It is great to see what good use is being made of this wonderful park paid for by all of us for all of us. If the Tea Party and Georgia Republican Party have their way we can kiss these kinds of things goodbye. They are closing State Parks and cutting the remaining ones to the bone. (My students will not have tour guides at Etowah Mounds next year.)
The GOP has forgotten that Ben Franklin believed in public libraries and public postal service, that Teddy Roosevelt championed public parks and public healthcare and fought robber barons and monopolies, that US Grant saved Yellowstone for all of us, Benjamin Harrison, TR, and Woodrow Wilson worked to save the Grand Canyon, Franklin and Jefferson both contributed to the Library of Congress. That Jefferson spent $15 million to expand the country to twice its size then commissioned a scientific expedition to study the new purchase. And Truman saw that the general welfare of OUR country was wrapped up in our Alllies' recovery from WWII and authorized the Marshall Plan.
There is nothing unAmerican about all of us working together for the general welfare.
And BTW if the City of Rome commissioners have their way, the wetland across from this park will be filled in along with the duck pond, Burwell Creek will be actually destroyed and replaced by a man-made channel (ditch) farther toward Riverside, then our public land will be sold for a song to private developers, and a new strip-shopping mall will be built splitting the city's civic center/Jackson Hill area from the rest of our central park (Ridge Ferry). Grrrrrrr!!!!!! Let's stop these folks from messing up this area for our children and grandchildren! |
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