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About the Crater Lake NP Oral
History Series
Interviewer: Stephen R. Mark,
Crater Lake National Park Historian
Interview
Location and Date:
Jacksonville, Oregon, February 10, 1989
Transcription:
Transcribed by Chris Prout, August 1997
Biographical
Summary (from the interview introduction)
Larry Smith can be credited with
initiating the first effort to compile the park’s history in an easily
digestible format. It started as an extension of a report type that the NPS once
called an “important event log,” but continual growth and refinement soon
brought about The Smith Brothers’ Chronological History of Crater Lake
National Park. This and other topics of mutual interest led to an
interview in Jacksonville, at a time when I was still getting oriented with what
has transpired at the park over the past four decades.
The interview also marked the
beginning of his unflagging assistance which continues to the present. He and
his brother Lloyd have contributed to park programs in many ways, most recently
as volunteers in the Friends of Crater Lake. Our correspondence since this
interview is extensive, and touches on many topics pertaining to history at
Crater Lake and the surrounding area. Copies of those letters, along with
related source material, are in the park’s history files.
Materials
Associated with this interview on file at the
Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National
Park's Steel Visitor Center
Taped interview
2110189. File contains newspaper articles,
manuscripts, and correspondence. Much of the
latter pertains to the Smith Brothers
Chronological History of the park which he and
his brother Lloyd have compiled or updated to
the present. Slide of LBS taken at the time of
interview.
To the reader:
Larry Smith can be credited with
initiating the first effort to compile the park’s history in an easily
digestible format. It started as an extension of a report type that the NPS once
called an “important event log,” but continual growth and refinement soon
brought about The Smith Brothers’ Chronological History of Crater Lake
National Park. This and other topics of mutual interest led to an
interview in Jacksonville, at a time when I was still getting oriented with what
has transpired at the park over the past four decades.
The interview also marked the
beginning of his unflagging assistance which continues to the present. He and
his brother Lloyd have contributed to park programs in many ways, most recently
as volunteers in the Friends of Crater Lake. Our correspondence since this
interview is extensive, and touches on many topics pertaining to history at
Crater Lake and the surrounding area. Copies of those letters, along with
related source material, are in the park’s history files.
Stephen R. Mark
(Crater Lake
National Park Historian)
September 1997
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About the Crater Lake NP Oral
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