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The Endurance of Faith

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We give thanks to God whose power is revealed in nature, and whose providence is revealed in history.

Ted will be guiding the next historical tour of St. Mary Cathedral on Saturday, November 17, at 1 PM. The group will meet on the front steps of the cathedral immediately following the 12 noon Mass. For those not familiar with St. Mary, the cathedral is located in Austin, Texas, at 203 East 10th Street, the corner of Brazos and East 10th.

During this tour, Ted will discuss topics as diverse as the restoration of the Catholic Church in Texas following the Texas Revolution, the design of the cathedral by Texas’ first trained architect, Nicholas Clayton, and the history of the stained glass windows that adorn the church. Join us at St. Mary Cathedral on November 17, and experience for yourself the endurance of faith.

Ted will also be talking about interpreting churches and sacred spaces at the Real Places 2019 conference in Austin. The conference is sponsored by the Texas Historical Commission and extends from January 16-18. Ted will be speaking on Thursday, January 17, from 11:15 am to 12:30 pm. His talk is titled “Open the Door – Interpreting Historic Churches and Sacred Spaces.” We hope to see you at either or both of these events!

NCTC Gateway Gathering

Summertime

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Red-billed tropicbird, Great Bird Island, Antigua, by Ted Lee Eubanks
Red-billed tropicbird, Great Bird Island, Antigua, by Ted Lee Eubanks
Summertime, and the living is easy? Hardly. Summer is the season for field work and for bringing projects to completion.

This summer I have visited Antigua & Barbuda on two occasions. The first visit (in spring, actually) consisted of a week of constant field work. I returned in late June to conduct a two-day workshop on avitourism in the region. With this workshop the project is complete.

Here are links to the various materials related to the project. We thank our client, the Environmental Awareness Group, as well as countless friends and supporters in the islands, for their help and aid in this important project.

Avitourism in Antigua & Barbuda (Final Report)
Antigua & Barbuda Photo Gallery (Images)

An article about our work in Antigua & Barbuda will be published on the Nature Travel Network blog soon, and we will post a link to the article as soon as it is live.

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Fermata’s Ted Lee Eubanks at the National Conservation Training Center

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Ted joined a panel of nature tourism experts at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) in Shepherdstown, West Virginia this week. The panel presented and discussed nature tourism and the implications for federal public lands. Joining Ted on the panel were Mike Carlo and Toni Westland of the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Nancy Millar of the McAllen (Texas) Chamber of Commerce, with Nancy Zapotocki, Kevin Kilcullen, and Randy Robinson (all of the USFWS) providing behind-the-scenes support and guidance. This broadcast is the first presented in the USFWS Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Conservation series. Here is a link to this 90-minute broadcast. For those interested in additional information and resources related to Ted’s talk, we have added a page to our website with links to a broad collection of papers, reports, books, and presentations.

For those interested in watching the 90-minute segment, please use this link NCTC Human Dimensions in Conservation Series

NAI in St Paul

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NAI met in St Paul MN this week. Fermata exhibited earlier in the meeting. Ted held a workshop on the Tao of Interpretation on Saturday, the last day of the workshop. In fact, Ted presented one of the last sessions on the last day.

Needless to say, the crowd had thinned considerably. Those in attendance, however, were enthusiastic participants. This is a new presentation, and the crowd tolerated a few rough bumps. For example, the NAI inexplicably did not arrange for internet in the presentation rooms. Imagine giving a presentation on new media without access to the internet. In any case, the group that attended seemed unbothered by the glitches.

The presentation below is the one Ted gave at NAI. Please remember that all of Fermata’s work is protected under a Creative Commons license. You are welcome to use this material with attribution. The presentation is followed by a slide show of photos Ted took this week in St Paul as a demonstration for the guerrilla interpretation session. Click on the first photo to go directly to the gallery.