the john muir exhibit - new_and_improved - 1998

What's New or Improved in 1998

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1998 December 27

available on Life of John Muir:

• Added John Muir and the Alaska Book by Marion Randall Parsons

1998 November 22

• Added New Feature: John Muir Genealogy - Ancestors, Siblings, Spouse, and Descendants

1998 November 9

available on John Muir Collectibles :

• Added Fleetwood 1998 First Day of Issue Cover
• Added Fleetwood 1964 First Day of Issue Cover

1998 November 2

1998 October 26

available on Educational Resources :

• Added Thank You, John Muir! Poster Contest for 4th Grade
• Added Poster Contest 1999 Entry Form
• Added 1998 Poster Contest Quotation Category First Place Winner
• Added 1998 Poster Contest Achievement Category First Place Winner

available on Portraits in Art and Collectibles:

• Added Poster by Art Smith

available on Book Reviews :

• Added Stickeen by John Muir, Reviewed by William Frederic Badè

1998 September 6

available on portraits in Art :

• Added John Muir Tryptych by Tom Fitzwater, Sculptor
• Added Link to Note card by Nancy Middendorf
• Added link to Poster by Larry Winborg
• Repaired miscellaneous broken links on Bibliography-Internet Resources, Bill Hunt's Review of Letters from Alaska, Questions and Answers, and Celebrating John Muir Day.

1998 August 28

available on John Muir Collectibles :

• Added Note card by Nancy Middendorf
• Added Poster by Larry Winborg

available on John Muir Gravesite :

• Added Link to American Land Conservancy's John Muir Gravesite Page

1998 August 25

available on the home page and Educational Resources :

• New Feature: Added Student Page

available on Educational Resources :

• Added History Day Projects
• Added John Muir Youth Award Introduction
• Added John Muir Youth Award Self-Guided Assessment
• Added John Muir Youth Award Interest Form
• Added John Muir Youth Award Wilderness Teaching Resources

1998 August 19

available on The View from John Muir's Window :

• Added December, 1997 Issue
• Added "Noteworthy Articles" section, including :
  • John Muir and the 1906 Antiquities Act by David Blackburn (November, 1996)
  • Louis L. Stein's Legacy by Pat Thomas (March, 1997)
  • John Muir as Fellow Human Being by P.J. Ryan (June, 1974)

1998 July 2

available on Writings of John Muir , Places Important to John Muir (Canada) , and Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir :

• Added The Calypso Borealis by John Muir, excerpted from The Life and Letters of John Muir.

available on Photographs of John Muir :

• Added John Muir Among the Pines

available on People Important to John Muir :

• Added John Burroughs
• Added new text and link for Enos Mills

available on John Muir Bibliography, Music Section

• Added annotation for Range of Light by Sasha Matson.

available on Current Events and on Places Important to John Muir:

• Fundraising Campaign Launched to Save John Muir's Birthplace in Dunbar, Scotland

1998 June 22

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir :

• Deleted
• Fact Sheet on John Muir, by the Sierra Club and replaced it with John Muir: A Brief Biography , adding a photo of Muir and new and corrected links in the text.

1998 June 21

available on Songs about John Muir :

• Added Range of Light by Sasha Matson (offsite link)

1998 June 17

available on John Muir Exhibit Home Page :

• Added Liberty Ship John Muir

1998 May 23

available on John Muir Exhibit Home Page :

• Revised About the Exhibit and added Acknowledgments
• Added John Muir Education Project

available on Educational Resources :

• Added John Muir Education Project

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir :

• Updated 1997 and 1998 listings and added links on Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir

available on The Boyhood of John Muir :

• Added new television performances for Boyhood of John Muir film Upcoming Screenings

1998 April 19

available on Writings of John Muir :

• Added Travels in Alaska by John Muir, complete book arranged by chapter

available on Places Important to John Muir :

• Added additional items to Alaska links
• Added additional items to Oregon links
• Added Washington State links

1998 April 13

available on Bibliographic Resources, Press Releases :

• Added Walking with Muir across Yosemite by Thomas R. Vale and Geraldine R. Vale - University of Wisconsin Press Release (offsite link)

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir :

• added "In Yosemite with John Muir" by President Theodore Roosevelt

available on Educational Resources and Events :

• Added Napa County John Muir Poster and Essay Contest

available on John Muir Memorial Association :

• Annual Meeting and Dinner of John Muir Memorial Association, April 21, 1998 - Presentation of annual JMMA Conservation Award, and featuring a slide-lecture by Maymie Kimes on "Seeing Alaska in the words of John Muir."

available on John Muir Bibliography :

• Updated Periodicals and Notable Recent Articles from Periodicals
• Updated Internet Resources

1998 March 31

available on Writings of John Muir :

• Added sketches by John Muir to My First Summer in the Sierra
• Added Letters to a Friend , by John Muir, complete text arranged by chapter
• Added Studies in the Sierra by John Muir, complete text arranged by chapter

1998 March 29

New Feature :

• John Muir Collectibles
  • 1998 Postage Stamp
  • 1964 Postage Stamp
  • Martinez Chamber of Commerce John Muir Commemorative Medal
  • 150th Anniversary Year John Muir Medallion
  • John Muir Polo and T-Shirts
  • John Muir Bookmarks

available on People Important to John Muir :

• Added Edmond S. Meany
• Added Gifford Pinchot
• Added William Gladstone Steel
• Added Philemon Beecher Van Trump

available on John Muir Bibliography, Anthologies, and on Book Jackets :

• Updated entry for republication of Mountaineering Essays by John Muir, Edited and introduced by Richard Fleck. A book jacket summary is available.

1998 March 8

available on Writings of John Muir :

• Renamed and added introduction and some citations to Favorite Quotations.

available on John Muir Newsletter :

• Jeanne Carr on Shasta
• Following Muir's First Summer Route by John Fiske
• The Muir Family in Arizona by Lilian Whitting
• New Muir Association in Scotland
• Zen Buddhism in John Muir by Michelle L. Dwyer

available on Bibliographic Resources, under Book Reviews :

• John Muir in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations compiled and edited by Peter Browning, reviewed by Harold W. Wood, Jr.

1998 February 17

available on Bibliographic Resources :

• Rearranged to provide new categories and documents for:
  • Book Jackets
    • Added John Muir: Nature Writings - The Library of America - selected by William Cronon
    • Added John Muir's America by Dewitt Jones and T. H. Watkins
  • Book Reviews
  • Book Press Releases

1998 January 24

available on John Muir Memorial Association :

• Added Thank You, John Muir Capital Campaign Fund Project Overview
• Added More details on the Capital Campaign Fund
• Added A visualization of the proposed Visitor and Education Center in the Year 2000
• Added Thank You, John Muir Capital Campaign Pledge Form

1998 January 4

available on Bibliographic Resources :

• Added John Muir's Longest Walk: John Earl, a Photographer, Traces His Journey to Florida by John Earl (dust jacket)
• Added The Mountain Trail and its Message by Albert W. Palmer, with commentary by Charles P. Fisk (1995 reprint of the 1911 edition) - Press Release

1998 January 3

New Feature! Added Guestbook to John Muir Exhibit home page.

available on Photographs of Muir :

• Added Photograph of John Muir at Mirror Lake in Yosemite, with two size options.

available on Contemporary Photographs of the John Muir National Historic Site

• Added a photograph of the Historical Landmark Plaque for the John Muir Home.

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