Peeling Back The Bark
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Ken Burns’s other “Best Idea” – Using FHS photos in his PBS film, “The National Parks”
By James Lewis on September 25, 2009We recently received an advanced copy of the new Ken Burns film, The National Parks – America’s Best Idea, which begins airing on PBS starting Sunday, September 27. You can see images from the FHS Archives in the first three episodes and our name in the credits. (By the way, if you can’t get to…
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It’s "Talk Like a (Log) Pirate" Day
By James Lewis on September 18, 2009In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19, we here at Peeling Back the Barrrrk bring you the dramatic tale “Log Pirates of Puget Sound.” Although “Log Pirates” is an article by Stewart H. Holbrook that appeared in the January 1937 issue of American Forests, it reads like a pulp thriller/film…
