Brown Bag Lecture: Stephen Mather Travels to the National Parks

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Lecture

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Adults
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Chicago actor RJ Lindsey portrays Stephen T. Mather, the founding director of the National Park Service, who narrates a Keynote slide presentation relating the dramatic story of saving America's natural wonders from congressional neglect, ruthless loggers, and greedy developers. Along the way, he will share stories of Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, naturalist John Muir, and F. O. Stanley of the Stanley Steamer auto. *Registration required  

This program will be presented via livestream both at 95th Street Library and via Zoom. Register through Zoom directly. The Zoom link will be sent automatically once registration has been completed.  

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