Speaker 1: It's night.
Speaker 2: On B'SO.
Speaker 3: I have been telling you all night long. Dan will
Speaker 3: be off. He's got a vacation. I think it's one
Speaker 3: of those station trips. But he will be back on
Speaker 3: the twelfth of August that Monday, and I should let
Speaker 3: you know on the Morgan Show Saturday. Mel Simon's will
Speaker 3: be joining me again. A WBZ legend, and I've got
Speaker 3: him and I'll share him with you on Saturday ten
Speaker 3: to midnight. I'll be here for Night's Side on Monday.
Speaker 3: And I've got a gentleman well known for gossip reporting,
Speaker 3: Will Cach as well, Alison Angram. Remember her on Little
Speaker 3: House in the Prairie. She was that brady little earl.
Speaker 3: Now she'll be joining me. And for those of you
Speaker 3: who've had these gentlemen entertain at your function over the years,
Speaker 3: the Winnakers, Bill and Bo will be here. So now
Speaker 3: that you know all of these things, you may call
Speaker 3: about National Parks and Ranger Richard Thurando aka Dixie is here.
Speaker 3: And as soon as I said that Dixie, two people
Speaker 3: have called in.
Speaker 4: Should I finish my story or wait.
Speaker 3: No, finish his story?
Speaker 4: Okay, So I was I was being a volunteer, being
Speaker 4: a good boy helping out. I was. I was in
Speaker 4: the office by myself on July fourth weekend. I did
Speaker 4: everything that was there to do. Everything went fine, And
Speaker 4: then as the month went by and became labor day,
Speaker 4: all of the other volunteers disappeared slow except for me.
Speaker 3: When you say volunteer, were you paid?
Speaker 4: No, no, no no. And there was an elderly couple,
Speaker 4: a single woman maybe in her thirties or forties, a
Speaker 4: couple younger people, but there were all kinds of little people.
Speaker 4: They just showed up and wanted to help out the
Speaker 4: park Service. And that's fine. But as the days went by,
Speaker 4: they went either back to school, back to their families,
Speaker 4: went on vacasion, whatever, And I was the last one left, okay,
Speaker 4: And you got to remember that the man in charge
Speaker 4: was going to leave, the person who was second in
Speaker 4: charge was going to leave, and the person who hired
Speaker 4: me was going to be left by herself, hung out
Speaker 4: to dry. So when labor day came, and this was
Speaker 4: a parent, I said to her, you know, I could
Speaker 4: work here if you can find a way to do it.
Speaker 4: I can work here because I hate where I work.
Speaker 4: And she found a way to do it, and that's
Speaker 4: how I became a park service worker.
Speaker 3: And the rest is his.
Speaker 4: History, for good or for bad.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take Garry and Wooburn. So, Gary, you
Speaker 3: want to talk about National parks, do you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: I'm so sorry you had Dixie on. I was working
Speaker 6: and I hit the phone. I thought you guys were
Speaker 6: talking about baseball.
Speaker 3: If you want to bring up baseball going out? Gary?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, he cannot, No, No, We're not going
Speaker 4: to do this. Absolutely not. Plenty of time to talk
Speaker 4: about baseball. When we're talking about baseball. It's National Park Night,
Speaker 4: that's it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Oh, but you hear how surly he got. All right, Gary,
Speaker 3: thanks for calling. Bye bye, Here goes Gary. Let's go
Speaker 3: to Sandy in West Roxbury. Sandy, I hope you're going
Speaker 3: to stick to topic.
Speaker 7: I think I am okay, No, excuse me. In nineteen
Speaker 7: ninety five, I was teaching first grade in a private
Speaker 7: school and I wasn't there, and I had come from
Speaker 7: teaching in Roxbury. And one of the things that we
Speaker 7: had done was my boss, who was also different, had
Speaker 7: called the I think it was the National Park Service,
Speaker 7: and we got a tour of the monument to the
Speaker 7: fifty fourth Robert Gulchar, and I thought, well, this is
Speaker 7: something that the first graders should be exposed to. So
Speaker 7: I called them and we arranged the tour. They was
Speaker 7: thrilled that I called, and the kids loved it, and
Speaker 7: they came to me afterwards, the park ranger and said,
Speaker 7: you know, we have lots of programs for kids, and
Speaker 7: nobody takes advantage of them. So every week for a
Speaker 7: full year, they either changed my class and did programs,
Speaker 7: or we went to down with Love Reading and they
Speaker 7: taught us things, or it was just something every week
Speaker 7: that we did and they were thrilled, and of course
Speaker 7: I was thrilled, and the kids were pills. The best
Speaker 7: one they had was a pro been called horse, of course,
Speaker 7: and we were right near Adams Park. I'm getting at
Speaker 7: Adams Park in Usindale, but they brought a horse and
Speaker 7: they let all the kids ride them, very gentle of course,
Speaker 7: you know, and pat them, and they taught them how
Speaker 7: to talk to kids and me how to take care
Speaker 7: of a horse, and we had so much fun that year.
