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7.26.25 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to raii's Children's Story Hour. As a reminder,
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REALI is a reading service intended for people who are blind.
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Are the other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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printed material. Today we will continue with stories on camping.
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Your reader today is Diane. We will continue with the
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story from last time as is force mors, a camping alphabet.
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It was published by Sleeping Their Press. It has a
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copyright of two thousand and seven and the author is
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Helen Foster James. In this for mountains where bear cups
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play an eagle sore, where camper sikes so close to
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clouds and ask for nothing more. Mountains and their fourth
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are favorite camping destinations. Higher evelations usually mean cooler weather.
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Campers should pack one clothing and always remember to take
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rang gear. Sometimes campers prepare for dramatic changes in altitude
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by slowing down their activities when they first arrive at
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high elevation. Some people get drowsy or even ill at
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high altitudes. Always tell an adult if you do not
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feel well. An instrument called an altimeter gives the elevation
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and feet or meters above sea level. When hikers start
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their hike, they check their elevation or altitude with it.
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When they reach the highest or lowest point of their hike,
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they check it again. By comparing the two elevations, they
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find the elevation gainer loss made on their hike. The
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Appalachian Mountains are the oldest mountain chain in North America.
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North America's highest mountain is Mount McKinley. It is twenty
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three hundred and twenty feet tall and is located in
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Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, Whileoming's Grand Teeton National
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Park was formed by earthquakes over the past thirteen million years.
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More than one hundred alpine legs are in the back country,
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and the t Ton Range is forty miles long and
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is for night sky. Far from the city lights, find
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polarists pointing north and other famous sights. Many people know
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about noise and water pollution, but there's also a light pollution.
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Excess light caused by humans. City lights make it difficult
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to see stars, but campers can see a dazzling display
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of stars on clear, cloudless nights. Long ago, people gave
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names to groups of stars, constellations that form shapes. A
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star chart labels these constellations the Big and Little Dipper
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are two that are easy to find. The Little Dipper
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is important because polarists the north star is at the
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end of the handle. On a clear night, campers can
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use stars to orient themselves and find north stars. Shooting stars, comets,
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and planets are easier to be with the telescope or binoculars.
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The moon has twenty nine point five day cycle. When
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it is waxing or getting bigger, the crests and faces left,
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and when waning, the creston faces right. The moon grows
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from no moon to full moon to no moon again
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during each cycle. Some hikers like night hikes, especially when
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the moon is full. Campers bundle up and take a
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flashlight to hike at night. Oh it's for organizations that
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share and teach their skills to those of us who
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love to camp and hike among the hills. Boy Scouts,
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Girl Scouts, Campfire, YMCA, YWCA, the Sierra Club, and other
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similar organizations teach beginner's new skills and help advance campers
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improve their skills. As campers gain skills, they plan longer
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strenuous camping trips. These organismszations protect our environment by teaching
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about nature and how each person makes a difference. The
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Sierra Club is the oldest environmental organization in America. Chapters
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in the United States and Canada organize classes, outings, and
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trips throughout the world. Some schools organize camping trips for
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sents during the school year. The great Outdoors becomes the
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students classroom. They become familiar with the flora and fauna
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flowers and animals that live in nearby wilderness areas. They
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learn about journal and nocturnal animals, animals that are during
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the day or evening. Students learn basic camping skills. They
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work with their classmates to appreciate and protect the environment
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and act responsible with the Earth's resources. National Wildlife Week
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is sponsored each year by the National Wildlife Federation. It
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was started to help people enjoy the outdoors and to
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encourage conservation. If ps for many parks, let's pick a destination,
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then pack our gear and go explore for a wonderful vacation.
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There are great camp sites in national, state, regional and
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private parks. Upon arrival, stop at the park's visitors center
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for up to date safety information and an overview of
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the park. Schedules of campfire programs and nature hikes are
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posted there. And on a campsite bulletin boards. This information
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helps visitors decide what to do during their state. Camp
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Sites can be reserved in advance, online or by contacting
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a park. Some camp sites are first come, first served.
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It's smart to plan ahead when camping at popular campgrounds.
