In this week’s podcast we thought we’d take a break from the unsettling news happening in and around our national parks and federal lands regarding park staff reductions and threats of reducing park boundaries to make way for mining.
Instead, the Traveler’s Lynn Riddick catches up with a former scientist who’s now a comedian to hear about his experiences during his artist-in-residency program at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island of Hawaii. Selected for the residency by the National Parks Arts Foundation, Ben Miller spent a month with park staff and scientists to absorb as much as possible about Hawaiian culture, landscapes and history. The end result was a comedy routine designed specifically for Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.
0:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
0:12 Episode Intro with Kurt Repanshek
0:50 Beyond the Reef - Tim Heintz & Grant Geissman - Seascapes: A Musical Journey
1:07 Friends of Acadia
1:30 Washington National Park Foundation
1:53 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
2:13 Smokies Life
2:35 NPT Promo
2:52 Episode 317 - A Little Volcanic Levity
36:29 Whispering Winds - Grant Geissman - Sounds of the Caribbean
37:23 Episode Closing
38:13 Orange Tree Productions
38:45 Splitbeard Productions
38:57 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Jess Repanshek - March 16th, 2025 7:00am
