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Mapled Crusaders
Community forests help revitalize New England towns |
Wayne Curtis |
23 Feb 2006 |
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| Beyond a set of granite gates on a hillside in Rumford, Maine, a lost city sits amid silver maples and oaks, just across the river from a sprawling paper mill. It's called Strathglass Park, and it's a vestige of an experiment in corporate benevolence. Designed in 1904 by noted architect Cass Gilbert, who later designed the Woolworth Building in Manhattan and the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, t ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, local politics, New England, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment, wilderness (all these topics) |
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