Wonderful John Muir Performer, Lee Stetson at South Pasadena Library Tomorrow, Saturday, November 9 at 3:00 p.m.

A one-man play entitled “The Spirit of John Muir” and featuring famed Muir interpreter Lee Stetson will be presented in the South Pasadena Public Library Community Room on Saturday, November 9 at 3:00 p.m. Lee Stetson has regularly performed as Muir to audiences from around the world for 25 years in Yosemite National Park, as well as for many distinguished theaters, museums, and parks around the country. Lee also portrayed the groundbreaking naturalist/renaissance man in the critically-acclaimed Ken Burns PBS television series “ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” and was accorded top billing above such names as Tom Hanks and Peter Coyote.

John Muir was born in Scotland in 1838 and, like so many others, came to the United States in 1849. He became an accomplished author, inventor, naturalist, and explorer, and one of the founders of the Sierra Club., Muir has been widely acknowledged as the “Father of our National Parks.”  Muir became friends with South Pasadena’s first Mayor Donald Graham and his author wife Margaret Collier and planted a lemon eucalyptus tree which still survives at their Wynyate estate. John Muir died in Los Angeles in 1914 and was named the “Greatest of All Californians” by the California Historical Society in 1976.

Stetson’s performance will present thrilling, first-person retellings of some of John Muir’s most famous true life adventures in his beloved Western wild lands. The free, lively program is for all ages and presented by the South Pasadena Public Library, the Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library, the Pasadena Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Woman’s Club of South Pasadena, and the Living History Centre Fund. The Community Room is located at 1115 El Centro Street. Doors will open at 2:30 p.m. and refreshments will be served. No tickets or reservations are necessary.