Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Pastorale Americana

It's an old-school attitude about the new world, that pile of hundred year old red bricks that we call "Falling Downs."

And Falling Downs is an attitude every bit as much as it is a 1900 square foot red brick farmhouse.

It hails from an era when humble farm folks could put up a sturdy two-story brick homestead from what they and their hundred acres could produce.

Falling Downs was built before Henry Ford had invented the five dollar day.

I'm sure Henry Ford had no idea what he unleashed.

Suddenly the masses could believe in progress.

Through the magic of an endless cycle of manufacturing and consumption, we would boot-strap ourselves from a subsistence agrarian economy to a modern industrial one.

That was our first mistake.

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