NPS Photo Read With a RangerThe National Park Service Stewardship, Preservation and Youth Development Office has partnered with the New York Public Library (NYPL) - South Beach Branch to implement the NPS “Read With a Ranger” program to support children's literacy. About the National Parks of New York Harbor (NPNH): NPNH stretches from the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan into Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island and beyond to New Jersey. NPNH includes 12 national parks with 22 natural, historic and recreational sites. These national parks preserve special places that tell the story of America and its greatest city, from the nation's early defenses to its first steps as a new democracy, from waves of immigrants to the rise of a commercial powerhouse. They include international icons and places of extraordinary beauty where you can experience our history and natural heritage on land and on water. 
NPS Photo Seniors: you have a superpower!Reading cursive writing is becoming a lost art. A ranger from NPNH will come to your facility to tell seniors about the Revolutionary War Pension Files project. These files are preserved by the National Archives and Records Administration. Our hope is to encourage some of them to volunteer as transcribers of Revolutionary War Pension Files. These handwritten documents, written in script that can be hard to read at times, contain untold stories from Revolutionary War heroes and their families.Interested? Please email us. |
Last updated: May 22, 2025