National Park Service

Northeast Region

**Memorandum of Understanding**

**with the Europarc Federation**

Northeast Region Park Questionnaire

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| Name:      | Maryanne Gerbauckas                                     |
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| Position:  | Superintendent                                          |
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| ### Park   | Edison National Historic Site                           |
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| **Heritage |                                                         |
| Area**     |                                                         |
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| Address:   | Main Street and Lakeside Ave, West Orange, NJ 07052     |
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| Tel:       | 973-736-9218                                            |
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| Fax:       | 973-736-8496                                            |
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| E-mail:    | <Maryanne_Gerbauckas@nps.gov>                           |
|            |                                                         |
| Web Site:  | [www.nps.gov/edis](http://www.nps.gov/edis/)            |
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Yes, we are interested in sharing information and expertise with a
protected area in Europe.

*If you are currently working with an area in Europe, please note that
here:*

No, we are not interested.

*Please state reason:*

**1. If yes, on which topics would you be interested in pursuing
cooperation?**

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  organizational development          ecotourism

  sustainability                      marketing

  multi jurisdictional management     education

  financing                           other (please state) wildlife
                                      management
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**2. If yes, what type of communication exchange would you be interested
in?**

at staff level (professional development)

at partner level (Presidents, Board Members)

other stakeholders (e.g. farmers, tourism businesses)

*continued \....*

3\. If yes, please give a [short]{.underline} description of the
features of your park and main areas of current work. Please note the
cultural and/or natural connections/similarities to countries/places in
Europe if possible:

Edison National Historic Site preserves the Laboratory and the Home of
Thomas A. Edison, America's foremost inventor. The Site's century-old
structures house some of the nation's most significant collections in
the fields of sound recording, motion pictures, and electrical lighting.
The collections include 400,000 artifacts, 48,000 sound recordings, and
5,000 pages of historic documents. Glenmont, the Edison estate, is a 29
room Queen Anne style mansion. In contrast to the industrial nature of
the lab site, it offers insight into the private life of the Edison
family. Two European collaborations we would seek would be with the
London Science Museum & the British Library Sound Archive. The first for
its technology collection and the second for its specialization in
cylinder records.

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  Signed: Maryanne Gerbauckas         Date: 6/27/03

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Please return by June 28, 2003 to: Edie Shean-Hammond

e-mail: <edie_shean-hammond@nps.gov>

fax: 215-597-0815