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About This Site

This comprehensive site about John Muir was initially launched in 1994, and it is still continually being updated and new additions are being made on a regular basis. Check our What's New section, below. Acknowledgements and and further information about the purpose, history, and how you can help on About the Exhibit.

Students & Teachers: Note our extensive Educational Resources, assisting both teachers and students from grade school to graduate school, from home-schoolers to life-long learners of all ages.

To keep current on upcoming events celebrating or inspired by John Muir, see:

This site is maintained by volunteer webmaster and coordinator of the Sierra Club's John Muir Education Team, Harold Wood, with design assistance from Sierra Club staff. To report broken links or for substantive questions, contact: harold.wood@sierraclub.org

What's New

2024 April 25

available on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Children's Books:

  • Added entry for Kelley, Janice, Inspired by John Muir: A Guide to Studying Nature, Capturing Stories and Advocating for Wild Places, 2020.

2024 April 23

available on Favorite Quotations:

  • Added quote "In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks" and two citations for its source.

available on Historical and Literary Analyses, on our Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added the book Wurtz, Mike, John Muir's Grand Yosemite: Musings & Sketches (Yosemite Conservancy, 2020).

2024 March 6

available on Living People Influenced by John Muir, entry for Harold W. Wood, Jr.. and on John Muir Bibliography, Film and Video

  • Added John Muir Was Not a Hiker - Video Interview of Harold Wood by the Irish Hiiker Podcast. (YouTube) (November 30, 2023)..

2024 March 2

available on Songs Inspired by John Muir:

  • Added Hiking with John (YouTube) by Dan Rush, on the 2024 "Dan and Cindy" album Heartwood.

2024 January 14

available on Favorite Quotations:

  • Added quote attributed to John Muir by C. Nelson Hackett from the 1908 Sierra Club Outing to Kern River region saying hiking is a vile word! with Muir preferring the term saunter.

2023 December 21

available on Songs Inspired by John Muir:

2023 November 30

available on Favorite Quotations:

  • Added Muir's "Hiking" quote ("I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike...") - from "A Parable of Sauntering" from The Mountain Trail and Its Message by Albert W. Palmer (1911)

2023 November 28

available on Influential People in John Muir's Life, specifically Brother Cornelius and on John Muir's Gravesite:

  • Added a photo and paragraph about Brother Cornelius being a close friend of the Muir family, including Muir's grandson Robert Hanna, who named one of his sons "Neil" in honor of Brother Cornelius.

2023 September 18

available on Influential People in John Muir's Life, specifically Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, and on Annotated John Muir Bibliography/Book Chapters Featuring John Muir

  • Added Parsell, Diana P., Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees (Oxford University Press, 2023).
    Chapter 9 of this book, the first book-length biography of Eliza Scidmore, "Among the Scientists" deals extensively with Scidmore's friendship and time spent with John and Louie Muir, especially with reference ot explorations in Glacier Bay, Alaska.

2023 September 8

available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography/Book Chapters Featuring John Muir

2023 September 2

available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography/Audio,

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir:

  • Added John Muir: We Thank You (PDF) Sermon by Rev. Kate Kinney, Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. April 23, 2023. A sermon about Muir's life, and an analysis of his spiritual persuasions.

2023 August 18

available on Scientific Names:

  • Added link to Chapter 8 of The Life and Letters of John Muir, Volume 1, to include Henry Edwards full description of the butterfly he named for Muir, Thecla muirii.

available on John Muir Misquoted:

  • Added clarification to expose the inaccuracy of a recent source which brazenly attributed the "into the forest I go to lose my mind and save my soul" misquote to a specific date in John Muir's journal - July 27, 1869 - explaining that a careful examination of the original of the entry for that date reveals nothing approximating it whatsoever.

2023 June 30

available on John Muir National Historic Site:

available on original digitized text of first edition of Life and Letters of John Muir, edited by William Frederic Bade, the 1996 The Life and Letters of John Muir and Other Writings book jacket summary, its press release, and multiple sections of the Annotated John Muir Bibliography, including Anthologies, Audiobooks , Biographies,, Books by John Muir, and Historical and Literary Resources.

available on available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Audiobooks:

  • Added entry for 2022 edition of Travels in Alaska by John Muir Narrated by: Darren Roebuck.

2023 June 25

available on Apps and Virtual Reality section of Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added description and links for "Experience Yosemite," a 3D immersive virtual reality experience offered in-person at the Yosemite Cinema in Oakhurst, California. Also deleted broken links for other elements on this page.

2023 May 16

available on Songs Inspired by John Muir, for song entry Come Back Home by Jonathan Sprout & Dave Kinnoin

2023 May 8

available on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Children's Books:

  • Added entry and book cover image for Mattern, Joanne John Muir, Abdo Publshing, 2014.
  • Added entry and book cover image for Devara, Czeena (author), Bane, Jeff (illustrator), John Muir (My Early Library: My Itty-Bitty Bio), 2018.

2023 May 6

available Abstract of "John Muir and Pioneer Conservationists of the Pacific Northwest" by Ron Eber, and on John Muir in Historical Perspective, edited by Sally M. Miller.

2023 March 25

Available on Mountain Days, the John Muir Musical:

  • Added links to YouTube version of the Original Cast CD and performances from Illinois and Arizona since the original California production.

2023 March 21

available on Historical and Literary Analyses, on our Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added the book King, Dean, Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite (Scribner, 2023) (and book cover image), which tells about Muir's friendship and collaboration with Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of the Century Magazine which led to the preservation of Yosemite.

2023 March 14

available on Book Chapters Featuring John Muir, on our Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added Manna, Salvatore John, "Chapter 6: Muir" in Glorious Trees: Alfred Russel Wallace in California, Calaveras History Publishing (2017), which tells about Muir's meeting with the co-discoverer of natural selection on May 28,1887.

available on Writings by John Muir, Stickeen: John Muir's Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier

  • Added Stickeen: L'aventure d'un chien et d'un glacier (French translation by publisher Les Editions Blanche de Peuterey, 2023) and Stickeen Die Geschichte eines Hundes, a German translation by Ursula Maria Ewald (Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig, 2023).