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Acadian National Park was the first national park established east
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of the Mississippi River. Located on the rugged coastline of nine,
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it has mountains, woodlands, lakes and ponds to explore. NUF
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National Park was Canada's first in the world world's third
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national park. Melt water from Victoria Glacier mixes with glacial
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silt and rock dust to give fans Lake Louise's beautiful
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blue green color. The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, including Van
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of Jasper, Yoho, and Kutenay, are a World Heritage Site.
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The United States has over fifty National parks. More than
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one hundred and twenty countries have established over one thousand,
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five hundred national parks throughout the worlds Q is for quiet.
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Take time to listen. What's that you hear? A call,
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a chirp, a little coup? Is it far away or near?
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Listen carefully? Do you hear those birds. They make interesting
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calls and songs. Campers might hear the squawk of a
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blue jay, the mournful call of a mourning dove, or
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the busy pecking of a woodpecker. Birds make noises with
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their wings and bills. Que is also for quill, a
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bird you might see running and scratching the ground for food.
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What is your states burd? Have you ever seen or
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heard one? Binoculars in a field guide are important bird
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watching gear. Field guys identify birds with photographs and descriptions.
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Binoculars help birders examine a bird's coloring, beak, and claws.
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An orphan tholologist is a zoologist who studies birds, but
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bird watching or birding is also a hobby. Some birders
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keep a list of their bird sightings. Birds aren't the
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only animals making noise. There might be toads singing and
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croaking from their watery home. At night. The yip and
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hal of cowldies may break the evening quiet. Be still
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and listen to the sounds of animals. Remember you are
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of this sort. To nature. R is for rangers who
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teach us all to care for the beauty and the
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wildlife of all the land we share. Rangers perform many
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different duties that are important for campers. They preserve and
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protect national parks. They help keep visitors safe. They teach
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visitors about protected areas, natural and cultural resources. Their job
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requires that they love the environment and work well with people.
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When national parks began, only men were rangers, but sometimes
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their wives helped them with their duties. The first women
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rangers were called rangerets. Claire Marie Hodges Wolfson and Helene
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Wilson were the first women they hired. They were hired
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in nineteen eighteen as temporary employees. Now both men and
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women are rangers. Rangers need our cooperation. Everyone can help
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By learning about national parks, forests, and other protected lands.
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All of us can help protect the beauty, history, and
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culture of an area for future visitors. You might want
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to become a junior ranger and learn about a park's wildlife,
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history and geology, and how to protect a park. Offer
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online Junior Ranger programs. National parks have activities to complete
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to receive a badge patch or Junior Ranger certificate, as
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is for stories and psalms to share. When the day
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is done, we enjoy our campfires, want and make yummies'mores
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for some fun. A campfire is a favored evening camping activity.
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Friends and family gather at the end of a busy
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day to tell their favorite stories, jokes, and to sing songs.
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Everyone likes to learn a new song, story or joke
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to share around the campfire. Campfires should be made only
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by adults and only where campfires are allowed. Campsites usually
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have fire rings, so do not make a new one.
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Children should never use matches or fire starters. Never make
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a fire where fires are not recommended or if the
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fire danger is high. Campfires should be placed a safe
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distance from tents and overhanging tree branches. Be careful around campfires.
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Be sure a fire is completely out or dead before
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leaving it. Carelessness can start a destructive fire. Campfire builders
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will need wood. They'll also need kindling, small sticks, wood shavings,
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dry leaves, grass, or needles. Not all parks allow the
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gathering of fire materials, so first check and follow all
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park rules. Some campgrounds provide or sell wood. Once the
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fire started. Small wood is gradually added to keep the
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fire burning. Do not use green or freshly cut wood.
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As the fire grows, larger pieces of wood are added.
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Adults may want to bring a hatchet to cut firewood,
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keep a bucket of water and a shovel nearby to
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control the fire. S is for s'mores? What are s'mores?
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They are a yummy dessert sandwich made it a campfire.
