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Considering Tourism

Considering Tourism

byThomas S. Bremer

At many tourist sites, authenticity reigns as the holy grail of the religious quest, a sacred commodity positioned to seduce touristic desires.

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The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

byThomas S. Bremer

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is unlike any other canyon in color, charm, in picturesque calendar-ready beauty, wild and frightening.

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Morning on the Riverwalk along the San Antonio River

Morning on the Riverwalk along the San Antonio River

byThomas S. Bremer

I greet the day with delight in the cool air of dawn. I am happily surprised to find a sliver of solitude along the San Antonio riverwalk.

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Trekking through the Yellowstone “Museum of Wonders”

Trekking through the Yellowstone “Museum of Wonders”

byThomas S. Bremer

Wonder-Land Illustrated by Harry J. Norton, published in 1873, was one of the first tourbooks recounting the Yellowstone experience for a general audience.

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Warren Angus Ferris, Yellowstone’s first tourist

Warren Angus Ferris, Yellowstone’s first tourist

byThomas S. Bremer

Warren Angus Ferris visited Yellowstone in 1834 as the first tourist to experience the thermal features, and the first person known to use the Icelandic word “geyser” to describe them.

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The spiritual experience of nature in the national parks

The spiritual experience of nature in the national parks

byThomas S. Bremer

The National Park Service’s management of nature offers America’s wild places as contrived experiences to meet the spiritual expectations of the consumer public.

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The Calvinist roots of appreciating Acadia’s scenery

The Calvinist roots of appreciating Acadia’s scenery

byThomas S. Bremer

Visitors who delight in nature and stunning scenery at places like Acadia National Park often do not realize their aesthetic debt to Protestant reformer and theologian John Calvin.

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At River’s Edge Beneath a Wall of Yellow Stone

At River’s Edge Beneath a Wall of Yellow Stone

byThomas S. Bremer

The land is philosopher. It teaches through patient being that knowing is as futile and useless as believing. Things are, circumstances unfold and collapse, and reality persists.

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The Carriage Roads of Acadia National Park

The Carriage Roads of Acadia National Park

byThomas S. Bremer

Acadia National Park has become infested with an epidemic of automobiles, but many visitors escape the traffic on the refurbished carriage roads where they can enjoy the park by equine-powered carriages, on foot or bicycle.

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Cars in the parks: a blessing and a curse

Cars in the parks: a blessing and a curse

byThomas S. Bremer

Cars have been both a blessing and a curse for national parks. They are how most of us get to the places we love, but they also hurt the places we love.

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Going into nature to become undisguised and naked

Going into nature to become undisguised and naked

byThomas S. Bremer

Nature allows us to be undisguised and naked, without judging us or demanding that we be something other than the vulnerable, frightened animals that we are.

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Deer in the City

Deer in the City

byThomas S. Bremer

Deer in the city are not so rare. Nor are coyotes, rabbits, squirrels, even the occasional fox. But wildness, even in its most positive romantic conceptions, usually ends up being about us.

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