Old Tybee Ranger

OTR's observations on American culture and experience. And much like that experience you never know what to expect from its participant/observers.

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

The Night Before Thanksgiving

Happy T hanksgiving 2025 Here is a prayer for thanksgiving by Martin Luther... God, the Father Almighty, maker of he...

Sunday, November 2, 2025

Feast Of All Saints Day

All Saints Day in Krakow, Poland The remembrance of the faithful, both depaarted and living, is an old Christian custom celebrated on Nove...

Sunday, October 26, 2025

October Gold

It's that time of year for another Burlington memory harvest. The sights, sounds, tastes, aromas, and feelings are as fresh as this ye...

Thursday, September 11, 2025

A Continuing Battle: Remembering 9/11

For almost two months Muslim forces laid siege to the city of Vienna. Their objective was far larger than a city. It was in fact the defea...

Monday, August 4, 2025

Louis Armstrong: America's Jazzman

If there was one personality to play music as a joyful and universal language in the last century it was Louis Armstrong. He once wrote that...

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

A Giant Leap In Epic High Fantasy

For fantasy fiction fans this day in 1954 has great significance. It is the day that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring f...

Sunday, July 27, 2025

A Time When Dogs Seek Shade

Orion the Hunter Back in the '70's and '80's I had the good fortune to live on the beach of a small barrier island at the ...

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Old Tybee Ranger: Atlanta, Georgia, United States; I was born in Maryland and spent my first thirty years living there, first in the Appalachian Mountains, then on the Eastern Shore, and later in suburban Washington. After a year in South Carolina, I moved to Georgia in 1977. I soon met another park ranger who worked in Florida. She was a wonderful woman who became my best friend. then my wife, and soon the mother of our three children. I spent over eleven years working in the historic city of Savannah, Georgia, and on the moss-draped sea islands nearby before moving to Atlanta.. In 2007, I retired from the National Park Service and a career dedicated to preserving and interpreting resources and themes in the cultural and natural history of the United States. It was a most rewarding experience. Today, I enjoy living in the rolling hills and woods of the Appalachian Piedmont east of Atlanta.

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