The Roots of Heritage Interpretation
These resources document and interpret the evolution of heritage interpretation. Click here to return to the chapter menu.
Video: Pilgrimage to the Past: Discovering Intepretation's Guiding Roots
Travel back in time to meet guides throughout human history and how they evolved into contemporary interpreters. Character presentation by UW-Stevens Point interpreters, Jim Buchholz, Ron Zimmerman, Brenda Lackey, Megan Espe, and Carly Swatek for the 2013 National Association for Interpretation conference in Reno, NV. November 7, 2013.
Online Readings
- The Nature-Study Idea by Liberty Hyde Bailey, 1909 (Google eBook)
- Handbook of Nature-Study for Teachers and Parents by Anna Botsford Comstock, 1918 (Google eBook)
- The Adventures of a Nature Guide by Enos Mills, 1920 (Google eBook)
- Proceedings of the First Park Naturalists' Training Conference, National Park Service, 1929
- Yosemite Nature Notes, Vol. 39-No. 7, 40th Anniversary of the "Nature Guides" program. Articles by Charles Goethe, Loye Miller, and Harold Bryant, 1960
- Interpretation in the National Park Service: A Historical Perspective by Barry Mackintosh, 1986
