A Most Amazing Retirement Party

Oldest U.S. National Park Ranger Steps Down at Age 100

Betty Reid Soskin, U.S. National Park Ranger, Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historic Park (photograph courtesy of NPS)

Betty Reid Soskin’s long trailblazing life has inspired people of all ages.

On April 17, 2022, a large rainbow crowd gathered in Richmond, California’s Crane Pavilion — former site of the historic Ford Assembly Plant that had produced jeeps and tanks during the Second World War — to celebrate…