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Why are they cosmores? Because when campers eat one, they
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always say I want some more. No one knows who
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first thought of this delicious treat, but the first known
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recorded recipe was in nineteen twenty seven book Tramping and
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Trailing with the Girl Scouts. August tenth is National s'more stay,
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but every camping trip is fun. Time to enjoy this
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tasty treat. Some'mores are easy to make with an adult's help.
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The ingredients are Graham crackers, chocolate candy bar, marshmallows, equipment,
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a roasting stick or long fork, campfire, an adult to
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help you. First, get two gram crackers. Then put a
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thin chocolate candy bar on one of the gram crackers.
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Put a marshmallow on a roasting stick and roast until
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it's toasty gold and brown. Slide the marshmallow off the
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stick and onto the candy bar. Be careful, the marshmallow
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will be hot. Place the other graham cracker on top
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of the marshmallow like a sandwich, Eat and say yummy,
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I once more Tea is for the tracks we find
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pressed upon the ground. Traces of our animal friends lie
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waiting to be found. Every animal leaves a unique print
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track in the sand, snow, along a dirt trail, or
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in the moist stt by the water's edge. Animals don't
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cover their tracks. They remain as evidence that the animal
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has traveled through the area. Look carefully around the camping
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area to find hoof or pawprints. Think about an animal
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that lives nearby and find its tracks. Is it bigg
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or a small animal? Which direction is it traveling? These
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clues tell us about animals that live nearby. Print track
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books help identify an animal by matching prints with the
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book's illustrations. The track book isn't handy. Make a sketch
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of the track and check at the visitor center to
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identify which animal made it. Animals leave other clues that
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till they've been in the area, including scatch their drop beings, antlers,
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feathers or hair bears, leave claw marks on trees. Some animals,
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including deer, lose their antlers every year to make way
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for new ones. Become a nature detective and watch for tracks, pawprints,
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and other animal evidence. You is for the underground, hidden
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burrows out of sight, dug by those who need a
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home safe from harm. Both day and night. Campers see
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a variety of animals on a camping trip, big and small,
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but there are also animals living underground. Some live completely
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underground their entire lives. Others have homes below ground but
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come out to play or hunt for food. This protects
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them from weather and predators. Hose are entries to underground homes.
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Experts can look at a hole and know which animal
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lives there. Be safe and never bother an animal home.
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Mountain campers might see marmots. They are the largest member
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of the squirrel family and live in underground burrows. Adult
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marmots are one to two feet long and have long
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furry tails, short legs, and strong claws for digging. One
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marmot remains on guard and makes a special call to
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warn other marmots of intruders. They eat plants and grow
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fat by fall, and then they hibernate, which is sleep
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through winter in their burrols. Kangaroo rats live in Rocky
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and sandy desert soil. Their burrols enter the ground at
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an angle. They stay in their burrows all day and
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only come out at night when it is cool. These
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for views and vistas of deserts and forests in sky
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with an awe inspiring beauty so pleasant to the eye.
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Hikers must stop for breaks to drink water and eat
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high energy snacks. This gives their body time to refresh.
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Breaks are great for admiring the view. Campers watch clouds
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and notice they're changing shapes, or find birds thorn in
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the sky or tucked in a tree. Early risers are
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treed to beautiful sunrise, and hikers like to watch the sunset.
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A pan of paper and pencil and a day pack
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are handy for sketching. Some campers pack color pencils or paints.
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Others write what they do and see in their journal.
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Look carefully and take photographs to remember interest sits. Sketches, written,
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memories and photographs can be compiled to make a memory
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album of a camping adventure. Directions for making an album
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are at the back of this book. The Blue Ridge
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Parkway is a popular National parkland. It winds through Virginia
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and North Carolina. Connecting Shenandoe and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks.
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Over sixteen million people visit this area each year to
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camp and stop it overlooks to admire views ws for
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camping in winter for those who are willing to go
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and follow a path through the forest on snowshoes or
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skis over snow. Winter campers snowshoe, cross country, ski and
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ice fish shelters might be a tent in eglue or
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a quinsy, a shelter made by piling snow. Tenters use
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dead man's steaks to hold tents secure. To make a
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dead man dig a trench more than a foot deep
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in the snow at the tense corner, places stick in
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the trench with a cord from the tent corner, hold
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the courts free end, and fill the trench with pack.
