For today’s #SixDegreesNPS, we connect to North Cascades National Park Complex in Washington state! In 1950, Pulitzer Prize-winning northwest Beat poet Gary Snyder, then an anthropology student at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, worked at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site as an archaeological aid on some of the National Park Service’s earliest excavations at the site. His field notes are still preserved in our archives. In the summers of 1952 and 1953, Snyder took positions at fire lookouts in the North Cascades, which were then managed by the U.S. Forest Service (the National Park Service began managing the area in the 1960s). He was joined by fellow writers Philip Whalen and Jack Kerouac. Just a few years later, in 1956, Snyder read his poem “Berry Feast” at the famous Six Poets at Six Gallery reading in San Francisco. Learn more about Gary Snyder at oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/snyder_gary_1930_/. Learn more about the Beat poets and fire lookouts at North Cascades National Park at npca.org/news/magazine/all-issues/2009/fall/the-art-of-mountain-watching.html
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:57:40 +0000
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