Speaker 7: I think it went on for three or four years,
Speaker 7: and then they said we can't do them. We just
Speaker 7: don't have the funding, you know, And that It was
Speaker 7: just so much fun and it was wonderful.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 4: You see there's the magic word. We don't have the funding.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 4: And everybody was having a swell time.
Speaker 7: Oh everybody. You know, it was just fantastic.
Speaker 4: You mean, what what visitors don't grasp maybe right away,
Speaker 4: is that most park rangers, whether they're state park rangers,
Speaker 4: national park rangers, most park rangers love an audience. Are
Speaker 4: they are They are willing, ready, willing and able to
Speaker 4: tell you what they know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and the kids have the best questions, you know. Well,
Speaker 7: it was just wonderful. I was hot broken and they said,
Speaker 7: you know, they didn't shut this up, you know, but
Speaker 7: they did like one a month, and the next year
Speaker 7: it was like, you know, three four times a year
Speaker 7: and then yeah.
Speaker 4: See that that's the thing when you don't have enough funding,
Speaker 4: you have to pick and choose of when you can
Speaker 4: do stuff, as opposed to just doing it because you
Speaker 4: have the funding and have the people to do it.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Oh and other kids, I mean, they'll let them
Speaker 7: know what they missed not having that program. I've never
Speaker 7: seen it in any other school because I guess they
Speaker 7: have never been able to do it again.
Speaker 3: Oh, Sandy, thank you for sharing that story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and thank you for your service to the first graders.
Speaker 7: Oh, oh, like you. You know, I loved what I
Speaker 7: was doing, so you know, it was just it was wonderful. Well,
Speaker 7: thank you for everything you do and keep on doing it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you for the call.
Speaker 7: Good night.
Speaker 3: All right, We're going to take a break and then
Speaker 3: Susan and Worcester will be up. If you want to
Speaker 3: do what Sandy has done and Susan has done six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
Speaker 3: thirty eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty and
Speaker 3: Dixie is being adamant only calls about the National Park Service.
Speaker 3: I know I've used Dixie in the past about baseball,
Speaker 3: but tonight it is his National Parks hat that he's wearing,
Speaker 3: not a baseball cap. Here on Night Side. Well, the
Speaker 3: time is eleven point fifteen, temperature eighty four degrees.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nice Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: This is night Side without Dan Ray and Dixie. I
Speaker 3: was just speaking with Rob. He's wearing a hat that says,
Speaker 3: may the Forest be with you.
Speaker 4: All right, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 3: Let's go to let's go to Worcester and speak to Susan. Susan,
Speaker 3: good evening.
Speaker 9: Good evening, Morgan, and Dixie, thanks for the program tonight.
Speaker 9: Just a couple of things. I'm a mom of four.
Speaker 9: They're old older now thirty eight to twenty eight. But
Speaker 9: we've driven across country twice with them when they were
Speaker 9: younger and hit many national parks, and we're very grateful
Speaker 9: for each and every one of them, and they are
Speaker 9: all so unique from each other. It's just quite an
Speaker 9: adventure out there, and I would encourage everyone to explore
Speaker 9: National parks near and far. So many opportunities abound. But
Speaker 9: I did want to know. I'm actually just tuning in.
Speaker 9: Has anybody mentioned anything about Sunday and it being a
Speaker 9: National Park Day. My husband told me about it today,
Speaker 9: and maybe you can confirm it, Dixie, that you can
Speaker 9: go into national parks that normally charge, but it would
Speaker 9: be for free.
Speaker 4: Well, it sounds possible. I don't know about it because
Speaker 4: I'm no longer in the Park Service. I wouldn't get
Speaker 4: a memo about it. I know there's a National Park
Speaker 4: Week earlier in the year, so for them to have
Speaker 4: a specific day at this time of year is a
Speaker 4: little bit odd. Normally you would think they would have
Speaker 4: it on the day of the National Park Service birthday,
Speaker 4: which is Longust twenty fifth, But if they pick something else,
Speaker 4: then you pick something else.
