Interpreting Our Heritage

Name: Interpreting Our Heritage
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ISBN: 9780807858677

ISBN-10: 0807858676

ISBN-13: 9780807858677

Edition: 4th 2008

Authors: Freeman Tilden, Russell E. Dickenson, Mary Bomar, R. Bruce Craig

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Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as "interpretation." For fifty years, Freeman Tilden's "Interpreting Our Heritage" has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for developing and delivering interpretive programs. This expanded and revised anniversary edition includes not only Tilden's classic work but also an entirely new selection of accompanying photographs, five additional essays by Tilden on the art and…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.572



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction to the Fourth Edition






Principles of Interpretation



The Visitor's First Interest



Raw Material and Its Product



The Story's the Thing



Not Instruction but Provocation



Toward a Perfect Whole



For the Younger Mind






The Written Word



Past into Present



Nothing in Excess



The Mystery of Beauty



The Priceless Ingredient



Of Gadgetry



The Happy Amateur



Vistas of Beauty



Freeman Tilden's Later Interpretive Writings



Mindsight: The Aim of Interpretation



That Elderly Schoolma'am: Nature



The Constructive Aspect of Inaction



Two Concord Men in a Boat



An Interpretive Ideal


Index