2023 February 2

  • Completed a nearly 2 - year effort to fix and repair internal links found throughout the site, originating from the site's relocation some years previously. Many external links remain broken, but many are left in place so users can locate the resource using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

2023 January 18

  • Since early November 2022, updated broken links throughout the site.
  • Moved Liberty Ship SS John Muir link to John Muir Global Network with updated pictures and content.

2023 January 5

  • On home page, replaced Muir portrait with 130 anniversary FDC and and deleted 125 year anniversary SC Logo and replaced with 130 anniversary logo.

2022 April 20

  • For last six months, deleteed numerous broken links and identified and fixed broken links using "Integrity" app.

2021 August 24

available on Influential People in John Muir's Life, People Important to John Muir: Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Admirers:

  • Added new entry for Ah Fong, the Chinese cook the Muir family employed for many years..
  • Updated entry for William Kent regarding his donation of Muir Woods and his discriminatory policies concerning Asian immigration.

2021 August 19

available on Famous People John Muir Influenced, People Important to John Muir: Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Admirers:

2021 August 17

available on Influential People in John Muir's Life, People Important to John Muir: Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Admirers: Gifford Pinchot, and Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Biographies:

  • Updated content and corrected links; added entries for Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands by John Clayton (2019)

2021 July 4

available on John Muir National Historic Site on John Muir Gravesite:

  • Added new photographs, a video, and updated text information.

2021 May 28

available on Joseph N. ("Little Joe") LeConte:

2020 March 20

available on Writings

  • Added link to original essay and explanatory material to - Wild Wool

2020 Feb 22

available on John Muir National Historic Site:

2020 Feb 1

available on Writings - Stickeen

available on People Important to John Muir

2020 Jan 17

available on Quotations from John Muir

  • Added original 1875 source for the quote beginning: "Come to the woods, for here is rest..."

2019 Dec 6

available on Film and Video section of Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added "John Muir at Trout Hollow," a docu-drama by writer, director, and producer Amy Phelan.

2019 July 9

available on Songs About John Muir, Songs and Audio About John Muir, and Music, Annotated John Muir Bibliography

2019 July 4

available on Places and Schools Named after John Muir:

  • Revised entry for John Muir Building at Mother Lode Fairgrounds in Sonora, California, to report it has now been re-named the "Tribes of Tuolumne" building.

2019 July 2

available on Songs About John Muir, Songs and Audio About John Muir, and Music, Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added "God's First Temples," a song cycle by composer Anthony Plog, celebrating the beauty of the Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy valleys as described in the writings of John Muir. The world premiere was 9 July 2019, at the Stanford Memorial Church (Stanford, California), in a concert featuring soprano Maria Bengtsson.

2019 June 28

available on John Muir Stamps and First Day Covers - John Muir 1964 Postage Stamp and First Day Covers:

 

2019 June 23

available on John Muir Stamps and First Day Covers - John Muir 1964 Postage Stamp and First Day Covers:

 

2019 May 21

available on Film and Video section of Annotated John Muir Bibliography

2019 May 15

available on Life and Conttributions of John Muir:

 

2019 April 26

available on John Muir Geography, Re-Tracing John Muir's Famous Walks & Travels::

 

2019 April 18

available on University of the Pacific

 

2019 April 11

available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Periodicals:

  • Added entry for Hunt, Rockwell J. California Mountain Men of Another Breed, The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3 (September,1952), pp. 213-228. Available on Jstor.

 

2019 March 31

available on Live Presentations:

2019 February 22

available on Life and Conttributions of John Muir:

2019 February 7

available on Songs About John Muir, Songs and Audio About John Muir, and Music, Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added John Muir Stood Here by Jason Ringenberg, on his album "Stand Tall" 2019, written while commissioned as an Artist in Residence in Sequoia National Park in California.

 

2019 January 25

available on Pictures and Images :

available on Film and Video section of Annotated John Muir Bibliography and on Chronology (Timeline) of the Life and Legacy of John Muir :

  • Added January 23, 2019 - Actor Steve Berg narrates, while inebriated (or pretending to be), a very silly version of John Muir's camping trip with Theodore Roosevelt, on Comedy Central's "Drunk History" show, from Season 6, Episode 2. Actor and comedian Thomas Middleditch played the role of John Muir. Host Derek Waters.

2018 August 22

available on and Chronology (Timeline) of the Life and Legacy of John Muir :

  • Added August 22, 2018 - A film Ode to Muir by Teton Gravity tells about a 40-mile foot-powered winter expedition deep into California's John Muir Wilderness by professional snowboarder, adventurer and founder of Protect Our Winters Jeremy Jones and two-time Olympian Elena Hight.

2018 August 15

available on A Geography of John Muir, Places and Schools Named After John Muir

2018 August 12

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir:

2018 August 6

available on Writings of John Muir, Articles, Places Important to John Muir, Annotated Chronology, and Alphabetical Index:

  • Added Lake Tahoe in Winter, by John Muir,. Published in Sierra Club Bulletin,Vol. 3, No. 2, May, 1900, pp. 119 - 126.
  • Added description of Muir's multiple visits to Lake Tahoe

2018 July 31

available on Songs About John Muir, Songs and Audio About John Muir, and Music, Annotated John Muir Bibliography

2018 July 29

available on Film and Video, Annotated John Muir Bibliography

2018 July 25

available on Songs About John Muir, Songs and Audio About John Muir, and Music, Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added two operatic songs by Nell Shaw Cohen, "Crescent Meadow," and "Dear Mrs. Carr."

2018 July 20

available on Songs About John Muir, Songs and Audio About John Muir, and Music, Annotated John Muir Bibliography

  • Added Rainbow Dust - A song using John Muir's writings, written by students of the John Muir Middle School, Burbank, California, 2014.

 

2018 June 30

available on Tributes to John Muir:

2018 June 14

available on Sound and Music, Orchestral, Choral, and Opera Music Inspired by John Muir, and Annotated Bibliographic Resources, Music:

  • Added new page about "Nature's Repose" by Libby McQuiston, including mp3 sound clip preview.

available on John Muir 1964 Postage Stamp and First Day Covers :

2018 June 9

available on Living People Influenced by John Muir:

available on Bibliographic Resources, Book Press Releases:

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir:

available on A Geography of John Muir and Places Important to John Muir:

available on Places Important to John Muir:

  • Added new entries for Illinois, Texas, and Washington, D.C.

 

2018 June 3

available on Retracing John Muir's Famous Walks and Places Important to John Muir - A Geography of John Muir and on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography,

  • Added Harriman Alaska Expedition information, including film and books published in 1901, 2001, and 2018.

available on Places and Schools Named after John Muir:

  • Added entry for John Muir Grove in Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

2018 May 22

available on Organizations and Newsletters Related to John Muir:

  • Corrected and updated numerous links and added several organizations and resources

2018 May 20

Available on Book Chapters Featuring John Muir:

  • Added entry for Lankford, Scott, "John Muir: Tahoe National Park," Chapter 8 in Tahoe Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Stories of America's Largest Mountain Lake. ( jointly published by Berkeley, Heyday and Rocklin, Sierra College Press, 1910.

Available on Places Important to John Muir:

  • Added a brief summary of Muir's 1888 sailing circumnavigation of Lake Tahoe and a reference to the Scott Lankford book chapter.

2018 May 6

available on Retracing John Muir's Famous Walks and Places Important to John Muir - A Geography of John Muir and on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Books by John Muir:

  • Added entry for Anywhere That is Wild: John Muir's First Walk to Yosemite (Yosemite Conservancy, 2018), edited by Peter & Donna Thomas. Consolidates and organizes 13 different sources from Muir's articles, books, and letters (his 1868 journal is missing) that tell the story of Muir's 1868 walk from San Francisco to Yosemite.

2018 May 1

2018 April 27

 

available on Educational Resources, Using John Muir to Promote Environmental Awareness, Lesson Plans, John Muir Day Study Guide, John Muir Day Celebration Guide, Book Jackets, and Annotated Bibliography, For Educators and Youth Group Leaders

  • Added Journal Writing with John Muir, including new tips and resources, and links to new pages for:
    • Keeping a Nature Journal by Bonnie Johanna Gisel, Ph.D. - Provides a template for making your own simple 4-page (or 8 page) nature journal, with inspiration from John Muir on how to write a journal on the back. You can tie your journal with a red ribbon to hold it together, just like Marion Randall Parsons, an early Sierra Club leader who helped him write his last book.
    • Nature Journal With John Muir Edited by Bonnie Johanna Gisel - A "blank journal" of 160 pages with quotes from John Muir interspersed throughout. The quotes help provide stepping-stones for inspiration and thoughtfulness for your own writing and sketching journey. Includes an introduction on "How to Begin Writing and Sketching in Your Nature Journal."
    • John Muir Observer Journal, by the University of the Pacific. - A "blank journal" of 144 pages, with an initial 16 pages filled with drawing, notes, and writings from John Muir's personal journal, as well as useful tips designed to get you to observe the world around you like John Muir did. A collaborative publication with the University of the Pacific's John Muir Center.
    • John Muir Notebook (The Signature Notebook Series) by Cider Mill Press (2016). A pocket-sized (4 x 0.8 x 6 inches) leather bound blank journal, with rounded corners, easy to stuff into a back pocket or a day pack. Half the size of most blank journals, it features a beautiful cover with the name and signature facsimile "John Muir" and a color half-portrait of John Muir. About a dozen quotes from John Muir, printed in artistic lettering, are interspersed throughout the blank pages along with a few black-and-white photographs. 192 pages.

2018 April 25

available on Geography, Places Named After John Muir:

  • Added information and a PDF fact sheet for Martinez - "Muir Station"

2018 April 11

available on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Historical and Literary Analysis:

Added entry for Barnett, Raymond, Earth Wisdom: John Muir, Accidental Taoist, Charts Humanity's Only Future on a Changing Planet


available on Book Jackets:

Added Earth Wisdom: John Muir, Accidental Taoist, Charts Humanity's Only Future on a Changing Planet by Raymond Barnett

available on Book Reviews:

Added links to Reviews of Earth Wisdom on Raymond Barnett's Website. (off-site link) and Book Review Presentation by Harold Wood on Raymond Barnett's Earth Wisdom (PDF - April 8 , 2018)- off-site link)

 

2018 April 4

available on John Muir in Sculpture:

  • Added description, photo, and links for the John Muir Luminary Art Bench in downtown Chico.

2018 March 29

available on Famous People John Muir Influenced, People Important to John Muir: Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Admirers:

  • Added new page for Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Alaska explorer, journalist, and conservation advocate, written by her contemporary biographer Diana Parsell.

2018 March 27

available on University of the Pacific and John Muir Center and Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir:

2018 March 26

available on Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir:

2018 March 21

available on Sound and Music, Songs About John Muir - Orchestral and Opera Music Inspired by John Muir, and Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music:

 

2018 March 8

available on Geography, Places Named After John Muir:

  • Updated and added listings for Washington, D.C.

available on University of the Pacific and John Muir Center:

available on Songs and Audio About John Muir, Audio Books and Spoken Word and Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Audio:

 

2018 February 27

available on John Muir National Historic Site, and Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir:

  • Expanded and updated several paragraphs on John Muir Gravesite with information about John Muir's philosophy about death, his death and funeral, and the annual pilgrimages to his gravesite.
  • Added additional entries in Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir for years 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1935, 1959, 1953, and 1964

2018 February 23

available on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Children's Books

  • Added entry and book cover image for Grody, Carl, A Walk with John Muir.

available on Book Reviews:

2018 February 21

available on Quotations from John Muir

  • Added the popular quote (along with an explanation) which is mistakenly truncated so as to reverse its meaning: "The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly."

2018 February 10

available on University of the Pacific and John Muir Center:

2018 February 10

available on Geography, Places Named After John Muir and John Muir in Florida:

2018 January 3

available on on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Fiction:

  • Added entry for "Muir on Shasta," in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson.
  • Added entry for Muir Woods or Bust by Ian Woolen.

