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According to The Nature Magazine for July, 1927, "The Harvard Forest at Petersham is a perfect forest laboratory, the most interesting in the United States...
This quotation comes from the annual report to President Lowell for the year 1926-27, of R. T. Fisher, director of the Forest. "That it may not be unduly extravagent one is encouraged to believe from the number and quality of the visitors who resort to the forest," he continues. "During the present year the Forest has been shown to more than 150 men, most of them scientific or professional, who came to Petersham to study the demonstrations of forestry in practice or the methods of research. Among them were the chief of the U. S. Forest Service with...
...socially-equal fellow townsmen, Van Wagenen Ailing, became hard up. Lake Forest taxes were so high that Mr. Ailing felt the need of subdividing his estate for homesites. Mr. Alling's across-the-road neighbor, one Benjamin Franklin Affleck, heard of this and telegraphed: "Such concentration of housing and population is entirely contrary to the general scheme of things in that part of Lake Forest. . . . We left Winnetka [modest Chicago suburb regarded by some as a stepping-stone to Lake Forest, by others as a model community] because of numerous small houses built in our neighborhood...
Mayor Dick of Lake Forest tactfully turned the discussion into one of regional planning and asked Realtor Ailing to submit plans of his new subdivision, his "millionairea" as the Chicago Tribune called...
...Harlan Miller, pet-loving Second Secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Paris, brought into Manhattan last week from the liner Paris his wife & pets: 40 fantail pigeons, 18 Belgian hares, two Mandingo parrots, a Belgian police dog, and a Black Forest (German)) cuckoo...