Scenes from the Field: 2025
At Hermann Grima+Gallier House Museums Summer Camp. Gaynell is presenting the story of Laurette, an enslaved woman who worked at the Gallier House Museum. This one-week camp is offered annually. The camp is intentionally designed to offer an intimate connection with the history of the site. Dr. Amy Medvick and Gaynell collaborated to create a program that led the kids on a journey to assist Laurette.
Submitted by Gaynell Brady.
Left: A young guest learns how to protect and create a safer home for the less than 350 critically endangered North Atlantic right whales left by harvesting lobsters in an environmentally friendly way (with ropeless gear or by hand) at a cart with a conservation learning educator.
Right: Mesmerized by the light of a tube full of moon jellies, guests learn about the characteristics of jellies that have allowed them to not only survive but thrive for millions of years.
Submitted by Meghan-Elizabeth Foster.
Left: Apparently, Mother Nature approves of Jonathan Kranz's mushroom interpretation program.
Right: Interpreter Jonathan Kranz conducting a mushroom walk "table talk" as seen through the filter of one of New England's deadliest mushrooms, the Galerina marginata.
Submitted by Jonathan Kranz.
The rising cohort of new interpretive trainers, seen here in the NAI Train-the-Trainer Course held on September 25, 2025, at the Alice B. Gorman Conservation Center in Kansas City, Missouri, hosted by the Missouri Department of Conservation.
Submitted by Chuck Lennox.
The Contraband Historical Society booked a private tour with Historical Interpreter Melanie Roberts. Melanie’s tour covers 400 years of enslaved and enslaver history at Berkeley Plantation. Some of the first Contrabands at Fort Monroe came from Berkeley and other plantations along the James River.
Submitted by Melanie Roberts.
Bringing trees back from the brink of extinction, and sharing this work through an Oak Preservation Interpretive Sign, in 2025 at The Dawes Arboretum in Newark, Ohio.
Submitted by Beth Spieles.
Park Interpreter Maureen Stine teaching a young blind camper how to ice fish during Maureen's interpretive program for Opportunities Unlimited for the Blind held on Walloon Lake, Petoskey, Michigan, during Michigan's Free Fishing Weekend in February 2025.
Submitted by Mo Stine.
Traveling Miss T. trying to take a selfie with a Ferruginous Hawk and Park Ranger Danica Medina for the interpretive program Explore San Diego County Parks in Potrero County Park, San Diego, California.
Submitted by Natalie Teboul.
CIT Instructors and graduates of the Certificate of Interpretive Guiding course at Clark County Wetlands Park, May 2025, celebrate the completion of their training with laughter and camaraderie.
Submitted by Monique Thompson.
At the Bob Tyler Fish Hatchery Visitor Education Center, owned and operated by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, we host special fishing events for those with physical and cognitive disabilities. This program has increased in popularity and participants. Since we began in 2016, over 1,000 individuals have participated. We now host special events in partnership with other organizations to expand this outreach—what we call a "Reel" Need. These images highlight our Fishing Days!
Submitted by Emily-Jo Wiggins.
Built in the mid-19th century, the Kapitan Lay House in Pangkalpinang, Bangka Island, regained its vitality after undergoing a major restoration during 2014-2016 and an adaptive reuse afterward. Bangka and Belitung Island Tourism Office facilitated the development of interpretive tours of the house, along with other two sites, in 2025. A team consisting of the house owner, a local guide, a vocational high school teacher, a local tour operator, and a local Chinese culture and history researcher worked together to prepare the tour. The photo shows one of the team members leading a discussion inside the house.
Submitted by Wiwien Wiyonoputri.