2017 December 23

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir, Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Internet Resources, Related Resources, Educational Resources, and About the Sierra Club and

  • Added link to John Muir and the Sierra Club - a website/blog created by students at the University of the Pacific, hoping to "educate young minds on who John Muir was, his importance, his legacy, and his impact. Enjoy exploring through old photographs, ways to volunteer, viewing nature landscapes, listening to beautiful narrations from John Muir's journals,  and even videos of current Sierra Club members themselves."

2017 December 13

available on John Muir National Historic Site, and John Muir Genealogy and Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir, and additional links throughout the site:

  • Expanded and updated entry on John Muir Gravesite with expanded text, additional photos, links, and a video.

 

2017 December 3

available on Living People Influenced by John Muir:

available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Film and Video and on Geography, Places Named After John Muir

2017 November 16

available on Current and Upcoming Events:

  • Added November 13, 2017, 7 PM - An Influential Life — John Muir special cross-disciplinary presentation at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

2017 November 12

available on Songs, (Orchestral and Opera Music Inspired by John Muir), and Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music:

  • Added "Sequoia Trio" by American composer Jenni Brandon.
  • Added Matt McBane's "On and On and"

2017 October 20

available on Songs, (Orchestral and Opera Music Inspired by John Muir), and Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music:

  • Added new links and expanded entry for John Muir - University of the Wilderness, a narrative concert for voice and string quartet, composed by Cheryl Leah and Ed Willett, performed by "urban chamber music" group "Chance."

2017 October 20

available on Live Presenters Portraying John Muir:

  • Added John Kolar of the Geauga Park District in Ohio.

 

2017 October 19

available on Chronology (Timeline) of the Life and Legacy of John Muir From his birth to the present day 1838-2017:

  • Added new entries to fill in gaps for 1922, 1923, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1933, and 1935.

2017 October 19

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir, Chronology (Timeline) of the Life and Legacy of John Muir From his birth to the present day 1838-2017: and Influential People in John Muir's Life - Merrill Moores; and Book Chapters Featuring John Muir:

2017 October 18

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir, Chronology (Timeline) of the Life and Legacy of John Muir From his birth to the present day 1838-2017: and Influential People in John Muir's Life - John Burroughs:

2017 October 14

available on Current Events and Bibliographic Resources, Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Live Presentations:

  • Added information about Largely Literary Theater performance of "A Force of Nature" about John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt's meeting in Yosemite in 1903.

2017 September 17

available on Songs Inspired by John Muir and Bibliographic Resources, Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music:

  • Added Gigi Love's song, "Yosemite Gold."

2017 September 12

available on Songs Inspired by John Muir and Bibliographic Resources, Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music:

  • Added entry and annotation for Jake Runesad's "Come to the Woods."
  • Added entry and annotation for BubbleCatsPdx perform Mountain Man (Soundcloud.com link).

2017 August 26

available on Museums and Exhibits Featuring John Muir:

  • Added entries for The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
  • Added entry for The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum
  • Added entry for Ellis Island temporary John Muir exhibitions
  • Added entry for the California Museum, California Hall of Fame

available on John Muir Stamps and First Day Covers, John Muir 1964 Postage Stamp and First Day Covers :

  • Added link to Arago - People, Postage, & the Post - National Postal Museum - John Muir Issue.

available on John Muir Stamps and First Day Covers, John Muir 1998 Postage Stamp and First Day Covers:

2017 August 24

available on John Muir Stamps and First Day Covers,

2017 August 11

available on John Muir Stamps and First Day Covers, John Muir 1964 Postage Stamp and First Day Covers :

2017 August 9

available on Current Events and on Places Important to John Muir (Tennessee), and Chronology (Timeline) of the Life and Legacy of John Muir From his birth to the present day 1838-2017:

  • Added a listing for the upcoming September 9, 2017 - 'Muir Fest" - Roane County and the City of Kingston, Tennessee, will be hosting a "Muir Fest" to commemorate the 150th anniversary of naturalist John Muir's visit to the area. The Muir Festival at Fort Southwest Point on September 9, 2017 will feature music, food and educational programs designed to bring attention to environmental issues. Recognized as "The Father of the National Parks System" and the founder of the Sierra Club, Muir passed through Kingston on Sept. 12, 1867 on his 1,000-mile walk from Kentucky to Florida. After crossing what historians believe is either the Little Emory River or the Emory River, Muir spent some time in what he described as a "grand rock dwelling," declaring the surrounding countryside to be "the most heavenly place I ever entered." The Roane Alliance Vice President of Tourism Pam May said the Muir Festival will celebrate the natural beauty of Roane County. "We want to make it a 'Soak in Roane' event," she said. Music will be a big part of the event, she said. Rockwood native Jason Eskridge and Winchester native and former biologist Jay Clark will headline the concert. Clark has played in several bluegrass bands and is an established solo artist. Clark will speak at the festival as a former wildlife biologist. Other speakers are planned. Kingston City Manager David Bolling said he hopes to the festival will grow into an annual event. Attendees at the event will also have the opportunity to win a kayak donated by Uncle Lem's in Knoxville.
    Learn more:
    http://www.roanecounty.com/content/festival-celebrate-naturalist's-trek
    http://www.roanetourism.com/vendor/296/muir-fest/

available on Chronology (Timeline) of the Life and Legacy of John Muir From his birth to the present day 1838-2017:

  • Added new listings of Muir-related events for calendar year 2016 and 2017.

2017 July 31

available on Songs and Audio About John Muir

  • Added Recollections of John Muir by Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley - Interviews with John H. Briones, William E. Colby, Herbert M. Evans and Frank Swett conducted by John M. Jencks and Ernest Lowe for radio station KPFA, Berkeley, 1964.

available on Geography, Places Named After John Muir

  • Added John Muir Way - The John Muir Way stretches 134 miles or 215 km across Scotland's heartland, running between Helensburgh in the west through to Dunbar on the east coast and Muir's birthplace. It is a walking and cycling path, that can also be ridden in parts by horseback. Opened in 2014, the centenary of John Muir's death, the John Muir Way encourages Scots to engage with nature on their doorstep and to awaken interest and respect for John Muir's philosophy across Scotland.

