Interpreting Our Heritage by Freeman Tilden

Author:Freeman Tilden [Tilden, Freeman]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

If you go into that charming Adams house in Quincy, Massachusetts, you see a house that was occupied by several generations of one of our most extraordinary families—rugged individualists, if there ever were any; intellectuals, unspectacular, nonconformists. In Oregon is the home of John McLoughlin, “father of the Oregon Territory,” another rugged individualist, but how different from the Adamses! At Hyde Park there are the homes of Frederick Vanderbilt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, each representing a sharply etched way of life in a period of our history. But wherever, and whatever, in the places devoted to human history the objective of interpretation remains unchanged: to bring to the eye and understanding of the visitor not just a house, a ruin, or a battlefield, but a house of living people, a prehistoric ruin of real folks, a battlefield where men were only incidentally—even if importantly—in uniform. I was thrilled once at the sight of a picture of a poor ragged fragment of a defeated Confederate band, straggling past an officer standing on a hillock by the side of the road, and bravely managing a salute out of their remaining morale. Hardly a whole uniform among them! I said to myself, “This was the war.”

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