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Posted by: Caryl (Casandra4@aol.com) on 6/05/1997@16:02hrs:
In Reply to: Re: "IN MEMORY" of Staten Island, from Days Afield on Staten Island by Wm. T. Davis, 1892, 3rd printing 1937, reprinted 1994 by the Staten Island Institue of Arts & Sciences posted by: Lee on 6/05/1997@01:31hrs:
Yes I do. I'm from Great Kills too, albeit I'm ten years younger than you are. But I moved to northern Vermont in 1972 and have watched the clouds drift over fromt he Adirondaks across Lake Champlain on a warm summer evening with nothing but the sounds of crickets chirping and the splash of water against my canoe. That was last summer. God if the locals only knew how quickly these everyday things become lost memories, they'd be fighting off development with more fervor. Vermonters don't give in as easily as Staten Island did. Its environmentally more aware and people have come here from places like your Great Kills, trying to find a little piece of the past. They try fighting off the Walmarts and the highways and the housing developments, but somehow mankind seems bent on destroying its most precious possessions in exchange for the lure of money. I don't think we'll end up quite as bad, but we'll lose a lot before people realize what's slippled through their fingers. Sad.