[at-l] Same old, Same Old---

[Snodrog5 at aol.com (Snodrog5@aol.com)]

In a message dated 3/21/05 1:40:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
RoksnRoots@aol.com writes:

> Would love to ask Baxter just how much he was influenced by MacKaye? 
> Hmm, a wilderness park built right at the same time as MacKaye's push for 
> regional planning "development"?
> 

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After Percival Baxter planned a park to prevent development of New England's 
most outstanding Mountain, Ben MacKaye was planning building farms, asylums, 
hotels, power generating dams, networks of roads and railroads, and even lumber 
mills to support week long excursions in the woods for tens of thousands of 
city dwellers. It is obvious MacKaye wasn't influenced by Baxter, but it is a 
good thing the Trail was built by Avery after MacKaye's original plans were 
dismissed by the first ATC.