the john muir exhibit - new_and_improved - 2005
2005 What's New or Improved
2005 December 31
Updated home page to announce the NOTABLE UPCOMING EVENT :
March 31 - April 1, 2006 - 2006 John Muir Conference at
the Stockton campus of University of the Pacific
on the topic: "John Muir in Global Perspective," replacing the
year-long coverage of the John Muir design of the California
State Quarter.
2005 December 13
available on Upcoming Events
2005 November 24
available on Places Named After
John Muir
- Added new entry for John Muir Ecological Park in Yulee, Florida.
2005 October 30
available on Songs About John
Muir
2005 September 30
available on Related Resources on the Internet
- Added link on the "Environmental History" section to The
Military and Yosemite by David A. Smith, Historian, San Jose State
University, California State Military Museum
2005 September 5
available on Songs Inspired by
John Muir, Annotated
John Muir Bibliography, Music, and Bill Oliver-related pages:
- Added link to Hooray
for Hetch Hetchy, the latest song inspired by John Muir, written and
performed by Bill Oliver, a recollection of Hetch Hetchy as it was
in John Muir's day, and a prognosis for how it could be so again.
2005 September 4
available on Upcoming Events Related
to John Muir, Annotated
John Muir Bibliography, Historical and Literary Analyses, Publisher's
Press Releases, and John Muir Programs
at University of the Pacific,
John Muir Center, and John
Muir in Global Perspective Conference (2006).
2005 August 13
available on Places and Schools Named After John Muir
- Added listings for "John Muir Room" at various government buildings, bed
and breakfast inns, hotels, and restaurants around the United States.
2005 July 10
available on Photographs and Historic
Photographs from Sierra Club Colby Library:
2005 July 9
available on Bibliographic
Resources, Annotated
Bibliography, Biographies:
- Added annotation for John Muir : Magnificent Tramp (American
Heroes) by Rod Miller (2005)
2005 June 25
available on Bibliographic
Resources, Annotated Bibliography, Film and Video:
- Added annotated listings for videos of Huell Howser's "John Muir" from
his California's
Gold television series, and his "John Muir Home" program from his California's
Golden Parks" series.
2005 June 21
available on Upcoming Events, University
of the Pacific John Muir Programs, and John
Muir Center
- Added link for Upcoming John Muir Conference:
- March 31 - April 1, 2006 - Announcement
and Call for Papers for 2006 John Muir Conference - University
of the Pacific's John Muir Center will host a conference at the
Stockton campus of University of the Pacific on March 31-April
1, 2006. The focus of the 2006 California History Institute will
be "John Muir in Global Perspective."
2005 June 19
available on Life and Contributions and Selected
Passages
- Added A Parable of Sauntering by
Albert W. Palmer - Including a conversation with John Muir showing how
Muir hated "hiking" - both the word and the thing (excerpted from The
Mountain Trail and Its Message (1911) .
2005 June 3
available on Places Named After
John Muir:
- Added the Cherokee
National Forest locations for the "John Muir Trail" instead of just the
Big South Fork National River locations.
- Added John Muir Park: 816 High St. to listing for Modesto, California.
2005 May 15
available on John Muir
Study Guide:
- Updated Sierra Club Sacramento address for ordering a hard copy of the
booklet version of the Study Guide.
2005 April 18
available on Related Resources, News
& Upcoming Events, and Writings of John
Muir
- Added link to Original
manuscript letters of John Muir, 1861-1914, Wisconsin Historical Society
(off-site link)
These 30 letters, totaling more than 100 pages, were written by Muir to five
correspondents. Twenty are to his old friend Emily Pelton, with whose family
he boarded in Prairie du Chien in 1860-61, or to her aunt Frances. Four other
letters are to childhood friends from Wisconsin, James Whitehead and Milton Griswold.
A few other letters of a routine business nature are also included. All but six
of the letters have never been previously published in their entirety (though
typed copies of most were included in Muir's manuscripts at the University of
the Pacific).
- Created new Letters section
for Writings
of John Muir to link to the
above, and existing pages containing letters.
2005 March 19
available on Chronology of the Life
and Legacy of John Muir:
- Added to 1931 entry a poem about John Muir Tree at Oakland's
Joaquin Miller Park
- Added four events for 2005
available on California State Quarter,
Collectibles, 1964
U.S. Postage Stamp:
available on Related Resources:
2005 February 12
available on California State Quarter Links:
2005 February 11
available on California State Quarter Links:
2005 February 10
available on California State Quarter Links:
2005 February 6
available on California State Quarter Links:
- Added link to Muir
and the U.S. Mint: New quarter features him; kin get first coins
By Don Harness The Reporter (Vacaville, California, February 2,
2005)
Local descendants of naturalist John Muir were still talking Tuesday about
their meeting with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a day earlier, when they were
among the first recipients of the nation's new California quarter....
- Added link to Paying
Flip Service: California puts John Muir on its official quarter
Grist Magazine (February 2, 2005)
"Muir lit the torch of conservation in our state," said the governor,
whose environmental record, while not perfect, shines in comparison to many of
his fellow party members in Washington, D.C., where the torch of conservation
is, shall we say, sputtering...." more...
- Added link to New
quarter celebrates Muir, conservation: California Gov. Schwarzenegger
chose final design
Coin collectors and history buffs lined up to be among the first to get a new
quarter commemorating the Golden State’s history, featuring the likeness
of John Muir, his beloved Yosemite and a California condor. (MSNBC News,
February 1, 2005)
available on Arts, Current
and Upcoming Events, and Muir
Genealogy:
2005 January 31
available on California State Quarter:
available on California State Quarter , Links :
2005 January 30
available on California State Quarter:
available on California State Quarter , Links :
- Added link to John
Muir on California's quarter
Naturalist, Yosemite, condor are depicted on coin debuting Monday
By Michelle Maitre, Tri-Valley Herald (January 30, 2005)
2005 January 29
available on California State Quarter , Links :
available on Upcoming Events Related to John Muir
2005 January 26
available on California State Quarter:
2005 January 12
available on California State Quarter and John
Muir 1964 Postage Stamp and
First Day Covers:
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