A Summer Shaping What Comes Next - Flipbook - Page 10
NATIONAL PARKS IN
YOUR OWN BACKYARD
Exploring national parks is a fun and accessible way to be a part of
Civic Season, from adventuring in remote places to breathing in nature in the
middle of a huge city! Young people have always played an important role in
sustaining our national parks, working in conservation corps since the 1930s
to maintain historic trails, build new ones, rehabilitate sites, and much more
to restore and protect our lands and waters.
Meet your
, guide
,
STORME
,
DELARVERIE
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I’m Stormé DeLarverié and I was born In June of 1969, patrons and
on December 24th, 1920, in New
employees of the Stonewall Inn, a gay
Orleans. I loved singing and performed bar in NYC, fought against the
as a drag king in Greenwich Village in
discriminatory harassment of the
New York City. I proudly called myself police. I participated in this fight,
the
