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Circleville Farm
Where will the retirement community be created? The prime site is an area known as Circleville Farm, west of the Blue and White golf courses. Apparently it does not matter to the trustees that this rich woods and farmland was promised by the University to the Center for Sustainability as its home and the site for its landmark environmental projects. This property has a long history, a connection to the community, and is one of the last old farms, with buildings, woods and farmland close to University Park.
Circleville Farm is best symbolized by the century-old barn that stands alone amidst the fields, as if protecting them, weathered yet strong and comforting, built with beams hewn and shaped by ax from trees of a size no longer seen in Pennsylvania. The barn evokes the sentiment of hard work and simple living which once prevailed here. We can pretend that sentiment still remains, but such pretenses are belied by this shameless deal. Otherwise, it would matter that a portion of this land was promised to the Center for Sustainability at Penn State for an ecological center. Burying Circleville Farm land under concrete buildings and asphalt roads is more than breaking a promise so the deal can be done. Giving up Circleville Farm is giving up the heritage of State College and Penn State and Central Pennsylvania, which is grounded on the appreciation of fertile land, trust in the forces of nature and faith in one's own hard work and tenacity.
But there was money to be made...to heck with tradition, promises and child abuse!
http://voicesweb.org/archive/sn/piggies.html
Circleville Farm
Where will the retirement community be created? The prime site is an area known as Circleville Farm, west of the Blue and White golf courses. Apparently it does not matter to the trustees that this rich woods and farmland was promised by the University to the Center for Sustainability as its home and the site for its landmark environmental projects. This property has a long history, a connection to the community, and is one of the last old farms, with buildings, woods and farmland close to University Park.
Circleville Farm is best symbolized by the century-old barn that stands alone amidst the fields, as if protecting them, weathered yet strong and comforting, built with beams hewn and shaped by ax from trees of a size no longer seen in Pennsylvania. The barn evokes the sentiment of hard work and simple living which once prevailed here. We can pretend that sentiment still remains, but such pretenses are belied by this shameless deal. Otherwise, it would matter that a portion of this land was promised to the Center for Sustainability at Penn State for an ecological center. Burying Circleville Farm land under concrete buildings and asphalt roads is more than breaking a promise so the deal can be done. Giving up Circleville Farm is giving up the heritage of State College and Penn State and Central Pennsylvania, which is grounded on the appreciation of fertile land, trust in the forces of nature and faith in one's own hard work and tenacity.
But there was money to be made...to heck with tradition, promises and child abuse!