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• W641074668 abstract "O n a beautiful late September day, just 2 months before he was assassinated, President John F. Kennedy spoke from the front porch of Grey Towers, the Milford, Pennsylvania, estate of Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946), founding chief of the USDA Forest Service. His visit served two purposes. It kicked off the president’s 5-day, 11-state “conservation tour” during which he would deliver a series of addresses on the environment to buttress his conservationist credentials in a society shaken by the searing images of a poisoned nature depicted in Rachel Carson’s seminal Silent Spring (1962). His presence in Milford also marked the Pinchot family’s gift of Grey Towers to the nation, and the establishment there of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies. “By its nature,” Kennedy assured the large and boisterous crowd, the Institute “looks to the future not to the past. And the fact of the matter is that [it] is needed. . . . more today than ever before, because we are reaching the limits of our fundamental need of water to drink, of fresh air to breathe, of open space to enjoy, of abundant sources of energy to make life easier” (Kennedy 1963). Although the president did not know it, his dedication of Grey Towers as a critical site for the dissemination of conservation education in America—a task it has successfully carried on since 1963—was in keeping with an earlier dedicatory moment held at the estate, this time on Aug. 11, 1886, Gifford Pinchot’s twenty-first birthday. The family selected that date to celebrate the completion of Grey Towers, their summer home, and did so in a manner that signaled their escalating focus on conservation. One sign of this was the birthday present they purchased for their oldest child, Gifford, and that was given to him by his younger brother Amos—a gilt-edged copy of George Perkins Marsh’s book, Man and Nature (1864); this was the key nineteenth-century text warning humanity that it must adopt comprehensive principles of land stewardship if it hoped to survive. His argument had a powerful impact on those, like the Pinchots, who lived in and profited from, the early stages of the American industrial revolution (Miller 2001). Putting word to action, the senior Pinchots had committed themselves to repairing the denuded hillside on which their home had been constructed, planting trees and laying out gardens. As Gifford advised his mother several months earlier: “there are already enough trees planted on the place to take away any feeling of bleakness” (Pinchot 1886). Land restoration has continued at Grey Towers, such that its once-logged over and badly eroded terrain has been replaced by magnificent forest cover, an enduring testimony to the Pinchot family’s long-standing conservationist ethos." @default.
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• W641074668 title "A transformative place : Grey towers and the evolution of American conservationism" @default.
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