National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 247 | The Search for WPA Park Posters

By Jess Repanshek - November 5th, 2023

When a young park ranger was asked by his supervisor to clean out an old barn at Grand Teton National Park in the early 1970s, he discovered a dusty and stained blue, grey, and green poster inviting folks to “Meet the Ranger Naturalist at Jenny Lake Museum". This young ranger, Doug Leen, soon discovered that it was one in a series of posters created by the Works Progress Administration to put artists to work and promote visitation to the national parks during the late 1930s.
This week the Traveler’s Lynn Riddick sits down with Doug to discuss his newly released book documenting his life-long journey to find the original WPA posters and protect them.

0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
0:43 Escalante - Tim Heintz - The Sounds of Peaks, Plateaus and Canyons
1:03 Xplorer Maps
1:24 Washington’s National Park Fund
1:56 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
2:21 The Search for WPA Park Posters
15:51 Almost Home - Randy Peteresen - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
16:01 NPT Promo
16:13 Great Smoky Mountains Association
16:34 Friends of Acadia
17:00 Potrero Group
17:31 The Search for WPA Park Posters Continues
33:30 Whispering Winds - Grant Geissman - Sounds of the Caribbean
33:42 Interior Federal Credit Union
34:18 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
34:46 The Everglades Foundation
34:58 Yosemite Conservancy
35:23 The Search for WPA Park Posters Continues
43:40 Wabanaki - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
44:34 Episode Closing
44:55 Orange Tree Productions
45:27 Splitbeard Productions
45:38 National Parks Traveler footer

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