Speaker 9: And I could be totally wrong. So people out there,
Speaker 9: don't go by me and investigate Firth.
Speaker 4: You can't tell me with four children traveling, which is
Speaker 4: a chore, did you have time to pick out a
Speaker 4: favorite National park?
Speaker 9: But that's a loaded question personal favorite. I think it's
Speaker 9: a toss up between Glacier National Park and Zion National Park. Okay, choices,
Speaker 9: both absolutely stunning beauty, totally different from one another. And
Speaker 9: I would be remiss to say not to say that
Speaker 9: locally here with all of the history that we have
Speaker 9: and everything the National Park Service does here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 9: we have done it all with the kids. I can't
Speaker 9: say maybe all of it, but a large percentage of it.
Speaker 9: And I'm so grateful that we are in this part
Speaker 9: of the country.
Speaker 3: Susan. Let me ask your kids that are now all adults.
Speaker 3: I'm sure they some of them have kids of their own,
Speaker 3: and are they forwarding this, paying it forward that they
Speaker 3: are now taking their kids to national parks?
Speaker 9: So we actually just had her first grand baby. She's
Speaker 9: eight weeks old, so not yet. But I was actually
Speaker 9: thinking of this today, Morgan, that if they don't travel,
Speaker 9: we are bringing those grandkids with us because we drove
Speaker 9: every time, and we homeschool homeschooled our kids, so we
Speaker 9: were free to do it in the month of September
Speaker 9: October when everyone is back in school and things are
Speaker 9: less crowded. So it's just one of the luxuries of homeschooling.
Speaker 9: And so yes, I look forward to I won't even
Speaker 9: say dragging the grandkids because I can't say our kids
Speaker 9: were always angels in the car and wanting to go
Speaker 9: to the places that we wanted to go to. But
Speaker 9: I think they will look back and do look back
Speaker 9: now grateful for the experiences they had.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's all ye.
Speaker 3: Let me ask this in regards to national parks. Did
Speaker 3: you prefer to stay overnight in the national parks or
Speaker 3: were they day trips to national parks?
Speaker 9: They were mostly drive bys, not drive bys, but we'd
Speaker 9: be along the way. We would go through Lake Glacier,
Speaker 9: Mount Rushmore. We would go through them and then just
Speaker 9: press on to the next night's hotel. But no, he
Speaker 9: never did stay in the National parks okay, so yep,
Speaker 9: and they all did when we went. They did the
Speaker 9: Junior Park Ranger, which I would encourage everyone we've young children.
Speaker 9: They did the Junior Park Ranger, which meant taking a
Speaker 9: little more time, but the results were that they came
Speaker 9: away with so much more.
Speaker 3: So, and you know what, you're the reason. You specifically
Speaker 3: the reason why I do this show once or twice
Speaker 3: a year with Dixie to encourage activities such as that.
Speaker 3: And since you homeschooled your kids, do you feel that
Speaker 3: your kids are scholastically equal to or ahead of other
Speaker 3: kids of their ages because you learn more with mom
Speaker 3: and dad at home.
Speaker 9: Well, thanks for saying that, Morgan, because it would really
Speaker 9: sound braggadocious of me to say that, because I truly
Speaker 9: believe the ratio is so much better when you're at home.
Speaker 9: I will tell you all four of them, not that
Speaker 9: this necessarily means anything, but all four of them have
Speaker 9: graduated from college with very good GPAs two of them
Speaker 9: have gone and gotten their masters. All of them are
Speaker 9: dutifully and well employed, so if you're measuring it by that,
Speaker 9: but to be honest, the better success story to me
Speaker 9: is that they are all friends with each other. And
Speaker 9: we have a very tightly knit family, but we're not
Speaker 9: under a rock. We are definitely out and about and
Speaker 9: they have a very great perception of the world. And
Speaker 9: it's just it's a great way to do it. We
Speaker 9: had religious reasons we were doing it, but also the
Speaker 9: academic comes alongside of it.
Speaker 3: So and I'm sure your kids are well versed in
Speaker 3: the academics of mathematics, geography, history, all the things that
Speaker 3: you would get in the little over it schoolhouse.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 9: And they know how to and they know how to
Speaker 9: do cursive handwriting. How about that?
Speaker 3: How about God?
Speaker 9: I told them, someday you're gonna make a lot of
Speaker 9: money interpreting historical documents because other people will not be
Speaker 9: able to do this.