2017 July 24

available on John Muir in the Arts, John Muir Collectibles

  • Added "Muir for President" t-shirt and "John Muir for President" sticker.

 

2017 July 21

available on Songs Inspired by John Muir and Bibliographic Resources, Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music:

  • Added Geordie McIntyre's song John Muir, including annotation, lyrics, and link to listen to the song.

2017 July 4

available on Songs Inspired by John Muir and Bibliographic Resources, Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music:

  • Added The Redwoods song Listen to John Muir which recommends this response to the world's troubles: "Well listen to John Muir / the mountaintops are all we need." From the digital album by the same name on bandcamp.com, where you can preview the song, read the lyrics, and purchase. (offsite-links)

2017 June 12

available on Current Events:

  • Added listings for upcoming photographic exhibit about John Muir's travels, world premiere of the orchestral work, "Range of Light," Lee Stetson's performances at Yosemite Theatre, and Muir topics presented at the Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center.

available on Songs and Audio About John Muir, Audio Books and Spoken Word and Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Audio:

2017 June 2

available on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Book Chapters Featuring John Muir:

  • Added annotation for Dillon, Richard, Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers.

available on Sound and Music, Songs About John Muir - Orchestral and Opera Music Inspired by John Muir, and Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music:

  • Added The Range of Light, composed by Keith Fitch, will be premiered in summer of 2017 at the Rocky Ridge Music Center in Rocky Mountain National Park. The work uses texts selected from several of John Muir's writings, including "Our National Parks," "My First Summer in the Sierra," "The Yosemite," as well as various unpublished texts. The performance date is Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 3pm at Rocky Ridge (located outside Estes Park, CO). See the Rocky Ridge Music Center page on The Range of Light (off-site link) for more information. (Updated June 9, 2017)

2017 May 29

available on Famous People John Muir Influenced, People Important to John Muir: Family, Friends, Colleagues, and Admirers:

  • Updated page on Aldo Leopold to include additional citations of sources, a new graphic, updated links, and additional information.

2017 May 7

available on John Muir in Sculpture:

  • Added Commemorative Plaque for John Muir Memorial Shelter by sculptor Paul DiPasquale, of Richmond, Virginia.
  • Added bas relief of John Muir by sculptor Homer Daehn of Baraboo, Wisconsin.

2017 April 23

available on John Muir in the Arts, John Muir Collectibles, and John Muir in Sculpture:

2017 April 16

available on Current Events:

  • Added new events for April, 2017.

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  • Added April 13, 2017 Press Release about upcoming presentation

2017 April 9

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  • Added photo of Pat Mosley as curator of LeConte Memorial Lodge in 1993.

2017 April 2

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  • Added extensive quote from Mills about John Muir presented at the 1917 National Parks Conference in Washington, D.C.

2017 February 23

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  • Added to section on "John Muir Reminiscences by those who knew him," an article "John Muir," by Ray Stannnard Baker, Outlook, (June 6, 1903). (PDF)

2017 January 28

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  • Added entry for Chuck Roe -A Sesquicentennial Account of John Muir's 1,000 Mile Walk - A review of the landscape 150 years after Muir's walk, with a focus on the progress of land conservation and identification of the many publicly-accessible, protected natural areas now located immediately along Muir's route.  Roe's intent was to observe and describe the publicly accessible parks, nature preserves, forests and wildlife management areas, and other recreational areas along Muir's walking route through parts of five southern states, in homage and testimony to the success story of land conservation in the southeastern U.S.

 

2017 January 9

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2016 December 5

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  • Added annotation listing and book jacket summary for the historical children's mystery novel, Broach, Elise, The Wolf Keepers.

2016 November 2

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  • Added listing for Tallmadge, John, "John Muir, Emerson, and the Book of Nature: the Explorer as Prophet," in America: Exploration and Travel, edited by Steven Kagel (Bowling Green State University Press, 1979, pp. 113-125). Tells how Muir's copy of Emerson's essays, found now in the Beinecke Rare Book Library, was dented and smudged with pine resin, and it had his markings and drawings, revealing how he had read and interpreted his great mentor. See also Tallmadge's book Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher's Path (University of Utah Press, 1997), pp. 49-55 ("Finding the Book of Nature"), which describe Muir's relationships with the Transcendentalists and his encounter with Emerson, including Tallmadge's discovery of his copy of the latter's Essays.

2016 October 23

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2016 October 22

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2016 October 2

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  • Added Primary Sources for John Muir's writings - Browse or Search online - This guide provides Finding Aids for the University of the Pacific Holt-Atherton Library Special Collections and finding primary sources of John Muir's writings.

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  • Added Range of Light [iTunes link] by Thomas Schemenaur from his album of the same title - a rock song using Muir's quote "Nature's peace will flow into you" quote and other paraphrases from Muir's writings.

2016 September 26

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  • Added entry for Ben Clawson's play King of the Mountains. Premiered October 9, 2016 at Luna Stage theatre in West Orange, New Jersey.

2016 September 25

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  • Added "John Muir and the Poetics of Natural Conversion" (PDF) by John Tallmadge, North Dakota Quarterly 59::2 (Spring 1991), pp. 62-79. Discussion of My First Summer in the Sierra as a conversion story. Includes an insightful analysis of why Muir's regard for plants and animals as "people" and our 'horizontal brothers" is not an application of the so-called "pathetic fallacy." This article provided for the John Muir Exhibit by the author, John Tallmadge.

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2016 August 27

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2016 August 9

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  • Added "Muir" directed by Chandler Ellison (2015), a short animated film using Muir's writings from his book "Out National Parks" to celebrate nature and our national parks.

2016 August 3

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2016 July 30

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  • Added entry for USS John Muir, a fictional star ship mentioned in the 1991 motion picture "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."

