“I couldn’t ever think that I won’t go to the lake today.” – Faina Ridgway

“Up until very recent times, ownership of this indispensible commodity has been concentrated in the hands of a few. The fact that today virtually every person in America can own some of this previous thing is probably the greatest single social advancement in the annals of the human race. Ownership of one unit gives dignity to Man; ownership of more than one gives him prestige. What is this remarkable commodity? It is land, of course – land for people to build on now, or to hold as an investment.”


General Development Corporation. “The Amazing Opportunities of Sound Florida Land Investment Now.” Advertisement. The Wall Street Journal: Pg.17. Mar 11, 1963.

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It is the capacity of the arts to make us, if not at home, at least alertly, answerably peregrine in the unhousedness of our human circumstance – George Steiner