Speaker 3: What letters said is that an ass I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know, Susan. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 9: All right, thank you, Morgan, have a great night.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dixy, bye bye, thanks for calling.
Speaker 3: And let's take another call. Let's go to South Carolina,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna throw sticks and stones at South Carolina.
Speaker 3: My son, born and raised in Massachusetts, uprooted his family
Speaker 3: and relocated to South Carolina. One of my good friends,
Speaker 3: a gentleman who I've had on the air many a time.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say his name because he might not
Speaker 3: want people to know his business. Excuse me, just niece
Speaker 3: has gone, or we'll be going to South Carolina. And
Speaker 3: an old girlfriend this week drove down with her child
Speaker 3: and the current man in her life to do the
Speaker 3: same thing. Good grief. What is it about South Carolina?
Speaker 3: And as I'm saying all that, the caller that we
Speaker 3: had from South Carolina is patiently letting me ambalon. Jeff,
Speaker 3: thank you for letting me ambalon. How are you good?
Speaker 6: I'll do a good Morgan. I just one of the
Speaker 6: comments on what season just said about a range. There
Speaker 6: was a Ranger Day. World Ranger Day was July thirty first.
Speaker 6: Every year is World Ranger Day, Okay, And I wouldn't
Speaker 6: let you know this. I contacted a special events station,
Speaker 6: i HAM Radio on qy Z. That's the website to
Speaker 6: go to, and the call SI was W four R.
Speaker 6: So it was from July twenty seventh to July thirty first,
Speaker 6: just to let you know.
Speaker 3: Did you know that? No?
Speaker 4: I did not?
Speaker 6: All right, Yeah, So I just want to let you
Speaker 6: know that, and they do that every year. I didn't
Speaker 6: know that, so I just wanted to call in and
Speaker 6: tell you that that.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, what is it about South Carolina?
Speaker 3: Three died in the wall. People born in Massachusetts just
Speaker 3: pulled up stakes to relocate in your state. What is
Speaker 3: it about your state that just welcomes all the people
Speaker 3: moving down there.
Speaker 6: I guess it's getting getting out of the cold weather,
Speaker 6: the snow in the winter.
Speaker 4: There is no cold weather.
Speaker 3: Rumor. But you get hurricanes doing much more damage from
Speaker 3: June to November tornado.
Speaker 6: But tornadoes, yes, but not to really tornadoes. That's hurricanes
Speaker 6: you have to worry about.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Are you anywhere near Greenville?
Speaker 6: H No? Okay, A couple hours away from Greenville?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 6: Thank you Morgan. Okay, take care.
Speaker 3: I appreciate your contribution. Thank you. You are right now.
Speaker 3: I'm almost at another break time. That calls all of
Speaker 3: a sudden started coming in hot and heavy. If you
Speaker 3: want to call in to talk about national parks. He's
Speaker 3: got good memories of when you're a kid, mom and
Speaker 3: dad chucking you into the old station wagon and you
Speaker 3: went to go see this national park of that national park.
Speaker 4: All right, let me throw it, let me, let me
Speaker 4: throw in another fact. All right, go ahead, all right,
Speaker 4: we know the number of parks is four hundred and thirty,
Speaker 4: and we know a lot of other stuff now, including
Speaker 4: the first park, Yellowstone. I'm still looking for an answer
Speaker 4: to what is the second National Park? But what you
Speaker 4: should know out there, sports fans, is that the national
Speaker 4: parks take up eight eighty five million acres of land.
Speaker 4: And eighty five million acres is the combined size of
Speaker 4: the state of New Mexico and Vermont. Okay, Now you
Speaker 4: could have other two sums of states, yes you could,
Speaker 4: but I just picked those two. But it is eighty
Speaker 4: five million acres is how much land is taken up
Speaker 4: by national parks at this point.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you. That's more of a fact than a
Speaker 3: trivia question.
Speaker 4: Oh I know, Oh yes, all right, it's not a
Speaker 4: trivia question. Trivia question now is what is the second
Speaker 4: National Park?
Speaker 3: No one has answered or tried to answer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got a half hour, and that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: Let me take my break, and Rob, I'm asking you
Speaker 3: you can just whisper in my ear. Are we going
Speaker 3: to get from CBS? Oh all right, so perfect. During
Speaker 3: this break, which is coming in about ninety seconds, CBS
Speaker 3: is going to give us a bit of the news
Speaker 3: conference that's going to get people who were freed from Russia.
