America can’t agree on its own story. This park ranger tells it anyway.

Park rangers are practiced at telling America’s origin story at a challenging time to tell it. “We do the Fourth of July every day,” Michael Doveton said.

When he applied to be a park ranger, Michael Doveton dreamed his office would be a mountaintop. He ended up in Philadelphia.

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