2016 June 19

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Added corresponding links and updates to John Muir's Gravesite, and entries for Louie Strentzel Muir, Helen Muir and Wanda Muir.

2016 May 14

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2016 May 13

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  • Added updated information about the GUY family (descendants of John Muir and his daughter Helen)..

 

2016 May 9

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  • Replaced primary image from 2005 California Quarter to 2016 National Park Service Centennial Commemorative Gold Coin.
  • Added descriptive text.
  • Added fundraising information for Yosemite Conservation Heritage Center

 

2016 May 6

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2016 May 5

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  • Added new bullet point regarding Lummis founding Indian rights group called the "Sequoya League," and John Muir joining as a member.
  • Added new bullet point regarding new KCET production about Lummis.

 

2016 May 2

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  • Deleted link to a web page (and website) that no longer exists - Related web page: Emerson & John Muir, Edited by Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com"
  • Corrected link to Swett, John, John Muir - from Century Magazine (May, 1893)

2016 April 28

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  • Replaced photo of Wooden sculpture of John Muir by R.L. Blair.
  • Added feature and photo of Bronze Statue at John Muir National Historic Site.

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  • Added entry and annotation for John Muir's Book of Animals, Illustrated by Lissel Jane Ashlock.

2016 April 27

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  • Added entry and annotation for Wulf, Andrea, "Preservation and Nature" in The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World (2015).

2016 April 25

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2016 April 17

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  • Added annotation, embed, and listing for John Muir - Coming Home - short film directed by Michael Coleman, 2016, Streaming video on Vimeo.com.

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  • Deleted broken link and substituted new link for Daniel Muir Family Tree - Descendents of John Muir's father, Daniel Muir, from WikiTree (offsite link)

2016 March 28

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2016 March 24

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  • Created new calendar year section and added entries of Muir's activities for the year 1902.

2016 March 9

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  • Added link to John Muir in Portland - Exhibit by Anton Vetterlein - Museum of the City, Portland, Oregon. (off-site link)

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2016 March 6

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  • Added "Hetch Hetchy in His Heart" Copyright 2016 by Brenna Gerlach. John Muir with Hetch Hetchy Valley as it appeared before the dam. Contact the artist at www.brennagerlach.org.

2016 March 1

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2016 January 20

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  • Added new state, Connecticut, and entry for its own 2.1 mile "John Muir Trail" located in Paugnut State Forest (near Torrington).

2016 January 18

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2016 January 14

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2016 January 3

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  • Updated page on Theodore Roosevelt adding extensive information and links about his famous 1903 camping trip with Muir, including articles, videos, and the 2016 National Park Service Centennial commemorative coin featuring Muir and Roosevelt.

2015 December 30

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2015 December 16

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  • Added listings for "In the Spirit of John Muir" by Zeki Basan (2015) ; and "The Most Important Camping Trip in U.S. History" - movie trailer. Watch trailer on YouTube. (2015)

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2015 December 15

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  • Added items for 2015

2015 November 23

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  • Added page for Pat Mosley, John Muir devotee and curator.

2015 November 21

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  • Added All the Colors of Nature by Michael Brune (November 12, 2015) - What John Muir did on Thanksgiving and "Black Friday."

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2015 November 20

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2015 September 11

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Added updates to Huell Howser videos to indicate free streaming available from Huell Howser California's Gold Archives from Chapman University:

  • "California's Gold: John Muir" #5005". VIDEOCASSETTE. Huell Howser Productions, 2003. Free streaming video available from Huell Howser California's Gold Archive from Chapman University. 30 minutes. $19.95. Also available in DVD as part of Huell Howser's "Yosemite Week" series, available from Huell Howser Productions, (818) 710-0016.
    Part of Huell Howser's "California's Gold" television series, this episode involves views and two interviews conducted outside on location in Yosemite National Park. The first brief interview is of Scott Gediman, National Park Service spokesman, who gives a concise summary of who John Muir was and his importance. The rest of the video is an interview of John Muir himself (embodied by actor Lee Stetson). Part of the interview is conducted in the middle of a meadow in Yosemite Valley, with views of the spectacular granite cliffs in all directions; the final portion is conducted at Glacier Point, as Muir explains the geological history of these glaciated mountains.
  • "California's Golden Parks: Hetch Hetchy # 138." DVD or VHS. Huell Howser Productions, 2005. Free streaming video available from Huell Howser California's Gold Archive from Chapman University. Huell Howser Productions, 2005. 60 minutes. $24.95 (Price Includes Sales Tax), available from Huell Howser Productions, (818) 710-0016.
    Part of Huell Howser's "California's Golden Parks" television series. Before it was dammed in the early 1900s, John Muir called it more beautiful than Yosemite Valley itself. And now, in a one-hour special, Huell travels to this historic and spectacular place to document its past and talk about its future.
  • "California's Golden Parks: John Muir Home" #129". VIDEOCASSETTE or DVD. Free streaming video available from Huell Howser California's Gold Archive from Chapman University. Huell Howser Productions, 2004. 30 minutes. $19.95, also available as part of "Yosemite Week" series, available from Huell Howser Productions, (818) 710-0016.
    Part of Huell Howser's "California's Golden Parks" television series, this episode involves views and interviews conducted on location at John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, the Victorian residence in Martinez where the naturalist John Muir lived from 1890 to his death in 1914. After a brief introductory interview of National Park Service spokesman Tad Shay and a visit to Muir's "scribble den," Huell interviews the woman, Faire Sax, who, with her husband Henry, was responsible for restoring and preserving this important site, and then placing it under the protection of the National Park Service. An inspiring example of the difference one or a few people can make!

2015 September 7

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2015 August 31

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  • Added listings for This Grand Show is Eternal music by Lee Kesselman, Winds composed by Richard Cowan, Tree Ride, composed by Justin Ralls, Two Yosemites: An Outdoor Chamber Opera by Justin Ralls, and John Muir - University of the Wilderness, a narrative concert for voice and string quartet, composed by Ed Willett.

2015 August 5

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  • Updated page to add new recording by Alasdair Fraser and the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers, update description, and delete obsolete sound files.

