Book Launch: "An Exaltation of Parks" by Steve Kemp In-Person / Online

America’s national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service struggling to keep up, author and former park ranger Steve Kemp looks toward one exceptionally effective historical example of conservation philanthropy and park building—the collaboration between John D. Rockefeller Jr. and NPS legends Stephen Mather, Horace Albright, and Arno Cammerer. Join Steve Kemp and Friends of Acadia for a reading and signing of Kemp’s new book: An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Crusade to Save America’s Wonderlands. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

This program is a collaboration of Friends of Acadia and the Northeast Harbor Library.

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Author Steve Kemp has spent most of his adult life working in national parks, from cook at a park concession in the Grand Tetons to a seasonal ranger in Yellowstone and Denali to publications director for nonprofit park education partner Great Smoky Mountains Association (now Smokies Life). A graduate of the University of Montana’s writing program, Kemp has written for magazines including National Parks, Outside, Outdoor Life, and Smokies Life Journal, and is the author of many books celebrating our national parks.