Speaker 3: So former Marine Paul Whalen and writer for was it
Speaker 3: the New York Post of the New York Times, Evan
Speaker 3: gersh Covi. I knew i'd miss his name up, Evan
Speaker 3: gersh Kovich. If if I say, if you're ever mind to,
Speaker 3: this ought to be interesting. So pay attention to this
Speaker 3: break and after that press conference is over, dixing out,
Speaker 3: we'll be back to talk about national parks six one,
Speaker 3: seven to five, four, ten, thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine,
Speaker 3: ten thirty Time and temperature here on wbz's night Side
Speaker 3: eleven thirty eighty four degrees.
Speaker 2: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news.
Speaker 3: Radio Kidoky, we are down to roughly twenty one minutes
Speaker 3: of show to go. Dixie is here, and Dixie, did
Speaker 3: we leave off at something hanging or can I take
Speaker 3: another phone call?
Speaker 4: I don't think we left anything hanging except the trivia question,
Speaker 4: and that's up to the person coming on the phone.
Speaker 3: And it might be Bill Winnaker that knows it. So
Speaker 3: Bill can't wait to be on the radio with me
Speaker 3: next week. You got a call in tonight.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to Dixon. It's great to hear Dixie's voice.
Speaker 1: We were riding home from Westwood tonight. We play in
Speaker 1: a restaurant on Thursday nights and Westwood. We're riding home
Speaker 1: when I hear Dixie. So, Dixie, was great to hear
Speaker 1: your voice.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: And Bill, tell everybody where you and your brother play
Speaker 3: on Thursday nights.
Speaker 1: You know, we play in a restaurant called Neoli any Roli.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful new restaurant's about two years old, and
Speaker 1: they created a room for us. They call it the
Speaker 1: Supper Club, and we play in there and it's too us.
Speaker 1: It's a couple of hours you have dinner and a
Speaker 1: couple of hours of music. It's it's almost like family.
Speaker 1: It's just all our friends come and it's just just great.
Speaker 3: We've only music to you and your brother play.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: But tell the audience, all right, well, we're doing the
Speaker 1: whole gamut. We look over the crowd, we play jazz,
Speaker 1: we play you know, motown music, we do, we do
Speaker 1: just everything. We look at the study, the people that
Speaker 1: are there, and gear the music. You know, we keep
Speaker 1: changing it all night long. So that we're touching everybody
Speaker 1: in the room. So it's the potpourri of music. Everything
Speaker 1: not too loud because people are eating. But I'm writing
Speaker 1: home car and it reminded me. When I was a
Speaker 1: freshman in college, I got a bunch of gigs voted
Speaker 1: too with this piano player, Jimmy Donovan, and he used
Speaker 1: to talk about this island in northern Michigan is in
Speaker 1: Mackinac Mackinaw, Yeah, Macinac, Mackinaw Island. Yes, So there was
Speaker 1: this big resort there and he was always telling me
Speaker 1: about the National Park on the island, and he I think,
Speaker 1: if I'm right, he told me that was the second
Speaker 1: park National Park, so that I'm putting in my guest
Speaker 1: for that Dixon right, he.
Speaker 4: Is not correct. Oh, here here's the reason why he's
Speaker 4: not correct. Mackinaw Island was supposed to be a National
Speaker 4: park and then it wasn't. It was recalled.
Speaker 3: Michigan.
Speaker 4: State of Michigan wanted it more than they didn't want
Speaker 4: the National parks. They didn't want it to be become
Speaker 4: part of the National Park Service. So it is still there.
Speaker 4: Mackinac Island is still a great place to go. It
Speaker 4: was a very highly known tourist spot in northern Michigan.
Speaker 4: But it was only supposed to be a national park,
Speaker 4: but it never really became one. For if it was,
Speaker 4: it might have been one for a six months or
Speaker 4: something and then it was taken back.
Speaker 3: Pardon my grammar, but is you is or issue? Ain't
Speaker 3: my baby? I mean, can't they make up their mind? Isn't? Well?
Speaker 1: You know, I know I'm not supposed to talk baseball,
Speaker 1: but Bow and I saw the Mariners the other and
Speaker 1: we beat them fourteen to seven. That was a thrilling game.
Speaker 3: More thrilling than a three to two extra inning wind.
Speaker 8: No, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was really thrilling. They were everybody was hitting and
Speaker 1: fielding and it was a great game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, get used to that.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: They lost the next night.
