The National Parks: America’s Best Idea

Love this series. Tonight’s program was about Stephen Mather’s entry into the history books, and his achievements including the formation of NPS. Also learned a tidbit about Charles W. Eliot’s role in forming Acadia National Monument (later National Park) on Mt. Desert. (Eliot happened to be the president of Harvard at the time; one of the upper-classman dorms is named after him: Eliot House, hangout for preppies.
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