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Snow pulled to tighten the cord and the tent corner
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is firmly tied down. Winter camping requires warm and waterproof clothing.
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Gators cover boots and pants to keep snow out of
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Waterproof boots, a knitthat gloves, insulating underwear and jacket are
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must have for every winter gear list. Campers must prepare
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for cold nights. Sleeping bags are rated by the lowest
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temperatures in which they'll keep a camper warm. They are
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identified by which seasons they will be usable. Winter campers
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need a four season sleeping bag. Mummy bags are tapered
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and tight to keep in body heat. They are excellent
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for winter camping. Eggs is toward two trails. Now, which
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way should we go? North or southeast or west? A
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trail map helps us snow Trail signs help pinpoint a location.
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On a trail map, they mark the direction in distance
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to a destination the trail is not visible, Rangers or
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hikers make ducks stacks of small rocks to clearly mark
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the trail. Hikers keep safe by staying on well marked trails.
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Hiking off the trails unsafe destroys fragile plant life and
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causes erosion. Map reading and pathfinding skills are important to hikers.
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They navigate by using a map and compass to find
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their location. To learn to use a map and compass,
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have the ranger or leaders show you where you are
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on the map. Align the magnetic north arrow at the
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bottom of your map in the same direction as your
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compass needle. By orienting the map You can look on
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the map and see a feature, for example, a mountain,
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and look in the same direction to see it. A
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topographical map shows the location of mountains, trails, streams, campgrounds,
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and other features. It also shows the steepness of the terrain.
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Even if you have a GPS Global Positioning system and hiking,
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you need to take a compass. Using a map and
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compass helps keep hikers safe. Why is for Yellowstone Park,
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where bison and moose freely rong, where Old Faithful sprouts
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every hour, and bear's and elk make their home. Located
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in Wyoming, Mounttana, and Idaho, Yellowstone was the world's first
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national park. John Culture was first white explorer to visit
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this area. He joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in
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eighteen oh three and explored the Yellowstone area in eighteen
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oh seven. In eighteen seventy two, Congress declared in the
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national park when they sell photographs of its amazing beauty
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and geothermal wonders, they wanted to preserve this area and
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protect its fragile resources. Yellowstone has more hot springs and
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geysers than any place in the entire world. Old Faithful
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is Yellowstone's most famous geyser. On average, it erupts about
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every seventy four minutes and shoots stick and boiling water
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over one hundred feet into the air. Yellowstone is also
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known for its animals, including elk, moose, bison, and bears.
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Important safety tip for every camping trip is to never
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approach your feed any wildlife, big or small. Remember keep
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safe and let all animals remain wild. Z is for zippers.
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On your cozy bag in tent nested away, you'll fall
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asleep dreaming of places you went. Zip is the sound
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campers here at the end of a camping day. Zippers
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create doors and windows for tins. A zipper runs down
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the side and across the foot of a sleeping bag. Warm, clean,
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and dry sleeping bags filled with down, soft feathers or
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other insulating materials keep campers cozy. An insulating pad under
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a sleeping bag helps keep a camper comfy and even warmer.
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When campers are ready to hit home, they break camp
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and gather all of their longings. A camp site should
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always be left as cleaner or cleaner than it was
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when the campers arrived. Follow this model. If you packed
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it in, pack it out. Don't leave anything that shows
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someone has been camping. Campers don't need to travel far
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from home to camp. Backyard camping is fun. Get you
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a chance to try out gear and practice putting up
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a tent. In fact, if you've never camped, it's smart
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to practice camping in your own backyard. No matter where
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your camping takes you, you should sure to have excellent
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camping adventures. Take going memories, leave nothing but footprints, Chief Seattle.
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A new story is about telephones, and it's called The
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Four to one One on Phones. It was published by
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Simon Spotlight, the imprint of Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing
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Division has a copy right here of twenty fifteen. And
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the author of our book is Camera I'm More. Chapter one,
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The first phones Bring answer the phone. It's for you.
