worked at several parts and is now the chief of museum services and interpretation at jefferson national expansion memorialn st. louis. and we have carol mcreynolds, carol brandt is a relevance, diversity and inclusion strategist at the national level for the national parks service. she has more than 30 years experience in the parks service and one of her jobs of many that she held was the chief of interpretation for the lewis and clarke national historic trail during the bicentennial of the lewis and clark expedition and did a lot of work with the native peoples along the route of the trail, making sure that all sidesof that story were told so welcome carol, welcome panelists . [applause] and i am just going to get up on to the connect slide here.you'll forgive me for a minute. yes. this is where we were supposed to be in the slide. it's a pleasure to be here to talk to you and with you about national parks as places of healing and resiliency and expression. national parks as you know were started for the purposes of conservation and enjoyment for the public. i'd like to say that the national parks servic

the competition was for jefferson national expansion memorial, which was a national park service sitended by a presidential proclamation to commemorate st. louis's role in the westward expansion in the united states. so 12 years after the founding of the park, an architectureal competition was held. 40 city blocks were torn down, erased of its original buildings to make way for the memorial on the st. louis river front. each architect who submitted a design proposal would do any he or she wanted. it could be a huge sculpture or anything they wanted it to be. they wanted one central feature. some people put a big kind of monolithic rectangular block or something. he decided to go within an arch and it was only after he designed if arch that he realized it forms a gateway so it is proposal appropriate for st. louis's role as a gateway to have a giantic gateway on the river front. it is made out of stainless steel on the outside and on the inside it is 3.25 carbon steel. so basically you have a sandwich. in the lower portions it is filled in with concrete. in the upper portions it is rei

the competition was for jefferson national expansion memorial. which was a national park service site founded by a presidential proclamation in 1935 to commemorate st. louis' role in the westward expansion of the united states. so 12 years after the founding of the park, an architectural competition was held to decide what the memorial itself would look like. and basically, they had about 90 acreoffs land to work with. 40 city blocks had been torn down, completely razed of all their original buildings to make way for the memorial of the st. louis riverfront. each architec who submitted a design proposal could really do whatever he or she wanted. it could be a huge sculpture, it could be a series of museum buildings. they did want one central feature to be in each of these designs. some people put an obelisk in. some people put a big kind of monolithic rectangular block or something. saranin decided to go with the idea of an arch. it was only after he kind of designed the arch that he realized, it forms a gateway. so it's really appropriate for th