{"id":61556,"date":"2021-09-21T00:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T00:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61556"},"modified":"2021-09-21T00:51:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T00:51:34","slug":"americas-oldest-park-ranger-is-only-her-latest-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61556","title":{"rendered":"\u2018America\u2019s Oldest Park Ranger\u2019 Is Only Her Latest Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018America\u2019s Oldest Park Ranger\u2019 Is Only Her Latest Chapter<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
2021-09-20<\/p>\n

Jennifer Schuessler<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Chanell Stone for The New York Times<\/small><\/p>\n

Betty Reid Soskin<\/a> has fought to ensure that American history includes the stories that get overlooked. As she turns 100, few stories have been more remarkable than hers.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Rosie the Riveter \/ World War II Home Front<\/a> National Historical Park, which sprawls across the former shipyards in Richmond, Calif.<\/a>, on the northeast edge of San Francisco Bay<\/a>, tells the enormous story of the largest wartime mobilization in American history and the sweeping social changes it sparked.<\/p>\n

Visitors can climb aboard an enormous Victory ship<\/a>, one of more than 700 vessels produced in Richmond \u2014 and, in the gift shop, pick up swag emblazoned with the iconic image of the red-kerchiefed Rosie<\/a> herself, arm flexed up with \u201cWe Can Do It!<\/a>\u201d bravado.<\/p>\n

But for many, the park is synonymous with another woman: Betty.<\/p>\n

Betty Reid Soskin<\/a>, who turns 100 on Sept. 22, is the oldest active ranger in the National Park Service<\/a>. Over the past decade and a half, she has become both an icon of the service and an unlikely celebrity, drawing overflow crowds to talks and a steady stream of media interviewers eager for the eloquent words of an indomitable 5 feet 3 inch great-grandmother once described by a colleague as \u201csort of like Bette Davis<\/a>, Angela Davis<\/a> and Yoda<\/a> all rolled into one.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chanell Stone for The New York Times<\/p>\n

Betty Reid Soskin has fought to ensure that American history includes the stories that get overlooked. As she turns 100, few stories have been more remarkable than hers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,20,25],"tags":[28051,24354,455,16992,8918,2640,8406,2327],"class_list":["post-61556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-betty-charbonnet","tag-betty-reid-soskin","tag-california","tag-jennifer-schuessler","tag-national-park-service","tag-new-york-times","tag-richmond","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61561,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61556\/revisions\/61561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}