2015 July 12

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  • Updated the Stickeen Introduction page with new entry for John Muir and Stickeen: An Icy Adventure with a No-Good Dog by Julie Dunlap and Marybeth Lorbiecki, updated information and image for Lee Stetson's Stickeen CD, added a link to Project Gutenberg free Stickeen ebook, and additional minor updates.

2015 July 12

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2015 July 12

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  • Added new entry for Rosenstock, Barb, The Camping Trip that Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and our National Parks (Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2012)
  • Added new entry for Dunlap, Julie & Marybeth Lorbiecki; Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth, John Muir and Stickeen: An Icy Adventure with a No-Good Dog (NorthWord Press, October, 2004).
  • Added new entry for Goldstein, Natalie John Muir (Conservation Heroes) (Chelsea House (An imprint of Infobase Learning), available from publisher in Library Binding or ebook formats, 2011)

2015 July 9

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  • Added new entry for Highland, Chris, Jesus and John Muir: A Wilderness Novel (Amazon Kindle/CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2011)
  • Added new entry for Randall, John, Jonathan's Song (Amazon Kindle/CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2014)
  • Added new entry for Wilcox, David Matthew, Roosevelt,Muir, Clio and Me: A Novel of Loss and Discovery (Dog Ear Publishing, LLC, 2014)
  • Added new entry for Bartagna, Julie, John Muir Earth-Planet Universe (Edinburgh: Scottish Book Trust, 2014 (A graphic novel also included in Children's Books section)

2015 July 7

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  • Added new entries for Robert Hanna

 

2015 May 22

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  • Added entries for Anaheim, Disney California Adventure Theme Park, Grizzly Peak Airfield (opened May 15, 2015)
    • Mt. Muir Lookout
    • Sign with Muir quote: "Come to the woods, for here is rest."
    • Sign with Muir quote: "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

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2015 May 21

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  • Updated page on Enos Mills to add quotes, book references, update the portrait photo, and add and correct off-site links.

2015 May 15

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  • Added link under the section on Theater, Drama, Film to Thank God For John Muir - A Play by Andrew Dallmeyer performed in Dunbar, March 2015. The five minute excerpt gives a taste of the performance and evening.

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  • Added links and descriptions for several 2015 National History Day competition winners.

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2015 May 11

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  • Added listing for 6th Annual John Muir Festival in Coulterville, California.

2015 April 24

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2015 April 18

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2015 April 6

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  • Added annotation for Fleischman, Robert R., Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom and Poetry of Gandhi, Thoreau, the Buddha, and Others (Pariyatti Publishing., 2003 Second Edition).

2015 April 4

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  • Added link and annotation for Muir's Tea Room in Sebastopol, California.
  • Updated description and added links for John Muir Memorial Muir Shelter (aka as "Muir Hut").

2014 December 7

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  • Added listing and annotation for John O' Mountains by Alice Riley.(1997)

2014 November 22

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2014 October 24

2014 July 30

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  • Added entry for "John Muir: An Animated Life," by pupils at Law, Musselburgh Burgh and Dunbar Primary school in East Lothian, Scotland.

2014 July 6

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  • Added entry for a stop-motion animated film titled "Muir" by Ian Timothy.

2014 June 29

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2014 April 19

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2014 February 1

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  • Added an illustrated book jacket summary (from the book's front matter), including the Table of Contents and author biographies for The Pacific Historian, The World of John Muir (Stockton: Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies, University of the Pacific, 1981).

2014 January 18

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  • Added updated items for calendar years 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.

2014 January 16

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2013 July 20

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  • Added entry for concert band piece "A Dauntless Soul" by composer William Camphouse, premiered at John Swett High School on May 17, 2013.

2013 May 12

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  • Updated page to add the John Muir Tartan to the California State Tartan description

2013 May 11

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June 7 & 8, 2013 - Fourth Annual John Muir Festival in Coulterville, California.

Friday, June 7, 2013 5:30pm THE TRAMP AND THE ROUGH RIDER- Historical Performance by Lee Stetson and Alan Sutterfield
Location: Granite Dell Gardens, at 10265 Granite Dell Road, on Highway 132, 8-miles SW from Coulterville, California

Saturday, June 8, 2013, 10am- 5pm - FOURTH ANNUAL JOHN MUIR FESTIVAL, Coulterville Park On Highway 132 & 49, Coulterville, CA. For more information, contact the John Muir Geotourism Center.

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2013 May 9

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  • Added SAVE THE DATE - John Muir Symposium March 21-22, 2014:
    Join the University of the Pacific's John Muir Center on the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant, the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death and the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, and the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act to revisit John Muir’s life and legacy. University of the Pacific will host the 60th California History Institute on its Stockton campus from Friday, March 21, through Saturday, March 22, 2014. Expect to hear papers by new Muir scholars currently working Muir’s legacy, as well as several familiar names who have become regulars at Muir symposia. Plenary sessions and keynotes will be given by three scholars now living in the U. K.: Terry Gifford, Graham White and Andrea Wulf. A special exhibit on the history of the Muir Papers and their present locations is planned, as well as coordinated field trips before and after the symposium. If interested in presenting or attending the conference, please contact : wswagerty@pacific.edu
  • Added April 8, 2013 - Digitizing Two Homes of John Muir - A PROJECT has been launched to document in three-dimensional digital format Scottish conservationist John Muir's homes.
  • Added Press Release John Muir Weekend April 2013 in Dunbar Scotland (PDF)
  • April 3 - June 3, 2013 - John Muir Exhibit at Federal Hall, NYC - As part of Scotland Tartan Week 2013,the American Scottish Foundation is hosting a photographic exhibition "In The Footsteps of John Muir" by renowned Scottish photographer Ken Paterson. The exhibit traces Muir's early days in Dunbar, Scotland to his love of Yosemite, allowing one to see the environment Muir loved and did so much to help preserve. The exhibit, part of Scotland Tartan Week 2013, the Year of Natural Scotland, also celebrates the 175th Anniversary of the birth of John Muir on April 21, and Earth Day on April 22. In honor of Earth Week (April 21-25), Federal Hall will be showing the documentary film "John Muir In The New World" - honoring too John Muir's birthday. Presented in conjunction with the National Park Service, the exhibit will be on display in the Lower Rotunda through June 3, 2013. Visit photographer Ken Paterson's website to view images from the exhibit and his "John Muir Photographic Expedition."

