America's best idea indeed . . .

I just watched all six nights of PBS's National Parks series. Usually I don't have the patience for these programs or don't care about the subject matter (baseball? I think not!). But the Parks are near and dear to my heart.

Well done, beautifully photographed. My only complaint (as registered elsewhere) is too many white-male experts, not enough of everyone else. I highly recommend the series to every single blessed American (and by "blessed" I mean blessed to have these parks in our country). From the Yellowstone beginnings to the reintroduction of gray wolves (I saw one last year!), from the fights over Hetch Hetchy to the fights over the Grand Tetons (imagine!), even from the slaughter of Native Americans to the slave quarters in Florida to the Japanese-American internment camps in the West and the Flight 93 site in Pennsylvania, it's one great big swath of history. It's our best and our worst, it's who we are.