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I've been thinking lately about historical tourism. We live really near Seneca Falls, and its just this dumpy little town. Right next to a nicer, more tourist friendly town that apparently people actually travel to visit. It made me so sad that Skeneatles, which I'm not exactly sure how to spell, and which I don't think has any particular historical significance, is a thriving town while Seneca Falls hangs on the best it can, just like all of these upstate towns do. It seems weird to me that there isn't more historical tourism in the US, and that Seneca Falls isn't a feminist mecca full of communes, CR groups, seminars, organic farms, women friendly sex shops, cooperative schools, and other feminish stuff. (Wouldn't it be cool for me if it was!?)
I've also been pondering esperanto, and this idea that it is a good thing to have a universal language. Was listening to a radio show on language revitalization and thinking about the different ideals of 'melting pot' versus multiculturalism, and what I perceive as a shift in what the 'good liberal' is supposed to prefer.
Also, Watkin's Glen is very cool.
I've also been pondering esperanto, and this idea that it is a good thing to have a universal language. Was listening to a radio show on language revitalization and thinking about the different ideals of 'melting pot' versus multiculturalism, and what I perceive as a shift in what the 'good liberal' is supposed to prefer.
Also, Watkin's Glen is very cool.