Scope and Contents

This series contains a button, commemorative coins, a patch, a signature stamp, and a ticket. The items date from the period 1972 to 1990 and include items relating to the Great Smoky National Park, the centennial of Yellowstone National Park and the fiftieth anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Abstract Gary Everhardt was an engineer with the National Park Service who became Assistant Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park in 1969 and Superintendent of Grand Teton National Park in 1972. In 1975 he became the ninth Director of the National Park Service where he oversaw the park-wide celebration of the national Bicentennial and doubled the acreage of lands belonging to the Service, promoting land conservation and preservation. In 1977 he resigned from the directorship and became...