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Mary Jane Colter: architect: called "the best-known unknown architect in the national parks," Mary Jane Colter left her mark on a profession and on our parks.

Summer, 1932. Only a hint of first light glows in a sky spread over the Grand Canyon like a starsprinkled blanket. A sliver of birdsong whispers from the juniper branches. On the east end of the South Rim, construction is under way on the Watchtower. Near its base, there is a quick movement, a wispy figure walking, stopping, and walking again, nearly invisible but for the on-again off-again glow of a cigarette, like the flash of some nervous firefly. The figure flits to one spot, watching the way the morning shadows etch the tower walls, to another to check the silhouette against the early sky, and another to gauge the shade of the stone in the palette of morning light. It is ...

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