Speaker 4: It was terrible, but that's who they are.
Speaker 3: That day salvage and they won the rubber game.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. So you know, listen, we grew up here.
Speaker 1: We live and die with the Socks. You know, I
Speaker 1: I love the Red Sox all my life as a
Speaker 1: little boy. So you know, you just got to hope
Speaker 1: and hope and pray.
Speaker 3: You and your brother will be on with me. On
Speaker 3: Monday night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're looking forward to that, all right, thank you
Speaker 1: for calling. Oh, you're welcome. I'm joining the show tonight
Speaker 1: very much.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You two were always fun together. It's great. Thank you, Okay,
Speaker 1: good night.
Speaker 4: Yeah night six.
Speaker 3: Or eight eight, eight, nine to nineteen thirty. So Macinaw
Speaker 3: is or isn't the right answer? Depending on it.
Speaker 4: Is, it is not the right answer.
Speaker 3: I was going there. I was going there. But if
Speaker 3: you think you know the right answer, use either of
Speaker 3: those phone numbers to call in. And as I said that,
Speaker 3: somebody's calling in. So Rob will take this call, go
Speaker 3: through the process of screening this call and push a
Speaker 3: button that turns the call from white to yellow, meaning
Speaker 3: I can push my button here and take the call
Speaker 3: and it will be Donna in Sagas. So Donna, thank
Speaker 3: you for calling in.
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 10: I thought it was Macinaw too, but we're gonna go
Speaker 10: with Sechoya.
Speaker 4: And you would be correct.
Speaker 3: Yay, Johnnah, Now there's no prices. We're not allowed to wed.
Speaker 3: How did you know Sequoia?
Speaker 10: Well, I thingured it was out west, and I originally
Speaker 10: was going to say Yosemite, but that was too easy.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, actually Yosemite would not have been a bad guess
Speaker 4: because Yosemite was declared a National park a week later.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 4: There, but Sequoia did win out by a week in
Speaker 4: eighteen ninety.
Speaker 3: And how large an area is Sequoia?
Speaker 4: Very large?
Speaker 3: Answers that question, thanks, hand.
Speaker 4: I don't know. But it contains the highest mountain in
Speaker 4: the south of Alaska in the United in the United States,
Speaker 4: Mount not Mount Whitney, isnt No, it leaves in Alaska.
Speaker 4: I think it's about Whitney. But whatever, the highest mountain
Speaker 4: is in the lower forty eight it's in Sequoia.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, yeah, and Donna, yes, have you been to Nay?
Speaker 10: I have not the Furthest West. I've been in Vegas.
Speaker 3: Oh well here here now Zion.
Speaker 10: Sorry, my husband just reminded me. We went to Oregon.
Speaker 3: Never mind, And what national park in Oregon? Did you see?
Speaker 10: What was the national park in Oregon?
Speaker 4: Crater Lake, Dixie?
Speaker 3: Crater Lake.
Speaker 4: You better know it's Crater Lake because Crater Lake is
Speaker 4: my favorite national park.
Speaker 10: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 3: And why is Crater Lake Dixie's favorite national park?
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, it's a lake. Secondly, it's a
Speaker 4: lake inside a volcano. And thirdly, it's the deepest lake
Speaker 4: in the United States at one thousand, nine hundred and
Speaker 4: forty three feet.
Speaker 3: You are no your statistics, don't you, sir?
Speaker 4: I try.
Speaker 10: My husband helped on that one.
Speaker 3: What's your husband's name, Donna, Michael Clark, Michael, you're probably
Speaker 3: listening on the radio hearing the seven seconds later?
Speaker 10: Yes, we are all right well also known as.
Speaker 3: The Q Okay, Well, Michael and Donna, thank you for calling.
Speaker 3: I've got to take my last break of the night,
Speaker 3: so I'm waving goodbye to the both of you, but
Speaker 3: thank you for your talk.
Speaker 6: Bye bye, Thank you very much.
Speaker 10: Good night you too.
Speaker 4: Bye.
Speaker 3: All right, let me throw it to the break, which
Speaker 3: means Rob gets to push some buttons in the control room.
Speaker 3: Time and temper to hear on night Side eleven forty
Speaker 3: five eighty four degrees.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Mine from the window World Lakes
Speaker 2: Studios on WBZ news Radio.
Speaker 3: Roughly ten minutes of show to go. The show is Nightside.
Speaker 3: The host is Dan Ray, who is not here tonight.
