Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefield areas, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors to these areas receive a very special kind of education through the interpretation of informative materials. For fifty years, "Interpreting Our Heritage" has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for and who respond to such interpretive materials. This anniversary edition includes an entirely new selection of photographs, six additional essays by Freeman Tilden, and a new foreword and introduction that put this classic work into perspective for present and future generations. Whether the problem is to make a prehistoric site come to life or to explain the geological theory behind a particular rock formation, Tilden provides helpful principles to follow. For anyone interested in our natural and manmade heritage, this book offers guidance for exploring educational and recreational resources.
Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende
FREEMAN TILDEN (1883-1980) was a pioneer in the field of cultural interpretation. A former journalist, playwright, and novelist, he began writing about America's national parks in the 1940s with the encouragement of the National Park Service director. This led to four books on visiting, learning, and teaching about national heritage sites, of which Interpreting Our Heritage remains the most influential.
Contents
Foreword by Russell E. Dickenson 00
Acknowledgments 00
Introduction to the Fourth Edition 00
Part I
1. Principles of Interpretation 00
2. The Visitor's First Interest 00
3. Raw Material and Its Product 00
4. The Story's the Thing 00
5. Not Instruction but Provocation 00
6. Toward a Perfect Whole 00
7. For the Younger Mind 00
Part II
8. The Written Word 00
9. Past into Present 00
10. Nothing in Excess 00
11. The Mystery of Beauty 00
12. The Priceless Ingredient 00
13. Of Gadgetry 00
14. The Happy Amateur 00
15. Vistas of Beauty 00
Part III. Freeman Tilden's Later Interpretive Writings
16. Mindsight: The Aim of Interpretation 00
17. That Elderly Schoolma'am: Nature 00
18. The Constructive Aspect of Inaction 00
19. Two Concord Men in a Boat 00
20. An Interpretive Ideal 00
Index 00