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| Old newspaper clipping |
I have hundreds of photos of the Buffalo National River during its first few years, 72 through 75. I was a naturalist in the first years Buffalo Point was a state park. As Chief Naturalist for the state of Arkansas, I hired young men as summer naturalists for 5 state parks. The trails you walk at Buffalo point today and the amphitheatre where programs are given are trails me and my naturalists built. The amphitheatre is still where I laid it out and with my fellow naturalists, built log benches. I offered the National Park Service more than 200 slides I took back in those early days and they refused them. It does indeed hurt that they will not recognize what we did there. When I went to work for The National Park Service at Buffalo River I intended to make it a career. Then I saw what they were all about. Someday I will write about what I saw, even the pot and alcohol parties in park cabins put on by a park employee where Yellville kids as young as 16 were welcomed. And two of the dumbest NPS men I have ever seen in charge of anything. They thought the local people were in a class below them… I know… I was there! Enjoy the photos, some are of Buffalo point as a state park, and some when it became a national park.
Amphitheater photos are from ‘71
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