Speaker 3: He's on vacation. He should be back Monday, the twelfth
Speaker 3: of August. Let's go to another commonwealth like Massachusetts is
Speaker 3: one as well. So as Pennsylvania. Rick in Pennsylvania. Good
Speaker 3: evening to you.
Speaker 1: Good evening.
Speaker 5: Did you get an answer to that question about the lake?
Speaker 3: Yes we did.
Speaker 5: Oh you did.
Speaker 3: What what did you want to say?
Speaker 5: I wanted to tell you that I thought you were
Speaker 5: talking about Crater Lake or Okay, the beautiful place. It
Speaker 5: should be one of the wonders of the world.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is. It's my favorite part. Yeah, I did.
Speaker 5: How long? How many miles around you decide to drive?
Speaker 4: I think it's.
Speaker 5: I think you're right. I was there once. I believe
Speaker 5: you are right, but very nice. So well, I'm sorry
Speaker 5: I didn't I just tuned in. I didn't really event Have.
Speaker 4: You been to mini parks? Yes, yeah, that was your favorite.
Speaker 5: Well, I really enjoyed Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: We started at one end and drove to the other
Speaker 5: end and ended up at ST's Park. Yeah, and it
Speaker 5: was beautiful. It was in July. We had snow. The
Speaker 5: road was closed for a little bit until they plowed
Speaker 5: the road in July.
Speaker 4: That means you crossed over the Alpine Visitors Center at
Speaker 4: twelve thousand feet.
Speaker 5: Yes, we did, and also went to forget one of it.
Speaker 7: It was a.
Speaker 4: Very high mountain near Elbert Mount Elberts there. I think
Speaker 4: that's the tallest one in the park.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, we went there, and yeah, there's there's so
Speaker 5: many beautiful spots in this country to live it. I
Speaker 5: just can't see them all. But I'd like to go
Speaker 5: to New England.
Speaker 3: Plenty for you to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What is the.
Speaker 5: Island there that is a national park?
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: No, it's an island off Maine. I believe, oh iloh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I believe that all of that stuff.
Speaker 4: Is part of a Kadia National Park.
Speaker 5: Adie. That's what I'm trying to think of. Yeah, get
Speaker 5: there some time.
Speaker 4: But a Kadi a kadi has many pieces.
Speaker 3: To it, it does.
Speaker 5: Yes, Tim, you take your car there or.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, oh yes you can. Most of the park
Speaker 4: is on the mainland, but they do have islands off
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'd like to get there some day too.
Speaker 3: So will you come up anytime you want?
Speaker 5: Rick, I will and thank you guys. Have good evening.
Speaker 3: Bye, last call all night will be in Winthrop and
Speaker 3: it's Tim, So Tim, welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 8: I want to thank you three years ago for tell
Speaker 8: me about your guests. Told me about Golding's Lodge and
Speaker 8: Monument Valley.
Speaker 4: That is, Yes, Goldings that is.
Speaker 8: It's any reservation.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 8: But I've been to Grand Canyon and I've been to
Speaker 8: most of them. But you know something, my favorite It
Speaker 8: goes from Monument Valley into the Valley of Gods into Zion.
Speaker 8: That whole area is unbelievable. It's the best. I think
Speaker 8: it's the best one because it's famous for the movies
Speaker 8: and everything. And we won a UFO tour at night
Speaker 8: and we saw three of them.
Speaker 3: There's a tour that led you to see three different UFOs.
Speaker 8: We saw three of them. They said I saw too good,
Speaker 8: and I saw another one. They said there was another one.
Speaker 8: They were sitting on top of you, way far away,
Speaker 8: but we had the bnarcies. We looked at him and
Speaker 8: it was like blue and purple and it was pretty.
Speaker 8: It was worth it. And you go in the daytime
Speaker 8: and you go back to the dining hall is fabulous
Speaker 8: in Golding's. It's like a cafeteria style but it's really good.
Speaker 8: And they get John Wayne's cabin there. It's the set
Speaker 8: of the movie She Warrior Ribbon. Oh, it's fabulous. The
Speaker 8: place is. I got to go back there. Soon. I
Speaker 8: never so peaceful in my life. And you did that, Morgan,
Speaker 8: your guest told me about that. Remember that that twenty
Speaker 8: to two and a fish sandwich a long time ago.
Speaker 3: I remember talking about that.
