National Park Service Oral History

Anne and Scott Warner share their stories as seasonal park rangers who began mid-life careers with the National Park Ser... Read more

What's it like to grow up in a national park? Retired NPS superintendent Bill Wade will tell you.

In 1988 Ed Rizzotto began working at Gateway National Recreation Area in New York City. During his seven years at Gatewa... Read more

How do you build a successful career in the National Park Service? In this installment of Centennial Voices, Wendy Lauri... Read more

Diane and Dan Moses share what it was like to raise two daughters while living and working in the national parks. Listen... Read more

J.D. Swed shares some of his experiences as a search and rescue ranger in the parks. He discusses how he learned to deal... Read more

In the 1970s Laurel Munson Boyers was among a pioneering generation of women who assumed new roles in the National Park ... Read more

John Reynolds tells us what it was like to grow up in our national parks as the son of a park ranger. Listen as he share... Read more

In this segment of "Centennial Voices," we hear how a disciplined mentor and a balky horse teach a seasonal National Par... Read more

In this episode, Bill Wade describes how he had to bend the rules to safeguard resources when he was superintendent of S... Read more