Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)

Subject: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 12:09 AM

I just want to share my joy with the Mudcat comunity over receiving a high award for a park service interpretive ranger, the Freeman Tilden Award, for the Western region. There are 10 regions in the National Park Service, and one ranger from each region is chosen. in November, a national awardee is chosen from the ten regional winners.

The award is named in honor of the godfather of nature and historic interpretation, Freeman Tilden, who set down some compelling guiding principles of interpretation in his book "Interpreting Our Heritage." By "interpretation,'" I mean the field of interpreting the meaning and significance of natural, historical, and cultural resources to park and museum visitors.

Why I want to share this with you all, is that this award was given to me based on my work organizing a sea music festival at the park I work at in San Francisco. This award is not just a personal accomplishment, but a statement and affirmation, I think, of the park service recognizing the importance of preserving and presenting our traditional sea music heritage.

My many thanks to the musicians who made this festival possible!

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: gnu
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 05:14 AM

Good on ya !!!

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 06:08 AM

congratulations.

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: Tinker
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 06:10 AM

Great !!! Congradulations

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 06:29 AM

You go Chanteyranger, congradulations. You have been doing a right wonderfull job even if you are out on the left coast. It's not all that often that someone gets the recognition for some thing well done. You deserve every bit of of it. Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 06:30 AM

Oh, this should be switched to the music section, no bullshit. Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 07:11 AM

Congratulations- that's wonderful!

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: jeffp
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:25 AM

It's great to see that SOMEBODY

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: jeffp
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:26 AM

Sorry about that. Hit the wrong key.

As I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself:

It's nice to see that SOMEBODY in our government recognizes the importance of traditional music.

Many congratulations!!!!

jeffp

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 12:01 PM

CR,

Very, very well done and richly deserved!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 01:00 PM

Congratulations! I have a couple of dog-earred copies of Interpreting our Heritage that I've used many times over the years. Tilden reminds us of so many things that are just as important today when interpreting subjects for the public as they were when his classic book was written several decades ago.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Freeman Tilden Award
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 07:34 PM

Thanks, all. Yes, Stilly, his principles are for the ages! Barry, that's right, on second thought it is a legit music thread. Any clone out there to the rescue?

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Dave Swan
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 03:12 PM

CR's Sea Music Festival is a high class operation, even if he does hire some low brow talent.

From the perspective of someone who has been lucky enough to appear there, the festival is a masterpiece of organization, entertainment, education and preservation of tradition. You need only witness the number of volunteers knocking themselves out because they couldn't bear to let the Chanteyranger down to know where the heart and soul of this event lie.

It's not just the special events where Chanteyranger makes his park shine, you can see it in the monthly chantey sings and the weekly events he runs at the pier.

Congrats CR!

D

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: radriano
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 07:37 PM

Does this mean we have to start calling him "Mr. Chanteyranger"?

All kidding aside, Congratulations!

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Barry Finn
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 09:22 PM

Hey Dave, does that mean you're calling me "low brow talent"? Well, I couldn't be in finer company. Thanks Barry

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Melani
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 10:23 PM

What it means is that he is now officially one of the ten coolest park rangers in the United States! Of course, we already knew that, but it is nice to have official confirmation of a well-known fact.

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Dave Swan
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 10:30 PM

Not at all, my dear Mr. Finn. Your talent is of the highest brow. I referred only to my little band of beer swilling idiots, whose only high brow attributes are associated with our hairlines.

Respectfully,
Y'r humble obd't,

D Swan

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Barry Finn
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:23 PM

Jeezz, now are you picking on my hairline? Hey Dave, what's a brow anyway? My kids sometimes call me uni-brow because my eyebrows run from eye to eye without a break. Nice to hear from ya, say hi from me to PJ & I hope all's well with your family.


We knew he was the coolest, now ship him east.

Barry

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 12:04 AM

Thanks, folks! Dave, I have to agree with you that there's nothing like a good Lowenbrau while watching some talent. I should, though, get slapped for a misprint (or a mis-brain) on the number of regions in the park service. There are actually seven since the park service re-did the whole configuration some years ago. I was thinking more of the regions in the Ntl. Assoc. for Interpretation (I'm in region 9). Bottom line here, 7 regions, one brain dead ranger....but too late, they can't take it back.

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Anglo
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 02:05 AM

Well, let me add my congratulations, as someone of lo, Neanderthal brow, but who has yet shared the stage of said event with Mr Swan and his fellow swillers.

Chanteyranger, you put on a really fine, well organized event, despite the best efforts of some your performers, and it is wonderful to see you honored for this. I hope this means there'll be lots more festivals!

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 04:29 AM

Great to see dedicated work being recognised. Congratulations CR. Burl

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Dave Swan
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 08:17 AM

Anglo, good to see you pop up. Best from the left coast and all of us at OAT.
D

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 12:37 PM

Provoke, Relate, Reveal... and what was the fourth one?

No, no, not names of chanteymen, Tilden's principles of interpretation!

(Congratulations, Chanteyranger!)

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: GUEST,mainbrace
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 02:01 PM

Congratulations and regards.Delighted for you. Tony and Mike.

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Dead Horse
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 02:35 PM

Well, Blow the man down! And Bully in his alley!
Congrats.
Any chance of Chantyranger getting a job in the UK govt?
Sort out the PEL fiasco.......that sort of thing???

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Margaret V
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 08:24 PM

Congratulations, Chanteyranger, that's a lovely honor, and sounds very well deserved indeed! (Becky, there are six--the other three are that interpretation is an art; that interpretation for children should be distinct from, not a watered-down version of, interpretation for adults; and that interpretation should be whole, not just a part, and should teach to the whole person. Good man, Tilden...)

Cheers, Margaret

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Melani
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 07:55 PM

And speaking of interpretation, he also speaks Chinese!

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 12:29 AM

Well, I only know hello, goodbye, thank you, you're welcome, and "My hovercraft is full of eels" (Cleesian dialect).

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: RiGGy
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 10:42 AM

Peter ROCKS in so many ways !!!
Thanks for doin' whatchu do.
Riggy

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 12 Sep 03 - 03:24 PM

Congratulations, Peter! I was out of town and almost missed this entirely or I would've posted sooner. The kudos is well deserved.

Claire

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: Willa
Date: 12 Sep 03 - 04:27 PM

Well done, CR, and keep it up!

Subject: RE: Freeman Tilden Award (for sea music festival)
From: GUEST,Freeman Tilden III
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 04:05 PM

My grandfather would be proud of all of you.

Congrats CR

Freeman Tilden III