American Experience talked to William Tweed, the chief park interpreter for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. about Kings Canyon, a place that Ansel Adams helped make a national park.
Ansel Adams, age 4, survived the deadly 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but was tossed face-first into a garden wall, giving him what his friend Cedric Wright would call an "earthquake nose."
Due to the earthquake of 1906, San Franciscans had to delay their grand plans for what was to become the Panama Pacific International Exposition. But by 1909 the city had recovered sufficiently for its residents to focus on the exhibition again.
