Monday, August 8
After we ate pancakes for breakfast, we went to Augustus Saint-Gauden's house. It's a national park site. He married a woman named Augusta, and they were called Gus and Gussie. One year they were looking for a summer house, and his friend offered them an old inn that was spider-webby and rundown. Gus didn't like it, but Gussie did. She thought the barn could be made into a studio where he could work on his sculptures and she could work on her paintings. They rented it and eventually bought it.
We also went to Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park. All of the men named in the park, Marsh, Billings and Rockefeller, were conservationists. They took care of the land and wanted to protect it. Marsh could not see well when he was little. But he could see all of the de-treeing of the forests around his home. Billings became wealthy, and he replanted a lot of those trees around the home. When he died, his wife and daughters planted many more. Rockefeller married Billings' granddaughter, and they helped to preserve a lot of the land in our country. They turned the land around the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller home into a park. I thought today was very interesting. It made me think about how I can help protect nature and how it is handled.
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