Writer and historian Wallace Stegner once referred to our national park system as the “best idea we ever had.” If not “the best”, for sure and especially as it has evolved, it was a truly great idea.

Did Abe Lincoln and John F Kennedy have an other-worldly connection? The Oxford English Dictionary defines coincidence as “a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.” Was all of the following simple coincidence? • Lincoln and Kennedy were elected exactly 100 years apart. • They were killed by men born 100 years