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Rocky Mountain National Park

Stories of the Moon & Stars at Moraine Park Discovery Center
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Acadia National Park

Flying Mountain Trailhead
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The Flying Mountain Trailhead is located north of Southwest Harbor, ME off State Route 102 via Fernald Point Road. It directly serves Flying Mountain and Valley Cove Trails with connections to Valley Peak Trail and Saint Sauveur Mountain Trail.

2021 Estuarine Nutrient Enrichment Status Report: Cape Cod NS
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Cape Cod is a large glacial moraine peninsula that extends 96.5 km into the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Massachusetts. Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) is located on the outer portion of Cape Cod. Almost all the estuarine habitat at CACO is associated with two large coastal lagoon systems, Pleasant Bay (PB) and Nauset Harbor/Marsh (NH). Due to restricted flushing with the ocean and residential development pressures outside the seashore boundary...

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Park Store and Information
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The Visitor Center/Park Store is open Thursday - Sunday (4 days per week) from 10am to 4pm, inside the Sandburg Home. The online park store is open everyday! The Park Store and visitor information area is a great place to start your visit! You can find information to plan your visit, get a passport stamp, participate in the Jr Ranger or BARK Ranger programs, and get a schedule of upcoming events. The park store has a wide range of Sandburg books, media, and other items.

Aimee Semple McPherson
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Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson was an evangelist, radio broadcaster, and public speaker. She innovated new ways to deliver religious messages through mass media.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Wayside: Loon Lake's Glacial Past
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Rocky Mountain National Park

Let Me Count the Ways: How Citizen Scientists Helped a Park Measure Visitor Impacts
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Wildly popular Rocky Mountain National Park wanted to assess the extent of resource damage from all that love. It needed the help of some ardent supporters.

Gender and Sexuality in Native America: Pueblo of Acoma, NM
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In what is now the mesa-top Pueblo of Acoma, men with effeminate physical attributes or personal tendencies were known by many names including mujerado, qo-qoy-mo, and kokwina. They dressed and lived as women, had relationships with men, and fulfilled women's roles in the community. Much like today's queer culture, mujerados of Acoma appear to have experienced varied levels of cultural acceptance.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Charles Bent
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Charles Bent, alongside his partner, Ceran St. Vrain, and younger brother, William Bent, established the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company along the Santa Fe Trail in 1833. This adobe-constructed trading post beside the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado was the first outpost between St. Louis, MO and Santa Fe, NM in its day. Charles and William's close association with Cheyenne and Arapaho nations enabled the company to prosper as a result of the buffalo robe trade.

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

The Little Rock Nine
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In 1957, nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name “Little Rock Nine" to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park

David Higgins
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David Higgins, 2018 Artist-in-Residence at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, explored storytelling through puppetry and digital media. Embracing experimentation, he created art inspired by the park’s history, its Maker Space, and community collaboration.

Thomas Stone National Historic Site

Riddle Me This
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In the 18th-century, riddles were seen as both entertainment and as a way of proving that you were smart. Thomas Stone, as a lawyer trained in studying clues and facts, probably could have solved the following animals riddles. Can you?

Site of Thomas Aves Home
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When Thomas Aves's daughter came from New Orleans to visit him at his residence at 21 Pinckney Street, she brought an enslaved girl named Med. Med became the center of a 1836 court case that ruled in favor of freeing enslaved people brought to a free state.

Independence National Historical Park

"Forget Me Not" Poem, Philadelphia 1834
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This is a page from Amy Matilda Cassey's friendship album most likely written by either Margaretta or Mary Forten, daughters of James Forten. This page has a drawing of a forget-me-not flower, the subject of the poem, along with a poem.

Acadia National Park

Nathan Allard
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Nathan Allard, of Somerville, ME, is participating as a Visual Artist from Maine in the Artist-in-Residence program at Acadia National Park in 2025.

Grand Teton National Park

Teewinot Overlook
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At Teewinot Overlook, gaze across Jenny Lake and admire a landscape shaped by glaciers.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

Acknowledgements and Resources
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Spending three weeks as an Artist-In-Residence living, hiking, and writing in Valles Caldera was an incredible gift. The writing I’ve included here is just the beginning, there are so many more stories to write and tell. I hope to return and to continue. But for now, I’d like to thank all the staff who did so much to make me feel at home.

Valles Caldera National Preserve

"Benediction" by Melissa Fu
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I’ve had the extended, focused time in the mountains I have missed and dreamed of for years. But the time has also shown me who I am away from the mountains. I am of the mountains but not always in them. Like obsidian from Cerro del Medio, I bear the fingerprint of the Jemez in all that I do. But, like the much of the obsidian, I, too, have travelled far from my point of origin.

Series: Waterloo, Iowa, WWII Heritage City Lessons
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This series of lessons develop an understanding of the significance of Waterloo, Iowa, an American World War II Heritage City. Highlights include defense industries and the increased opportunities for women during wartime. One lesson explores the home front impacts of the service and sacrifice of the local Sullivan brothers. The lessons connect to larger themes of the U.S. home front during wartime. A mix of primary and secondary sources are used, along with photos and media.

(H)our History Lesson: Waterloo, Iowa: Comparing and Connecting WWII Home Front Cities
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This lesson is part of a series teaching about the World War II home front, with Waterloo, Iowa designated as an American WWII Heritage City. The lesson contains photographs, readings, an optional review text and media activity, and a culminating mastery project. The culminating project contributes to learners’ understandings of the city as a WWII Heritage City, with the opportunity to combine themes from the three other lessons in the Waterloo, Iowa lesson collection.