2001 What's New or Improved

2001 December 19

available on Awards Received

Added Arete Site of the Year - 2001

2001 December 16

available on Collectibles

Added link to T-Shirts and Sweatshirts - from Genius T-shirts (offsite link)

available on Places Named after John Muir

Added link to John Muir View - Roadside Historical Marker in Columbia County, Wisconsin (offsite link)

2001 December 7

available on Awards

Added Selected by Librarian's Index to the Internet - "Fantastic"
Miscellaneous corrections and updates throughout the Exhibit

2001 November 24

available on Sculpture

Replaced Photo of Bust of John Muir at John Muir National Historic site, Photo by Krista Kennell

2001 November 17

available on John Muir Day Study Guide

Made numerous corrections, updates, and additions to HTML version of the Study Guide.

2001 November 16

available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Historical and Literary Analyses, and Publisher's Press Releases

Added press release and ordering information for John Muir: A Naturalist in Southern California by Elizabeth Pomeroy

2001 October 21

available on Sound and Music About John Muir - Muir Power to You by Bill Oliver

Added Muir Power to You Quicktime Video Slide Show - 10 MB Download

available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Film and Video

Updated annotation for "The Naturalists: Earth-Planet Universe - John Muir" (This video now available for purchase.)

2001 October 3

available on Awards Received by John Muir Exhibit

Added Mesweet's Silver Award

2001 September 22

available on Collectibles and Sculpture

John Muir Miniature Bust by Impressions Scotland, Ltd.

2001 September 10

Added new feature so links to specific pages on John Muir Exhibit found through an off-site or on-site search engine will open within the header and navigation bar frames. Thanks to Will Easton for writing the javascript and installing this new feature.

2001 September 3

available on Arts, Bibliographic Resources, Music, and Mountain Days: the John Muir Musical

2001 September 2

available on Places Named after John Muir

Added listing for John Muir Drive in San Francisco.
Added listing and links for John Muir Building of Edinburgh University in Edinburgh, Scotland.

2001 August 29

available on Awards Received by the John Muir Exhibit

Added BeeLine WeB Pix Award

2001 August 26

available on People Important to John Muir

Added new links and references to William Keith listing
Added link to John Muir Family Tree - from John Muir National Historic Site on John Muir Genealogy

2001 August 25

available on John Muir National Historic Site

Added front page photo and Photo Gallery by Krista Kennell
Added Historic Photo of Muir-Strentzel Ranch circa 1900 on Historical Photographs.
Updated link to point directly to new Official John Muir National Historic Site website.

available on Writings of John Muir and Favorite John Muir Quotations

Updated quotes and added link to the John Muir National Historic Site Quotes Page, where quotes are arranged alphabetically by subject. (Offsite link)

Available on Current Events

2001 August 3

available on People Important to John Muir

Added short biography of William Kent

2001 July 28

available on John Muir in Sculpture

Statue of John Muir as a boy in Dunbar Scotland
Bust of Muir at John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California
Bust of Muir at Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts in Saratoga, California.

available on 1964 John Muir Stamp and first Day Covers

America the Beautiful 1989 Deer and Waterfall Postcard Combo with John Muir 1964 Stamp

2001 May 15

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir

Added A Conversation with John Muir from World's Work [London, England] Nov. 1906 - a humorous Interview with John Muir covers his travels around the world and adventures on California's Mount Shasta, Arizona's Petrified Forest, and trips to see trees in Siberia, India, Ceylon, and Australia.
Added four new entries for the year 2001 to the Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir

May 10, 2001

available on Bibliographic Resources, Publisher's Press Releases

Added illustrated press release of Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr, Edited by Bonnie Johanna Gisel
Added illustrated press release of John Muir's Last Journey - South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence, by John Muir, edited by Michael P. Branch.
Added illustrated press release of Meditations from John Muir: Nature's Temple, by Chris Highland (2001)

April 28, 2001

available on John Muir Day

Added Governor Gray Davis Proclamation of John Muir Day for April 21, 2001

available on publisher's press release of Cherry Good's book On the Trail of John Muir and on Annotated John Muir Bibliography

Added link to Introduction and Chapter One of On the Trail of John Muirby Cherry Good (offsite link)

available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Book Chapters

Added listing and annotation for Ted Kerasote's essay "Fathers" in Heart of Home (New York: Villard Books/Random House, 1997).

Updated and corrected numerous broken links through out the Exhibit.

April 18, 2001

available on Live Presentations

Added photo of Richard Shore as John Muir, Testimonials, and updated e-mail address for Richard Shore's "John Muir's 1,000 Mile Walk and Other Adventures" .

