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.

Sunday, April 30, 2023

A Young Nation Expands Westward Across The Mississippi

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On April 30, 1803, France sold almost 830,000 square miles of territory west of the Missuissippi River to the United States. The price: $15,...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

The Duke Of Washington

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Smooth, high brow, faultless, sophisticated, American. All of these words describe the music that came out of the world of Edward Kennedy ...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Jean Redpath: A Scots Voice Remembered

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On this day in 1937 the renowned Scots folk singer, Jean Redpath was born in Edinbrough, United Kingdom. She was a Medieval scholar who focu...

National Blueberry Pie Day 2023

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Today is National Blueberry Pie Day. The first fruits of this year's harvest have just started arriving in the market. I can't think...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

For Now, It's Still The King Of The Skies

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In 1970 Airbus was formed as a multinational corporation to compete with the highly successful commercial aviation industry in the United S...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Chernobyl and Pripyat: Disaster And Decay

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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Ukraine) reactor explosion and fire occurred on this day in 1986. The event remains the worst accident of...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Always The Legendary First Lady Of Song

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The incomparable jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald, was born on this day in Newport News, Virginia, 106 years ago. When she was 17, Ella Jane Fit...
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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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