On this day in 1916, the National Park Service is created in the United States.

Listen to a poem commissioned for the National Park Service Centennial by the Academy of American Poets. It is called “And the Old Man Speaks of Paradise: a Ghazal” By Wang Ping

Today is August 25, 2020.

This is the Librarian’s Almanac.

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