Maybe Edward Abbey was wrong

In "Desert Solitaire," Edward Abbey's book inspired by being a park ranger at Arches National Park in Utah, he claimed that people working for the park service hate being posted to "battlefield" parks and other places that were not vast stretches of wilderness. I suspect he'd be even more appalled at the idea of serving in one of the city parks. Probably not everyone would agree.
The schedule for the Lowell Folk festival mentioned a parade. The friends we were with wanted to see it, and there was no music scheduled opposite the time (a weird thing, actually - there is about a 1/2 hour or so span in which none of the stages has any music - is that supposed to be a dinner break? People eat all day, so that doesn't make sense). We watched the parade. It turned out to be a truck with music, followed by a group of park rangers, a troupe of people wearing those big glitzy feathery Caribbean parade costumes, and a bunch of festival-goers marching along. What made me think of Abbey was the rangers - as the parade turned the corner, heading towards Boarding House Park, they formed a conga line. At least at that time, they didn't seem to be wistful for wilderness.