2013 March 22

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  • Added John Muir in Alaska - by Alaska Public Media KSTK - Wrangell - March 22, 2013 (streaming audio - approximately 5 minutes)

2013 January 18

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  • Added link and embedded audio code for William E. Colby reminiscences (196x) , Concerning John Muir, the Sierra Club, Yosemite Valley, conservation, etc., interviewed by Charlotte Mauk, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. (streaming audio)

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  • Added link to How Muir Are You? - Take a Sierra Club quiz to find out just how similar to our beloved Sierra Club founder, the Father of National Parks, you are.

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  • Updated Ansel Adams page with additional information, sources, and links.

2013 January 1

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Added Annotation, Book Jacket Summary, and notation on Re-Tracing John Muir's Famous Walks for Restless Fires: Young John Muir's Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867–68 by James B. Hunt (2012), including book cover and flyleaf showing some of Muir's sketches from his Thousand Mile Walk journal.

2012 December 29

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  • Added news item for upcoming traveling exhibition, “Nature’s Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy”

    Riverside Metropolitan Museum

    Riverside Metropolitan Museum
    3580 Mission Inn Avenue
    Riverside, CA 92501

    Exhibit Open December 2, 2012 - January 19, 2014

    “John Muir and the Personal Experience of Nature” exhibit at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum focuses on Muir's contributions as a scientist — mainly as a botanist — but also examines nature’s role in individuals’ lives and the history of the United States, reminding visitors that nature is everywhere.

    The exhibition is comprised of the traveling exhibition, “Nature’s Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy” by Exhibit Envoy; objects and specimens from Riverside Metropolitan’s collection and Smithsonian’s National Herbarium; and images and resources from the Holt-Atherton Special Collections (University of the Pacific); the Local History collection of the Riverside Public Library; the UC Riverside Department of Biology; and California Museum of Photography.

2012 December 28

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  • Added sources to all remaining quotations which did not already have sources listed, including links to each. Many thanks to Dan Styer for finding and identifying the sources for many of these quotes.

2012 November 10

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2012 November 2

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  • Added link to John Muir Geotourism Center - Based in Coulterville, California, exploring, learning, sharing, and preserving the natural environment for mental, spiritual and physical development, as exemplified in John Muir's life.

2012 October 6

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  • Added new page for "Sweet and Easy" a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Kathy Muir, including background on how the song was inspired by John Muir, lyrics, and an embedded YouTube video.

2012 May 26

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2012 May 12

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  • Added entry and link to website for John Muir: from BBC One series "The Last Explorers"

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2012 May 5

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2012 April 22

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  • Added annotation and book jacket summary for The Contemplative John Muir: Spiritual Quotations from the Great American Naturalist by Stephen K. Hatch

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2012 February

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  • Added entry for Fall/Winter 2011-2012 - including "An Essay on John Muir's Phenomenal Science" by Bonnie Johanna Gisel and news updates.

2011 December 10

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2011 November 13

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  • Added entry for Appleseeds Magazine: John Muir (April, 2011)

2011 November 12

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  • Added entry for traveling exhibit to the Atlanta History Center.

2011 August 9

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  • Added entry for Dr. D. Bruce Means who retraced Muir's 1,000 walk in 1984, and was heartsick to discover that virtually none of Muir's wilderness remained along the route.

2011 August 8

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  • Added entry for new audio book, "My First Summer in the Sierra" by John Muir (compact disk or digital download), Reader: Brett Barry. (Silver Hollow Audio Chichester, NY 12416, August, 2011) 6 hours. Available on 5 CDs or by digital download.

2011 July 30

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2011 July 20

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2011 July 9

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  • Added a new page: Museums Featuring John Muir . Added information about the Oakland Museum's new John Muir exhibit: A Walk in the Wild: Continuing John Muir's Journey

2011 April 24

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2011 April 23

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  • Restored missing sections from this page, including John Muir Reminiscences By Those Who Knew Him, Modern Essays About John Muir, Conservation Legacy, Muir's Philosophy, Articles from Other Sources, Digital Books or Book Chapters on John Muir, and Other Resources.
  • Added Was John Muir a Draft Dodger? by Harold Wood

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2011 March 25

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  • Added listing and annotation for Lee Stetson: the Voice of John Muir DVD, 2010.

available on About John Muir and on Bibliographic Resources , Film and Video:

  • Added quote from documentary film-maker Ken Burns "As we got to know him... he [John Muir] ascended to the pantheon of the highest individuals in our country; I'm talking about the level of Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, and Thomas Jefferson, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jackie Robinson -- people who have had a transformational effect on who we are."

2011 March 5

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2011 February 21

available on John Muir in the Arts, Collectibles and John Muir in Sculpture:

2011 February 20

available on Bibliographic Resources, Press Releases:

available on Writings of John Muir :

2011 February 13

available on Tributes to John Muir:

2011 February 10

  • Sierra Club Associate Webmaster Adam Kapp completes conversion of web pages of John Muir Exhibit to the new more colorful and usable graphic design using .aspx - thus making the site look much better and removing the problematic frames used on the site forever!

2011 January 18

available on Bibliographic Resources , Film and Video:

  • Added annotation for "Muir - Man Among Giants" feature film by Stone Soup Studios Motion Picture Company LLC and link to their website www.muirmovie.org/

 

2011 January 1

available on Current and Upcoming Events:

  • Upgraded page to new aspx design.
  • Added listing and links for upcoming Nature's Beloved Son traveling exhibition, opening at Bedford Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California on January 9, 2011.
  • Updated listing and links for the Montello Historical Society Year of John Muir in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
  • Added description and links for forthcoming publication of My First Summer in the Sierra: 100th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic by John Muir with Photographs by Scot Miller, Foreword by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.


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