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Radical Roots of Recreation Profession (personified)

Radical Roots of Recreation Profession (personified). Joseph Lee Luther Gullick Jane Addams Joseph Riis Frederick Law Olmsted John Muir/Gifford Pinchot Stephen Mather. Joseph Lee. Well-to-do Boston lawyer (1880’s) Upset boys were jailed for playing the streets

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Radical Roots of Recreation Profession (personified)

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  1. Radical Roots of Recreation Profession (personified) • Joseph Lee • Luther Gullick • Jane Addams • Joseph Riis • Frederick Law Olmsted • John Muir/Gifford Pinchot • Stephen Mather

  2. Joseph Lee • Well-to-do Boston lawyer (1880’s) • Upset boys were jailed for playing the streets • Constructed playgrounds at his expense • Then used influence to push city • 2nd President of PAA “the battle in the slums is not over drink, overcrowding, crime… it is a part of the city with no personality, no sense of community.”

  3. Luther Gullick • NY equivalent of Lee • Social programs to address social problems • Nothing for his daughters • Founded Campfire Girls • PE training at Springfield College • Founder and 1st President of PAA

  4. Jane Addams • Chicago equivalent of Lee and Gullick • Hull House, settlement house for immigrants, unwed mothers, poor • “most dangerous woman in America” - organized women garment workers - women’s suffrage - opposed US involvement in WWI • Hull stressed recreation, along with food and social services (“Bread and Roses”)

  5. Jacob Riis • NY journalist • Revealed slums to the rich in “How the Other Half Lives” • Parks are for the poor, not for the pomp of the wealthy • Honorary VP of PAA (TR was honorary President)

  6. Frederick Law Olmsted • 1st American landscape architect ????? • Charmed by England’s People’s Gardens • Designer of Central Park • Not designer of Golden Gate park • Protector of Niagara Falls and Yosemite • Need to educate urban dwellers to nature

  7. Myth of Superabundance • Jeffersonian agrarianism • Conservation (George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature) • Preservation (Thoreau – “preserve the wild in all of us”)

  8. Muir vs. Pinchot • Preservationists • Must experience nature ourselves • Nature for its own sake Conservationists • Wise use for the benefit of humans • Faith in science Muir Pinchot

  9. John Muir • Wisconsin boy • Indiana eye accident • How do I get to Yosemite? • 1st to know Yosemite was from glaciers • Saw nature as friend, not challenge • Founded Sierra Club • Spokesperson for environmentalists • Politically active

  10. Gifford Pinchot • Unfairly painted as bad guy • Early head of US Forest Service • Silvaculture and Conservation - trees are important for American ideal - trees are a crop - trees are for all people (so govt. control) Hetch Hetchy!!!!!

  11. Stephen Mather • Still another rich guy (20 Mule Team Borax) • “Why don’t you fix it yourself?” • Mather and Albright • 1916 Enabling Act • Mather’s commercialization • Negative reaction to Mather led to NPCA

  12. The Point? • Founders were influential do-gooders • Not a profession, but a passion • Founders were cutting edge radicals So what has happened to rec today?

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