As far as Sinnott was concerned, we had five talks a day. As I recall, they were at 9, 10:30, 1, 3 and the last talk was at 4, I believe. Then we secured it and around 4:45 went up to the Exhibit Building and helped the fellow up there secure that building. I liked the Sinnott. When I was there they had, at the parapet, those displays with the monocular in place, and the back area had the lighted paintings and photos. When Bruce arrived, there was some modification of the memorial as far as the back room was concerned. Some additional feature was incorporated. Dave Dame, who was assistant chief naturalist when Bruce was here, did that three-dimensional display at Crater Lake that was brought up to the Exhibit Building (6). We had the model of Mount Mazama with the removable top that we used as an aid in the Sinnott talk. I didn’t mind that duty at all. I really enjoyed giving the geologic story of Crater Lake and answering the questions. It was just a real natural facility to add to the visitor’s understanding of what they were seeing.
Was the workroom downstairs used at all?
No, not to my knowledge, other than storage. That’s about all I can recall.
Was the workroom downstairs used at all?
No, not to my knowledge, other than storage. That’s about all I can recall.
How long were the talks given by the naturalists?
We were advised very strongly to go no longer than 15 minutes. At first, I thought probably the people would either go less or longer than the 15, but as you gave more and more of them you could get it down to 12 to 15 minutes and cover pretty much the crucial aspects of what we were supposed to cover in the outline.
Then there were generally 10-15 minutes of questions and visitors wanting to talk to you?
Right. It was just a natural place for a lot of visitor interaction with the person on duty there.
