Gateway Arch National Park Superintendent Mike Ward talks with host Sarah Fenske about his 37-year-long career with the National Park Service. He started working at the Abraham Lincoln National Historic Site in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, when he was just a teenager. After eight years of experience, he took on a more supervising role at the Ulysses S. Grant Historic Site in St. Louis. His took his expertise with him to renovate the Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota. But when the Gateway Arch underwent its $380 million renovation in 2016, Ward came back in St. Louis to lead the project. Ward talks with Fenske about those cherished sites and what it takes to keep them going.
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