Touring America's Parks with Shayne!
National Parks, State Parks & Other Places
In August of 2023, me and my mom went to the Carl Sandburg House National Historic Site in North Carolina. We were meeting up for a convention of The National Park Travelers Club. Who is Carl Sandburg? He was into poetry, journalism, biography, children’s stories, prose writing, and social activism. He lived at this house…
The new park is Amache National Historic Site located in Colorado. Amache, also know at the Granada Relocation Center. It’s one ten incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to unjustly incarcerate Japanese Americans. Over 10,000 people, most American citizens, were incarcerated at Amache from 1942-1945.
A Clash of Cultures Me and my mom In April 2023, me and my family went to Fort Bowie. We got there to late so we didn’t get to hang out the much there. The visitor center was closed but I did get my stamps. We did see some the fort walls and read about…
A Frontier Post Fort Davis is my newest park in Texas. It is also my 100th park of my collection to go too. It made me very happy to go. I got to see this park with my dad and my stepmom Cathy. Thank you for helping me reach my goal. This fort had the…
A Place Called Home Me and my mom visited the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in St. Louis, Missouri. Ulysses S. Grant was a commanding general of the US Army during the Civil War. Also he was the 18th president of the United States. He championed civil rights for African Americans. He was from…
Husband, Father, Neighbor, and President While me and my mom were in Springfield, Illinois. We stopped at the Lincoln Home. This was the home of Abraham Lincoln and his family for 17 years before he became President of the United States. When they first move in it was one floor and with one bedroom house….