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You take this call. That is, if you read this book,
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you'll learn the amazing history of the telephone. Here's one
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fastback for you. The word telephone is made of the
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Greek words for far, tele and sound phone. That makes sense,
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doesn't it. Think of all the ways that the telephone
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makes your life easier. Without telephones, it would be hard
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to let your parents know that your sports practice is
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running late without telephones. How could you call your grandmother
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to say happy birthday. Telephones are a really big part
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of our lives, but how did they come to be.
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It's always been important for people to be able to
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communicate over long distances. For centuries, this was done with
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smoke signals or the sound of drums, letters carried from
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one place to another, or messenger sent to deliver news.
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These methods were all used before electricity was more common
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in the nineteenth century. There is, however, a phone that
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can be made without electricity. He might have even made
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one before. All you need are two tin cans or
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paper cups and a piece of string. Simply connect the
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strings to the inside bottom of each cantercup, pull it tight,
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and then speak into one end. Someone on the other
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end will be able to hear what you said. Unfortunately,
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this phone also works over short distances. Most historians consider
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Alexander Graham Bell the official inventor of the telephone, but
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other scientists before him helped to make the invention possible.
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For instance, before Bell invented the telephone, Samuel Moorse developed
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the electric telegraph in the eighteen thirties. The electric telegraph
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was a little like a long distance typewriter. He used
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Morse code, which was a code of long and short
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pulses dots and dashes made by electric current. Each combination
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of pulses stood for a different letter. Then along came
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Alexander Graham Bell. Bell was born in eighteenth forty seven
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in Scotland, though his family later moved to Canada. By
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eighteen seventy one he was living in Boston, Massachusetts. From
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a young age, Bell was interested in speech. His mother
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was almost deaf and his father was a speech teacher.
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Bell became an expert on acoustics, the sound study of sound.
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So a young man, he took what he knew about
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the electric telegraph and added the element of sound. Bell's
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harmonic telegraph or musical telegraph let telegraph companies send several
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messages at once. But Bell had another idea. He wanted
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to invent a device that used electricity to transmit speech.
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Remember the tin cup and string phone. Bell's invention used
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the same basic idea sound travels through line, but Bell
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ate electricity, which was at the time a pretty new
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field itself. It's hard to imagine today because electricity is
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such a major part of our lives that back in
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the eighteen seventies, even electric light bulb were rare. It
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would take until nineteen twenty five for half of the
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homes the United States had electricity. Bell didn't really know
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that much about electricity, so he hired an electrician, Thomas Watson,
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to help him with his new invention. But at the
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same time that Bell and Watson were working away to
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invent the telephone, American inventor named Alicia Gray was working
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on the telephone, and both Bell and Gray wanted the
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patent for their invention. What's a patent, you may be wondering.
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A patent is issued by the government and protects an idea,
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giving inventors ownership over their ideas so no one can
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steal them or take credit for them. Bell filed his
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patent application first, just hours before Gray filed a caveat
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or intent to file a patent, on February fourteenth, eighteen
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seventy six, so Bell was the one to get the
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patent for it. For that reason, he is known as
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the inventor of the telephone phone. On March tenth, eighteen
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seventy six, just a few weeks after he found his
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patent application, Bell spoke the first words to ever be
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heard over a telephone to his partner Watson. Bell's words were,
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mister Watson, come here, I want to see you. Watson
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was able to hear Bell through the early telephone even
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though he was in a different room. If you had
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been the person to make that first phone call, what
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would you have said? Soon the Bell Telephone Company was
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formed and the first permanent phone wires were installed. Can
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you imagine how exciting that must have been. Business people
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quickly realized how much potential this invention carried. They knew
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that once the word got out about telephones and the
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technology became more advanced, it wouldn't be long before the
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telephone business became a big money maker. Right away, different
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companies began fighting over the technology in patents, just as
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phone companies continued to compete for customers today. But Bell
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was an interest in that things. He just wanted to
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keep doing what he loved, which was studying science and
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inventing new technologies. So he left the Bell Company and
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moved on. He wound up being granted twenty nine more
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patents for his various inventions. We will finish this story
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next time. This concludes our children story our for today.
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Please join us next time as we will read more stories,
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