“The rejection of the Green Mountain Parkway is embedded in the Green Mountain Club’s 'creation myth…..'
Join the Green Mountain Club Burlington Section's 2016 Taylor Series:
“Three Poems and a Parkway” with historian and author Bruce Post on
Friday March 11th, 2016 7PM, at the Richmond Free Library, 201 Bridge Street, Richmond, VT 05477
Admission $5 for GMC members/$8 for non-members. 12 & under free. Tickets at door.
Proceeds benefit GMC sections and GMC Education Programs.
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"The rejection of the Green Mountain Parkway is embedded in the Green Mountain Club’s “creation myth....” writes GMC History and Archives Committee member Bruce S. Post.
Mr. Post uses poetry and photos, maps and movies to plumb the Parkway myth and ponder the consequences of its 1936 defeat. With the spirit of GMC founder James P. Taylor as a hiking companion, Post will take us on a virtual trek along the proposed Parkway route, examining then and now photos, showing alternate trail locations and uncovering the Club’s little known role in helping plan what could have been one of America’s most visited national parks.
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Read Bruce’s fascinating recent article:
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20160228/OPINION06/160229635/0/SEARCH
“.... On March 3, 1936, Vermont, the self-styled Environmental Oz, did something mind-boggling and tragic: It rejected a national park. In doing so, it acted less like Yosemite’s John Muir and more like the wacky outlaws of today’s West, the Bundy family..... We feared “the Feds” and we feared “the Jews,” for whom there was no room in too many of our inns….”
See you there! Ted Albers, President, GMC - Burlington section
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