April 15, 2001

Added links to 390 pages of the Exhibit to the new John Muir Forum, deleting link to old Delphi Forum.

April 1, 2001

available on Collectibles

Added John Muir "This Grand Show" Quote Poster

March 27, 2001

available on Places and Schools Named After John Muir

Added link to John Muir Middle School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

available on Awards Received by the John Muir Exhibit

Added Bigchalk Best Award
Added EDDNET Silver Award

available throughout the John Muir Exhibit

Replaced old URL for Dunbar's John Muir Association on 11 pages of the Exhibit
Corrected numerous dead links throughout the Exhibit

March 18, 2001

available on Scientific Names in Honor of John Muir

Added Muirite: A barium mineral from Fresno County, California, Photo and text by John T. Alfors and Melvin C. Stinson

available on Related Resources

Added Link to In John Muir's Footsteps by Don Harness - newspaper article series about John Muir's grandsons Ross Hanna and John Hanna, Muir enthusiast Graham White, and California natural and historic parks related to John Muir, including Yosemite and the John Muir National Historic Site.

March 10, 2001

available on John Muir Bibliography, Historical and Literary Analyses and Music

Added annotation for Carrol, Theresa, John Muir Sings: A Collection of Scottish Airs Sung by the Naturalist. Illustrated by Nancy Carrol (1978).

March 9, 2001

available on News and Upcoming Events and Arts

Added Exhibition Opening Press Release - A Tale of Two Scots: Historic California Collection Reunites John Muir and William Keith

available on Places and Schools Named After John Muir

Added description and link for Bronx, New York City John Muir Nature Trail - a feature of Van Cortlandt Park.

2001 February 7

available on Awards Received by the John Muir Exhibit

Added Krista's Korner Bronze Award

available on What's New and Improved

Moved "What's New" for 2000 to a separate page.

2001 February 1

available on News and Upcoming Events and Mountain Days - the John Muir Musical

Added announcement: Mountain Days - the John Muir Musical will be playing at the Martinez Marina July 13-16 and July 19-23, 2001.

2001 January 30

available on Awards Received by the John Muir Exhibit

Added Kokopelli Bronze Award

2001 January 28

available on Home Page Navigation Bar and on Pictures

Added new feature - Arts page with new sub-categories (deleting and replacing old Art Portraits of John Muir:

available on Collectibles, Pictures and Drawing, Sketches and Decorative Arts

Added John Muir Coffee Cup
Added John Muir House Mini-Mansion Model

available on Pictures and Drawing, Sketches and Decorative Arts

Added Color Sketch of John Muir at Glacier Point

available on Paintings of John Muir

Added Painting of Statue of John Muir - Dunbar High Street by Paul Craven

available on Arts and Film and Video of John Muir

Added page for Dominion, proposed motion picture based on the life of John Muir

2001 January 25

available on Home Page

Restored Guestbook

available on Awards Received by the John Muir Exhibit

Added Perfect Vision Bronze Award

2001 January 24

available on on Website Resources, the Alphabetical Index, the Home Page navigation bar and introduction, Writings, and Favorite Quotations.

Added new Search function, which searches only the John Muir Exhibit instead of the entire Sierra Club website

2001 January 23

available on 1964 U.S. Postage Stamp and First Day Covers

Added Magnet with 194 John Muir stamp and Muir's "Clearest Way into the Universe" Quote

available on Photographs of John Muir

Added Photo of John Muir in the Big Arroyo Camp, Kern Canyon, 1908, Photo by Walter L. Huber

available on Awards Received by the John Muir Exhibit

Added Common Sense Silver Advocacy Award

2001 January 22

available on Awards Received by the John Muir Exhibit

Added Arete Gold Wave Award

2001 January 21

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir

Added Muir Lodge - An Appreciation by Mary Frances Kellogg
Added Sierra Club Bulletin, John Muir Memorial Number (January, 1916)

available on Bibliographic Resources, Book Reviews

2001 January 20

Updated broken or framed links generally on multiple pages.

2001 January 18

Updated links to new website for John Muir Memorial Association globally

2001 January 17

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir

Added To Higher Sierras by William Frederic Badè
Added links to the Full Text of each 1916 Sierra Club Bulletin essay from Tributes to John Muir by Those Who Knew Him page.

2001 January 16

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir

Added John Muir by Robert B. Marshall
Added John Muir by Enos Mills
Added An Appreciation by Harriet Monroe

2001 January 10

available on John Muir National Historic Site

Updated description and links

2001 January 7

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir

Added John Muir by Charles Sprague Sargent
Added John Muir by Henry Fairfield Osborn
Added Muir of the Mountains by Alexander McAdie

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

Added annotation on Environmental Pioneers by Patricia Byrnes

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