Island Park Wins Award

Each year the National Park Service gives out awards to projects that help people understand the country’s parks. One of this year’s winners is a book about Isle Royale – a National Park in the middle of Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Tamar Charney reports:

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Each year the National Park Service gives out awards to projects that help people understand the country’s parks. One of this year’s winners is a book about Isle Royale – a National Park in the middle of Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Tamar Charney reports:

More people visit Yellowstone National Park in a week than visit Isle Royale National Park in a year. Each year some of those visitors are artists participating in the park’s artist-in-residence program. They stay on the Island for about 2 weeks, take pictures, paint, sketch, or write songs and poetry about the park. A book called “The Island Within Us” features work by these artists. Jill Burkland is the executive director of the Isle Royale Natural History Association. The association put the book together.

“Not very many, not very many people ever go to Isle Royale so this is a way of sharing the island with people who can’t necessarily go or don’t plan to go.”

“The Island Within Us” has tied with a book about the Grand Canyon for best general book in the National Park Services Excellence in Interpretive Media Awards. For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I’m Tamar Charney.

Musician Harmonizes With Nature

Music has often imitated nature. Flutes trill to sound like birds.
Cymbals crash and drums thunder like storms. One musician has taken it
a step further and harmonizes with nature. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium’s Lester Graham reports on an artist whose life-long pursuit
has been a musical communion with the earth and its creatures: