To celebrate the anniversary of that occasion, and to follow up on my blog post on the NPS Centennial a year ago, I present in this post a photo essay of pictures I have from visits to national parks and various other NPS sites, with the date of the visit and links to the NPS site's webpage. Most photos were taken by Mom or Dad and were from family photo albums, and then beginning with the M.L. King birth home are photos from my own digital camera collections. I start with Glacier National Park, where I visited with my family on our "train-cation" 20 years ago this month.
Glacier National Park, at one of its many lakes, sometime around August 4-10, 1997:
Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Springfield, IL, sometime in the summer of 1998, with this picture from July 29, 2005, when we walked by it:
On the summit of Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, late July 2000:
From my personal collection of photos, here I am standing in the outline of the birth house of George Washington, George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Colonial Beach, VA, July 26, 2003:
Our family foursome posing in a photo taken by a fellow visitor at the stone marker of the end of the first, 12 second-long flight made on December 17, 1903, at Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, NC, July 28, 2003:
By Bodie Island Light Station at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, July 28, 2003:
At the Memorial Building housing a replica of the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park, near Hodgenville, KY, July 31, 2006:
In the vicinity of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, July 3, 2007:
Sitting on a log after wading across the width of the Colorado River in Rocky Mountain National Park, August 12, 2008--on one of three trips that have taken me to that park:
At the Jamestown Fort in Colonial National Historical Park, July 19, 2009:
Donning a coonskin cap and wading around in the Oconaluftee River in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, near the entrance by the Cherokee Reservation, NC, May 27, 2010:
On the National Mall, an urban park, Washington, D.C., July 26, 2011:
At Porter Beach, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana, October 30, 2012:
 |
| This photo was taken by my colleague-in-meteorology Collette. A group of us meteorology students went to the Lake Michigan shore to feel the strong winds caused by the sprawling Sandy weather system, blowing as fast as 40 mph. |
The home where Martin Luther King, Jr., was born, at Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, Atlanta, GA, February 3, 2014:
Near the north entrance of Independence Hall, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA, June 11, 2016, taken by a fellow visitor:
Outside Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, the smallest NPS site, Philadelphia, PA, June 12, 2016, taken by a passerby:
Castillo San Marcos National Monument, St. Augustine, FL, January 16, 2017:
Frederick Douglass's home at Cedar Hill, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Anacostia neighborhood, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2017:
Fort Sumter National Monument, Charleston, SC, May 11, 2017, taken by a fellow tourist:
No comments:
Post a Comment