Writer in Residence Job-Poet

Are you a poet looking to get away so you can work on your writing? Well, the National Park Service has an opportunity for you. You can become the writer in residence at the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site for three weeks at the end of March 2012. You get a $1,500 stipend, as well as some peace and quiet to get some writing done in the beautiful setting of Hendersonville, North Carolina. I wish they needed a biologist in residence instead!! You can learn more about it by visiting their website (click here).

Who wouldn't want to live here for a week?

There's a new national memorial in town

I live right outside of Washington D.C. and there are a ton of national park sites in the area. Many I've been  to, though not as recent as I would like. I plan to do something about that this fall. Now, I have more incentive to visit the National Mall because now there is a new memorial in town, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. The memorial officially opened to the public yesterday, with the official dedication on Sunday, August 28 (the anniversary of King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech). It's all over the local news here and from the images I've seen on T.V., it looks pretty darn amazing. If you want to learn more about the memorial, you can visit the website (click here). I plan to visit it the next time a drag myself down to the National Mall. I'll be sure to take pictures and post about it here.

There is also a Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site in Georgia dedicated to the life of this leader of the civil rights movement. From the website: "The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic site was established to preserve and interpret the places where Dr. King was born, worked, worshipped and is buried. Places to visit include the Visitor Center, Ebenezer Baptist Church, The King Center (Freedom Hall), Fire Station No. 6, Dr. King's Birth Home and the restored Birth Home Block."  

If you are ever in the Atlanta, Georgia area with some time to kill, I think this would be a great place to check out. I haven't been, but hope to get there one day. You can learn more about this National Historic Site by visiting it's dedicated website (click here).