Podcast: tourism in the early national parks
Tourism in the Early National Parks. With Nicolle Southwick and Josh Van Veldhuizen
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Essay draft: tourists in the early national parks
When the trail guides Hopum and Lopim led Frank Hutchings over the crest of a hill and within sight of the towering granite formations of Yosemite Valley, Hutchings stopped in his tracks: “as the scene opened in full view before us,” he wrote later, “we were almost speechless with wondering admiration, at its wild and…
GIS Resource on National Parks
Here’s a great resource on U.S. national parks: shapefiles for park boundaries. Grab the .zip file if you want to work with the file in your own GIS environment. Image above: a quick overlay of the file over OCM landscape. Hop to it: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/national-park-boundariesf0a4c
Invasion of the pod(cast) people
I enjoyed the first season of the Serial podcast. It brought in a lot of important topics, from islamophobia to the frailties in our justice system. But a journalist friend of mine clued me in to the idea that Serial is, at heart, a show about journalism: it’s a reporter’s winding, uncertain route through a…
The fair use mixtape: copyright and electronic media
Online publishing has pushed though a whole forest of weird snares, and one of the most persistent has been copyright. From Google Books to Napster to academic publishing, the legalities of intellectual property have slowed fast-rushing online initiatives to a crawl. Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig call copyright “an ever-evolving set of principles” that must…
Visualizing past and present
Laura Bliss’ “The modern beauty of 19th-century data visualizations” demonstrates that our ideas about visualization aren’t new. For all a flashy venn diagram might impress us, most of our methods for putting data into charts are at least a century old. I remember reading Susan Schulten’s book Mapping the Nation last year, and realizing that…
More sources and more searching: alternatives to the card catalog
I’m part of a class project to create some new interpretive material for Fort Spokane and other sites around Lake Roosevelt. It can be a challenging space to research, because it brings together a lot of topics that don’t get very careful treatment in the written record: Native Americans children’s lives in the boarding school…
Story draft: Fruitland company irrigation ditch
(Map pin at Daisy, WA, about 15 miles south of Kettle Falls.) In 1908, Kettle Falls had 99 problems, but a ditch wasn’t one. Part of the landscape that lies under lake Roosevelt today is a series of “benchlands,” flat regions separated by steep drops. The volcanic soil is fertile and the nearby Columbia river…
No one here and people everywhere: crowdsourcing
In a 2008 article, John Herbert and Karen Estlund wrote that newspaper digitization was “exploding” 1 As leaders of the Utah Digital Newspapers project, they’re probably the right people to ask. The project was a poster child for digitization and open access for years, snapping up grant funding and positive press. Even if it was…
Squirrels of the Washington frontier
In this snippet, Archie Camp talks about the challenges of farming in the Washington Territory. Listen to the rest of his oral history here. Music: Mariposa by Flavia & the Motonets, licensed under a CC-BY-NC license, and Squirrel Patrol by Phil Reavis, under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
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