THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA | Automobiles | PBS

Posted: July 22nd, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Parks And Campgrounds | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments »


www.pbs.org Author Bill Cronon discusses the impact that cars had on family vacations taken in the parks in the 1950s in this clip from Ken Burns’s newest film, THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, premiering Sunday-Friday, September 27-October 2, 2009, at 8 pm ET/PT. For more information on the film, visit www.pbs.org

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2 Comments on “THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA | Automobiles | PBS”

  1. 1 MrKippers22 said at 1:26 pm on July 22nd, 2010:

    National Parks are a British idea.

    Even public parks are British. Central park in New York was inspired by Birkenhead Park in England.

  2. 2 dhudezkhy said at 2:26 pm on July 22nd, 2010:

    cool

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