• Archetypes

    Archetypes

    The situation was perplexing. I had anticipated a mob-scene, but there were perhaps a dozen people standing in groups of two or three, chatting in low voices.
  • Birds of a Feather: Creating a Unique Experience Along the Kansas Wetlands and Wildlife National Scenic Byway

    Birds of a Feather: Creating a Unique Experience Along the Kansas Wetlands and Wildlife National Scenic Byway

    With those first rays of sunlight comes a thundering, primeval sound—deafening, glorious, and almost terrifying as islands made up of thousands of sandhill cranes, geese, and ducks suddenly dissolve in...
  • Gadgets

    Gadgets

    These tools are not just a new way for interpreters to talk to the public. Social media is a new way to listen. Interpreters try to influence the way visitors...
  • Developing a Sense of Place in Non-Traditional Spaces

    Developing a Sense of Place in Non-Traditional Spaces

    In today’s atmosphere of broken connections with nature, it has become critical for park districts to create those connections for visitors they serve.
  • Sugar and Salt

    Sugar and Salt

    “Can I use this sugar?” I looked up from playing with my son as my mother-in-law poked her head through the dark, wood-framed doorway to the kitchen in my 1925-vintage...
  • Why Tourism Needs the Public

    Why Tourism Needs the Public

    I often say civic tourism begins with the story of your place. Of course, more than a few other travel and tourism programs say something similar, among them cultural tourism,...
  • The NAI Community

    The NAI Community

    The front cover of Legacy includes the slogan, “The magazine of the National Association for Interpretation.” It’s sometimes too easy for me, sitting at my desk at our national headquarters...
  • Your Notes Add to Your Credibility

    Your Notes Add to Your Credibility

    Imagine trying to read a book while driving. Every time you look from the road to the page, you can’t find your place. Your eyes dart back and forth while...
  • Living History as Practiced at Minute Man National Historical Park

    Living History as Practiced at Minute Man National Historical Park

    by Roger Fuller, Jim Hollister, and Mike Ryan Living history is an important part of the mission of Minute Man National Historical Park (NHP) in Concord, Massachusetts, to bring to life...