2006 What's New or Improved

2006 December 16

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

Added listing for : John Muir Suite:
Hymn to the Wilderness (iTunes link)
A Mountaineer's Prayer (iTunes link)

available on People Around the USA Inspired by John Muir

Added David Acuff

2006 December 15

available on Living People Influenced by John Muir

Added new section: People Around the USA Inspired by John Muir with an inaugral list of five people: John Phillips, Robert Morgan, Gregory Reis, Timothy Farley, and Elizabeth Wasserman.

2006 December 12

available on Living People Influenced by John Muir

Added Peter and Donna Thomas
Updated entry and added photo portrait for Barbara Mossberg

2006 December 3

Made miscellaneous updates and additions to History Day (adding primary sources), Bibliography, Periodicals, Sculpture, and Favorite Quotations.

2006 November 25

Added new feature: People Important to John Muir, with more than 90 brief illustrated biographical profiles, including:

available on Film and Video, John Muir Bibliography.

Added listings for "A Glorious Journey" by National Park Service, and "Giants in the Wilderness," by Genevieve Cora Fraser.

available on Book Jacket Summaries

Added John Muir: Family, Friends and Adventures, Edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison

2006 November 21

available on Books , Writings of John Muir

Added link to The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Edition (1916, Houghton Mifflin) - Digital Facsimile edition by University of Georgia Libraries (off-site link)

available on John Muir Newsletter

Added listing for Vol. 16, No. 2 & 3, Spring/Summer 2006.

2006 October 29

available on Home Page

Added cartoon image and text about John Muir's Heavenly Award

2006 October 2

available on Home Page banner, John Muir National Historic Site, Pictures and Images, Photographs of John Muir, and Alphabetical list

Added link to Museum Collections at John Muir National Historic Site - National Park Service - photographs include portraits of Muir and his family, his Martinez ranch house and orchards, personal belongings, and specimens that he collected.

2006 August 31

available on Place Names

Added listing for Fontana - Muir Street (Village of Heritage)

2006 August 23

available on John Muir California State Quarter :

Added page for G and M Farms 2005 Corn Maze
Added link to Historic Cobb Ranch 2006 Corn Maze

2006 August 18

available on Places and Schools Named After John Muir :

Added entry for Ashland, Oregon, for new John Muir School - In the fall of 2006, the new John Muir School of the Ashland School District will open its doors for the first time. Located on the north wing of Ashland Middle School, John Muir will be a science and art magnet school serving children in kindergarten through eighth grade.

available on Places Important to John Muir :

Added link to Observatory Hill - Sauntering in the Footsteps of John Muir by Dennis McCann (offsite link) Now a State Natural Area, Observatory Hill was one of John Muir's boyhood haunts.

available on Organizations :

Added entry for John Muir Academy - A Wisconsin teacher-in service and training program, held annually, that promotes problem solving, development of higher lever and creative thinking skills and experiential learning in math, science, technology, and other areas. the Academy was named for Muir not only because of the Wisconsin connection but also because of the similarities between Muir's experiential education and the mission of the John Muir Academy.

2006 August 2

available on Tributes, Annotated Chronology, and Home Page:

Added John Muir Inducted in New California Hall of Fame

2006 July 15

available on John Muir Newsletter

Added links for PDFs for Volumes 12 -16 - Spring, 2002 through Fall, 2005 to the Contents page.

2006 July 3

available on John Muir Newsletter

Added entries for Volumes 15 and 16 to the Contents page.

2006 July 2

available on Tributes, Place Names, and Home Page:

Added Minor Planet Named for John Muir (2006) - This 1-mile diameter celestial body, now named "Johnmuir" is Solar System object number 2004PX42. It was named by its discoverer, amateur astronomer R.E. Jones, in honor of our pioneer conservationist.

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

Added entry for Richard Cowan's "Winds," a 25 minute piece for small orchestra and solo tenor, a quasi-operatic role that has John Muir as narrator in Muir's beautiful text A Wind Storm in the Forest.
In this orchestral - operatic work we follow Muir noticing the budding windstorm in a friend's log cabin, his climb up the mountain, shimmying up the tree, enjoying the colors, scents and rhythms of the wind storm, and the slow descent in the evening, as the storm dies away. The world premiere of this operatic work will take place in July 2006 in France, on Belle Ile en Mer, off the Coast of Brittany, as part of the Lyrique in Mer Festival, the largest opera festival in Western France.

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir and John Muir Newsletter :

Added Radical Transcendentalism: Emerson, Muir and the Experience of Nature by James Brannon

2006 April 23

available on Tributes:

Added entry for John Muir as an Inductee in the Hall of Great Westerners (2006), National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

2006 April 15

available on Life and Contributions to John Muir

Added PDF version of John Muir Fact Sheet in Spanish

available on Important Places to John Muir and Places and Schools Named After John Muir :

John Muir Historical Marker at Epping Lookout, Bruce Trail, near Meaford, Ontario, Canada

available on Geography and Tributes:

Added new feature: Re-Tracing John Muir's Famous Walks.

available on Live Presentations:

Added link for recent presenters at past John Muir Conferences.

2006 April 8

available on Bibliographic Resources , John Muir Bibliography, Photo and Gift Books, and Book Press Releases:

Added annotation listing and press release with cover image for: Bonnie Johanna Gisel, Nature Journal with John Muir (Madera, CA, Poetic Matrix Press, 2006)

2006 April 7

available on Home page, and Annotated Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir.

Added Peter and Donna Thomas' Retracing John Muir's 1868 Walk from San Francisco to Yosemite.

2006 April 6

available on Home page, John Muir Center, and Annotated Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir.

Added Program with Speakers of 2006 John Muir in Global Perspective Conference at University of the Pacific

2006 March 19

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

Added listing and cover image for: Lasky, Kathryn, John Muir: America's First Environmentalist (Candlewick Press, 2006) Illustrations by Stan Fellows; 48 pages,
ages 4 to 8.

2006 March 9

available on Places Important to John Muir:

Added link to John Muir In Kansas City by David Anderson, Sierra Club Thomas Hart Benton Group Chair

2006 March 1

available on Places and Schools Named After John Muir :

Added to entry for Modesto: John Muir Hall, Modesto Junior College, West Campus, 2201 Blue Gum Avenue.
Added to entry for Modesto: Muir Road

2006 February 26

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir:

Added John Muir's Menu by J. Parker Huber, Sierra (Vol. 79, Issue 6, p. 66, Nov/Dec 1994.)

2006 February 19

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir:

Added entry under "Muir's Philosophy" : "John Muir and the Modern Passion for Nature" by Dr. Donald Worster, featured as the Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History for 2004 (off-site link).

2006 January 24

available on Places Named After John Muir

Added new entry for Muir Valley in Wolfe County, Kentucky.

available on Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Anthologies

Added listing for Essential Muir: A Selection of John Muir's Best Writings. Edited with an Introduction by Fred White. (Heyday Books, April 1, 2006).

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