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Grant H. Pearson
PHIL NEWILL AND GRANT PEARSON first got together in the spruce grove at McKinley Park headquarters back in the summer of 1946. Pearson was park superintendent, and Newill was using a vacation from ...view morePHIL NEWILL AND GRANT PEARSON first got together in the spruce grove at McKinley Park headquarters back in the summer of 1946. Pearson was park superintendent, and Newill was using a vacation from the advertising business in New York to roam around Alaska collecting material for travel articles. They hit it off at once. It was Newill’s idea that no vacation should be used for anything but traveling around viewing as many as possible of nature’s spectacular chunks of scenery. He had become dedicated to telling other people this fact...if you can be said to be dedicated to something you thoroughly enjoy.
This attitude toward life and nature started in Portland, Oregon, where Phil Newill grew up and spent his non-school time hiking and camping on mountains, lakes and rivers, climbing Mt. Hood, riding a bicycle from Portland to Los Angeles, and engaging in other field-and-stream types of activity. At Stanford University he got bitten by the typewriter bug, edited the college newspaper, and in a few years found himself in New York writing advertisements around such headlines as “Nature in the Raw is Seldom Mild” (as any woods traveler knows).
It was a natural for Phil Newill and Grant Pearson to team up. As Newill says, “Grant is the kind of guy who has lived a life that is exciting to hear about...and even more exciting to write about.”view less