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Interpreting the Spirit of Place
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsThe International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) encourages the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places around the world. At its latest General Assembly and Scientific Symposium on “Finding the Spirit of Place,” ICOMOS aimed to find a better definition of the spirit of place. -
Exposing the Soul: An Unexpected Encounter with Community-Based Interpretation
Posted on February 11, 2010 | 3 CommentsFour statues in a park forever changed my life. Statues are everywhere. In cities around the world, public squares and buildings are filled with monumental sculptures honoring individuals or representing historic moments. How many times do we walk right past, paying them little or no attention? -
Birds of a Feather: Creating a Unique Experience Along the Kansas Wetlands and Wildlife National Scenic Byway
Posted on February 1, 2010 | No CommentsWith 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 a flutter of wings. -
Developing a Sense of Place in Non-Traditional Spaces
Posted on January 19, 2010 | 1 CommentIn today’s atmosphere of broken connections with nature, it has become critical for park districts to create those connections for visitors they serve. -
Why Tourism Needs the Public
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsI 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, heritage tourism, agritourism,ecotourism, geotourism, and a handful of other approaches to place-based hospitality that have recently emerged. -
The NAI Community
Posted on January 1, 2010 | No CommentsThe 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 in Colorado, to lose myself in the everyday details of deadlines, page layout, and editorial responsibilities.