One guest, a violinist, revealed in a short speech that he learned on a trip to Yellowstone how highly regarded the book by his musician friend really is. A park ranger told him that Yellowstone Treasures was the best guidebook to the park he’d ever seen. He realized then that the book was by the cellist he enjoys playing chamber music with.

Two granddaughters, one from New Jersey and one from Berkeley, watch Janet as she blows out her candles.
—Beth Chapple, editor and daughter of the author