From: Destinee Udelhoven <destineekae@hotmail.com> Subject: MHAHS 9-22 Webinar Looks at History of Camping- Why are we roughing it? Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 22:43:06 +0000 Message-ID: <CH2PR22MB20533EA64A063397A5CD9C09A1240@CH2PR22MB2053.namprd22.prod.outlook.com>
Nomadic life is nothing new. When did it become recreational?
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Nomadic living is hardly new. People have been living outdoors
without permanent dwellings for ages.
How did camping shift from a lifestyle to a leisure activity?
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Presented by Dr. Stanley Temple
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 @ 6:30pm
FREE EVENT. REGISTER BY SUN, SEPT 20.
The Mount Horeb Area Historical Society is partnering with the UW-Madison
“Badger Talks” program to host Professor Emeritus Stanley Temple on Tue
sday, September 22, 2020 at 6:30pm for, “Roughing It,” a virtual discus
sion about the history and future of recreational camping.
Pandemic-era social distancing and travel restrictions have resulted in a s
urge of interest in outdoor recreation—including camping. Our social medi
a feeds reinforce this phenomenon, as we scroll past countless images of co
zy fires and colorful tents pitched along sparkling streams and in public p
arks across America.
Over 40 million Americans will go “camping” this year, escaping from th
eir everyday life—and COVID-19 confinement—for outdoor adventures, from
backpacking, to canoe and kayak camping, to bicycle camping, and RV campin
g.
Of course, nomadic living is nothing new. People have been living outdoors
without permanent dwellings for ages. How did camping shift from a lifestyl
e to a leisure activity?
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Dr. Temple will review the development of recreational camping since its or
igins in the mid-19th century.
Principal proponents will be highlighted such as Thomas Hiram Holding, Ralp
h Waldo Emerson, William Henry Harrison Murray (the father of the “Outdoo
r Movement”), Charles Dudley Warner, George W. Sears (”Nessmuk”), Hor
ace Kephart, and Ernest Thompson Seton.
Other related threads of interest will also be addressed, such as: How did
automobiles change camping? How did the growing interest spark the need for
camping gear? How did interest in camping influence advocacy for protectin
g wild lands? Are there limits beyond which camping in wild places becomes
abuse? Should campers and other outdoor recreationists be more vocal advoca
tes for protection of wild places?
Dr. Stanley (Stan) Temple is the Beers-Bascom Professor Emeritus in Conserv
ation in the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and former Chairman
of the Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program in the Gayl
ord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW–Madison. For 32 year
s he held the academic position once occupied by Aldo Leopold. He is curren
tly a Senior Fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation.
Badger Talks is a UW-Madison outreach initiative, designed to engage Wiscon
sin residents on topics they care about and share the latest discoveries an
d research of UW’s world-class faculty, staff and graduate students.
Registration is required; participants may choose
to join via weblink or call-in number.
To sign up, email dudelhoven@mthorebhistory.org<mailto:<mailto:dudelhoven@mthorebhi
story.org>
(include “9-22 Camping Event” in the subject line)
or call 608-437-6486 by Sunday, September 20.
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