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The words to this beautiful old hymn refer to what has been lost and can only be found in the echoes of the mind. But there is so much of the past that lives with us today. A beautiful old house, an immaculate piece of landscape, or a salt march that provides a safe haven for numerous species of birds, animals, and sea life; they continue to enhance the present and future. Once these places are gone, they will revert to nothing but precious memories, and even then, memories only to those who knew and cared.  For those who come after – nothing. 

Sometimes it would seem that the only connection between the world of the corporation and the world of nature and culture would be a comparison with the proverbial ostrich with its proverbial head in the sand. The mindset of the short term bottom line and immediate price = share index can have little to do with long term business sense, to say nothing of humanity or humility regarding our place in the universe. (Actually, the ostrich shows a greater sense of long term preservation than certain corporations because this behavior is in fact only proverbial or that big bird wouldn’t have survived at all!)

There is an ongoing battle between the people who care and those who don’t about nurturing and sustaining the creative process of life in all of its extensions and expressions. It will certainly never stop as long as the forces of uninformed materialism remain disconnected from simple common sense regarding what is truly informed growth in our world, where nature, culture and economics can work together as a unified whole.  

As a media outlet, we are happy to use the opportunity through both our magazine, Excursionz in CT, and our website Preservationz to call attention to threatened places that express all those aspects of our heritage.

Here are some examples of our current focus: An empty and deteriorating but stunningly dramatic 19th century house located precariously just outside of Durham’s historic district, Madison’s 1931 Griswold Airport adjacent to the Hammonasset State Park’s salt marshes, now slated for destructive real estate development, and Connecticut’s fast disappearing family farms, all of which entail both environmental issues and history.    

These and so many other places sing to all of us, but they give shelter as well as song. A beloved fictional character, Atticus Finch, his surname itself named for a creature of nature, tells his children – and the rest of us, “…it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Let’s do what whatever we can to keep those mockingbirds of the world singing on and on and on.      

Yours truly,
The staff of Excursionz Magazine and Preservationz.
 

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