National Affairs: NATIONAL PARKS: The U.S.'s Time Dimension

The story itself was an ancient one, but in the summer of 1956 it enchanted the travelingest, doingest, seeingest people on earth. They marveled at Yellowstone's Old Faithful geyser. They gasped at the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, at the fire falls cascading down the face of Yosemite's Glacier Point, at the stalactitic vastness of New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns. They agreed that there is nothing more beautiful than the Great Smokies when the rhododendron and the laurel are in bloom. They whispered in the cathedral silence of the towering rain forests of the Northwest. And they shivered a little as...

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