About our Region
"Awaken people's curiousity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good flamable stuff, it will catch fire."
- Anatole France
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Rhode Island, Vermont.
About our Region
The Northeast Region membership stretches from Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada, to the CentralPark Wildlife Center in New York, New York.The region encompasses the North Atlantic Coast, the northern Appalachians, and a human history that dates to 10,000 years before present. Interpretive sites are maintained by national, state, county, municipal, local and nonprofit organizations. Interpretive themes cover an enormous range, from historic agriculture to recreation to the revolutionary and civil war, ocean dune environments and fragile alpine ecosystems.
The Northeast Region has a history of cooperative efforts to provide information, training and social interaction for its members. One of the best known of these is the Interpretive Training Institute (ITI), which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 1997. A committee of interpreters from a variety of organizations design a three day training, using the skills of the staff from these groups. Over one hundred seasonal and full time interpreters are trained every year. Almost every member of the ITI planning committee is an NAI/Northeast Region member.
