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Interpreting Our Heritage

ISBN: 9780807858677 | 0807858676

Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Pub. Date: 3/18/2008

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Summary Table of Contents

Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as "interpretation." For fifty years, Freeman Tilden's "Interpreting Our Heritage" has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for developing and delivering interpretive programs. This expanded and revised anniversary edition incl... MOREudes not only Tilden's classic work but also an entirely new selection of accompanying photographs, five additional essays by Tilden on the art and craft of interpretation, a new foreword by former National Park Service director Russell Dickenson, and an introduction by R. Bruce Craig that puts Tilden's writings into perspective for present and future generations. Whether the challenge is to make a prehistoric site come to life; to explain the geological basis behind a particular rock formation; to touch the hearts and minds of visitors to battlefields, historic homes, and sites; or to teach a child about the wonders of the natural world, Tilden's book, with its explanation of the famed "six principles" of interpretation, provides a guiding hand. For anyone interested in our natural and historic heritage-park volunteers and rangers, museum docents and educators, new and seasoned professional heritage interpreters, and those lovingly characterized by Tilden as "happy amateurs"-"Interpreting Our Heritage" and Tilden's later interpretive writings, included in this edition, collectively provide the essential foundation for bringinginto focus the truths that lie beyond what the eye sees.

For fifty years, Interpreting Our Heritage has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for and who respond to interpretive materials at national parks and monuments. This anniversary edition includes an entirely new selection of photographs, six additional essays by Freeman Tilden, and a new foreword and introduction that put this classic work into perspective for present and future generations. Whether the problem is to make a prehistoric site come to life or to explain the geological theory behind a particular rock formation, Tilden provides helpful principles to follow.

Now updated and expanded, this classic source for cultural interpreters provides guidance for exploring educational and recreational resources. This edition includes new photos, six additional essays by Tilden, and a new Foreword and Introduction.

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction to the Fourth Edition	p. 1

Principles of Interpretation	p. 25
The Visitor's First Interest	p. 36
Raw Material and Its Product	p. 44
The Story's the Thing	p. 53
Not Instruction but Provocation	p. 59
Toward a Perfect Whole	p. 68
For t... MOREhe Younger Mind	p. 76

The Written Word	p. 89
Past into Present	p. 101
Nothing in Excess	p. 112
The Mystery of Beauty	p. 119
The Priceless Ingredient	p. 126
Of Gadgetry	p. 133
The Happy Amateur	p. 138
Vistas of Beauty	p. 148
Freeman Tilden's Later Interpretive Writings
Mindsight: The Aim of Interpretation	p. 161
That Elderly Schoolma'am: Nature	p. 166
The Constructive Aspect of Inaction	p. 174
Two Concord Men in a Boat	p. 182
An Interpretive Ideal	p. 187
Index	p. 201
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