My memoir takes the reader from my formative years sitting on the bank of the sweet flowing stream or “gully” running behind our house in the Jamaican countryside, through national parks from the US Virgin Island to Alaska, in the boardrooms of national conservation organizations, and in the leadership of a growing movement of African Americans relishing the Great Outdoors. It shares the elation my husband Frank and I felt upon finding Black History rife in the National Park System, and our efforts to communicate these stunning accomplishments to the American public. It summons Black Americans to get to know and take pride in the great legacy our ancestors created for us, and to do our part in protecting the parks and public lands for the benefit of this and future generations, while also helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is the perspective of a Black leader steeped in every aspect of the American environmental movement since 1995.