. Among a large group of people several methods may be chosen and each person thinks they have discovered the best method … Continue reading Best practices change how you think.
Stop That Train!. Continue reading Stop That Train!
I am very lucky, privileged, to have been able to attend a goodly number of workshops and conferences. That may be because my bosses realize that I need all the help I can get. Or perhaps they realize that in such a creative and changing field as interpretation, exposure to the latest and greatest ideas … Continue reading Stop That Train!
Eulerian Circles and the rainforest? – Go figure!. Continue reading Eulerian Circles and the rainforest? – Go figure!
Of course you want to keep your main thing the main thing. But the rainforest is a hot topic, and every school child studies the amazing resources, especially wildlife, of the rainforest. How can you include the rainforest in interpretation of your site? (There are lots of questions to answer before you get here, like … Continue reading Eulerian Circles and the rainforest? – Go figure!
This time of year is filled with hope for a New Year that is better than the last. I know there are several improvements I’d like to see, beginning with a radical shift in the dark cloud that has seemed to hang over my head. The turn of the year symbolizes a new life, a … Continue reading Keeping the main thing the main thing in the new year
Interpretive Communications 