Speaker 8: I just missed that about nineteen seventy eight, but I
Speaker 8: did it in twenty one, like you said, and I
Speaker 8: looked it up and I it's seven hour drive from
Speaker 8: Phoenix and Flagstaff is like New Hampshire. It's a highway
Speaker 8: and seventy five hundred feet it's high the Mount Washington.
Speaker 8: But then we went back in the desert Tuba City, Kayanta.
Speaker 8: It's right near Kayanta. It's like one hundred miles west
Speaker 8: of the four Corners, and it's the most beautiful place
Speaker 8: you want to see. It goes on for one hundred miles,
Speaker 8: all those things sticking up, and it was just it
Speaker 8: was better in a daytime, but then nighttime with the
Speaker 8: stars als. It's on my list, the bucket list. There's
Speaker 8: two hotels.
Speaker 4: Did you get to see the Goose Necks?
Speaker 1: Was that?
Speaker 4: It's right there. It's the San Juan River doing unbelievab.
Speaker 8: I went up as far as Valley of Gods. They
Speaker 8: went back down south back to the whole time. I
Speaker 8: didn't take a six hour tour.
Speaker 4: Try and find the Goose next and see where it
Speaker 4: is in relationship to where you're going.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I'm going back in a couple of years,
Speaker 8: maybe next week. I'm going to the Alamo next week.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's good. Well, glad to be of service.
Speaker 8: Oh that was will you guys as a gentleman who
Speaker 8: told me about that Goldings, you.
Speaker 4: Might have to be Yeah.
Speaker 8: Oh that that place is unbelievable. It's it is, it's
Speaker 8: it's it's much better than I expected. And at sunset
Speaker 8: the colors, I took one hundred and forty pictures and
Speaker 8: I'm selling my pictures to the galleries. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Yep. That's about the size of it.
Speaker 8: It's not a national park. They want to make it,
Speaker 8: but the Indians don't want it.
Speaker 4: I talked to them, the Indian the Indians should keep
Speaker 4: their park. Let them keep it.
Speaker 8: I love that park. That's that's God's country. It's beautiful.
Speaker 3: Tim. I'm glad we put a smile on your face
Speaker 3: and thank you for sharing with us.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, Byway Valley, that's the best one I see.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, Dixie I've got about oh I'm
Speaker 3: mint and a half that you can promote anything you
Speaker 3: want to promote within the National Park System.
Speaker 4: Okay, I got one rant left my friend who used
Speaker 4: to be a guy that we tuned into all the
Speaker 4: time when I was working in the public affairs office.
Speaker 4: He was working in the the official Park Service public
Speaker 4: Affairs office in Washington, and I asked him because I
Speaker 4: was going to be on the program tonight for some stuff. Well,
Speaker 4: he sent me stuff. Here are the headlines. Kayaking death
Speaker 4: at Cape Hatteras, body of Colorado man found in Frenchman
Speaker 4: Bay Park Visitors cautioned to respect wildlife. Two dead people
Speaker 4: getting lost hiking in Canyon Lands, Texas. Hiker dies in
Speaker 4: Grand Canyon. People, you've got to be careful out there
Speaker 4: these places. Now that in the summertime, with whether it's
Speaker 4: one hundred and twenty degrees, you do not go on
Speaker 4: a five mile hike without water because you die. So
Speaker 4: wake up and think about what you're doing. And by
Speaker 4: the way, don't feed the buffalo.
Speaker 3: Actually, don't feed the buffalo. Don't feed the bears, don't
Speaker 3: feed any of the wildlife, right, do not feed them.
Speaker 3: They're in the woods. And for eons. They have learned
Speaker 3: to eat off.
Speaker 1: The land there.
Speaker 4: That's their house.
Speaker 3: You're only visiting, so you don't need to give them
Speaker 3: a hand sandwich with mayo. No, all right, Dixie, thank
Speaker 3: you Morgan.
Speaker 4: It's been a great pleasure this evening. I'm sorry if
Speaker 4: I had to talk too long, but that story.
Speaker 3: Some days are and you know what, we'll do it again.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: I also want to say thank you to Alan Toles,
Speaker 3: Aaron Murphy, and Jeffrey Sitkov. You all contributed to Night's
Speaker 3: Side and did exemplary work. Thank you for the listeners
Speaker 3: and the callers, whether you did one or both, I
Speaker 3: want to thank you. Thank you to Rob, thank you
Speaker 3: to Nancy, thank you to Gray. And that's basically about it.
Speaker 3: I'll see you on Saturday night when I have mel
Speaker 3: Simon's here in the Morgan Show. Bye, Boston,