Tim knows I appreciate history, artifacts, learning from our past, connecting dots, and a good road trip to the mountains. So, we packed the hybrid with binoculars and walking shoes, a cooler of salad makings, thermoses brimming with great French Roast and fresh cool water. After an easy, nutritious breakfast we drove north up Ste Route 30 into the Adirondacks for an inspiring and soul-nourishing experience of the Blue Mountain Lake Museum.
A colorful "campus map" landscaped the network of walkways connecting a range of separate galleries and life-size dioramas that began with The Great Outdoors! This gives families an opportunity to pre-experience this time and space through immersion in Adirondack play and adventure.
As exposure to our natural outdoors began this tour, we were reminded palpably that Americans (both Native and Euro Pioneers) began building their lives by engaging nature the way we found it. Its what every successive generation has done, does do: engage the environment as we find it...hope we always engage it resourcefully, and ever more compassionately, wisely, conservatively.
We launched OUR day-long tour rushing onto WORK IN THE WOODS...an in depth exposure to the world of logging life through video, dioramas, audio and artifact. Spell-bound, awed, invigorated by Work In The Woods, two take-aways walked with us thereafter:
1. survival instinct, risk-taking, perseverance and ingenuity combine within, between and among individuals, couples, families, towns, and landscapes to formulate social interdependence which builds a government that serves further shared needs.
2. one enterprising individual, couple, family, and town engaged in the art and work of livelihood generates opportunity for others to respond in kind: one work begets many other supportive, complementary, and entirely opposing work forms. People build lives through work we create ...for ourselves and for other people.
Mitt Romney would appreciate the Blue Mountain Lake Museum. He would recognize the microcosm of relationship among People-Enterprise-Government. I suspect that every visitor to the Blue Mountain Lake Museum leaves awed by the inherent truth experienced, "gets it."
People generate livelihood, not government. Government is an afterthought we create to serve our shared needs later down the road when we decide the time has come for us to formalize the tacit agreed upon rules we decide best guide our enterprise. Barack Obama needs to experience the inherent truth that cannot be overlooked at Blue Mountain Lake Museum.
Through art, the final galleries entitled "A Peopled Wilderness" summarizes our story of the flourishing northwestern United States, an infrastructure of our networking past -built through the hard work and entrepreneurial spirit of an enterprising, pioneering free people.
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