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This is a touching and fitting tribute to an NPS legendary great. I still remember how you and I listened to him and eventually dubbed him "Guru Hathaway".
Funny to think that it's been a dozen years since we crammed into that tiny apartment. Also funny to think that we shared our summer of formal interpretation together.
They work for us.
I'm Steve...Gary's son. I'm glad you remember him this way. I do too. I tagged along on thousands of his Stronghold tours...So many that I have the entire story memorized exactly as he used to tell it. I was there when he lead the Modocs through it during the first Indian Gathering in 1990...It was on my 10th birthday. I was there for his last Stronghold tour...Years after he retired he gave it one last time, just the two of us, and just for me.
He retired from the NPS because he was utterly defeated by the bureaucrats. A (now former) superintendent at Lava Beds forced him into early retirement by rejecting every idea he had as the Chief Interpreter. He returned to Lava Beds only once, just for our last Stronghold tour. My mother still refuses to return.
This past summer, I applied at Lava Beds for a permanent position. I received a letter of rejection from the same superintendent. Apparently the Hathaway name is still not welcome there.
With all this said, I am not bitter. It's useless to fight against the NPS brass. I'll make a difference in the same way he did; through the visitors.
Thanks again for this post'I'm now your newest subscriber.
~Steve