Even if there’s little chance you’ll make it to the exhibition, Professor Char Miller’s blog post about a Bay Area museum’s take on naturalist John Muir is well worth a visit for the deft writing and insight into the life of the man Miller calls “The Golden State’s Golden Boy.”
Writes Miller: “It was he who gave powerful voice to its wilderness howl, albeit with a Scottish accent. He who cast luminous light on the Sierra, and did so through his legendary tramps through its flowering meadows, along its crystalline rivers, and up into its thin air. In excited prose, he energized Californians and a lot of other Americans to push for the creation of Yosemite National Park (1890) and later for the establishment of the National Park Service (1916). With him as our guide, we’ve scaled such heights.”
