Chief Mountain, Glacier National Park (NPS photo)
It was a simple toy that looked like a modern-day propeller. Playing with it inspired a couple of brothers to leave their bicycle business to solve the mystery of creating the controlled powered flight of a heavier than air machine. Six decades after their 120-foot, 12-second “slipping of the surly bonds of earth,” humans would set foot on the moon. The relationship between Inspiration and innovation are highlighted at Wright Brothers National Memorial on the North Carolina coast.
The Gothic Palace, the first room in Great Basin National Park's Lehman Caves. (NPS photo)
The Civil War could have ended in a massacre, but instead Confederate soldiers were allowed to take their horses and weapons home and a voucher for food from the Union army. Learn why MERCY is Appomattox Court House National Historical Park’s theme in “America’s Sacred Sites.”
Arrigetch Peaks, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve(NPS photo)
How many of you don't feel like you're in a National Park Service unit until you have a ***unigrid***? Here's the scoop on those black-striped handouts for every park. And who else keeps them in alphabetical order in a file cabinet? Surely it's not just us.
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