When Terre Jones embarked on a three-month sabbatical in September of 2008, his goal was to link the beauty and wonder of America’s national parks to the arts. As the president and chief executive officer of Wolf Trap, he aimed to use his passion for photography to record the magnificence of many national parks new to him and perhaps turn the images into projects to further the relationship between them and America’s only national park for the performing arts.
Traveling a circuitous route of more than 18,000 miles, he covered 88 national parks, from Acadia in Maine to California’s Death Valley and Joshua Tree parks. To finalize his quest, he journeyed to Alaska’s Denali National Park in March 2009 for a week that added another thousand miles to his itinerary.
