ABOUT THIS EPISODE
If you’ve ever been enthralled by a park ranger’s story during a national historic site guided tour, listened to a docent bring the objects in a museum exhibit to life, watched the excitement on a child’s face as a zoo employee explained the care and feeding of a rare primate, or stopped to read an interpretive sign explaining the natural wonders of a spectacular state park, you have experienced heritage interpretation. This installment in the Think and Drink series will look at this uniquely compelling communicative art form.
Our panelists will explain the role of interpretation in how we experience the people, places, and natural wonders that comprise our shared heritage, the various practices used in the field, and how interpretation is being called to respond to the many roiling cultural, technological and socio-political forces at work in the world today.
Our panelists will be:
Larry Beck, Ph.D., professor in the L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at San Diego State University, former longtime National Park Service employee, author of several articles and books on interpretation including Interpreting Cultural and Natural Heritage: For A Better World, and recipient of the National Association for Interpretation’s Fellow Award, its highest honor.
Kelli English, Chief of Interpretation, Education and Outreach for John Muir National Historic Site, Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, and Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park in the San Francisco, California East Bay area, who holds a BA from Harvard University and an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point and who’s twenty-plus year career with the National Park Service included a stint at Yellowstone!
Don Enright, Ontario, Canada-based freelance interpretive planner, experience advisor, travel writer and award-winning blogger of Canadian travel culture who for nearly 40 years has brought diverse skills and services to the interpretation industry including planning, writing, pre-design, market segmentation and analysis, visitor experience evaluation, content and programs development and professional development and training.
The panel is moderated by Milward Simpson, Wyoming Humanities board member and Executive Director of the National Association for Interpretation (NAI).
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