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Article: Good morning, Mr. Adams: in 1943, a young student encounters one of the legends of photography in the place that made him famous.(REFLECTIONS)(Ansel Adams)
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- June 22, 2009
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As a pretty green kid going on 17 years, I was probably overly enthusiastic and a little nervous about my first real big job. The year was 1943. World War II had been under way for a couple of years, and older boys at our high school were being encouraged to take summer jobs with the National Park and Forestry Service program due to the acute shortage of labor. High school seniors and young college men were being employed to clear trails, fight forest fires, or do blister rust control in our nation's forests and national parks. Luckily my high school chum, Dick, and I drew Yosemite National Park in California as our place of work. It was a ...