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L.L Bean.com. Be an outsider. On Thursday March 31st, the oldest working National Park Service Ranger, Betty Reed Soskin, retired after

a decade and a half of sharing her personal experiences and the efforts of women from diverse backgrounds who worked on the World War II home front.

Betty Reed Soskin is 100 years old.

I'm Jason Epperson and today on America's National Parks, Betty Reed

Saskin speaks to an audience at the Rosie the River Viser Education Center.

Betty introduces the main park film Home Front Heroes which will not play here but you can

find on the internet we'll link to it in the description for this episode but

you'll hear her introduction and her conclusion which are quite lengthy and the thrust of the

presentation. Here's Betty Reed Soskin. For those of you who are accustomed to visiting National Parks, you of course know that every

National Park has an orientation film and if it's one of the scenic

wonders like Grand Canyon or Yosemite or Yellowstone what you'll get in that film will be

the geological facts about that park.

And you can do that pretty well in 15 or 20 minutes.

It works.

And then we have the parks that have created in honor of individuals.

On the Capitol Mall, this George Washington and Thomas Jefferson

and Dr. Marcus of King and out in this area, John Muir, the environmentalist, and then

Danville, Eugene O'Neill will playwright. And in those cases what you get

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