Acadia National Park, including St. Croix Island International Historic Site, utilized $202,950 in Eastern National (the parent of America’s National Parks) donations to hire seasonal staff and interns, purchase publications and signage, and plan and design tactile orientation maps to benefit visually impaired visitors. Additional funds supported the Artist-in-Residence program at Acadia National Park. Since 1993, this program has invited five accomplished and emerging artists to create new and interesting ways for visitors to experience parks through the arts. During residency, participants lead an outreach activity for park visitors and complete a finished work of art for public viewing online and in the park’s gallery spaces.
A “Dark and Bloody” Path of Resistance: The Chickamauga Cherokee
After the Seven Years War, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, restricting colonists from encroaching on Native American lands west of Appalachia. The decree was largely ignored. Then, in 1774, a land speculator coerced the Cherokee to part with 20...
