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For the last twelve years of my life, I've jaunted the well-ambled Clearlake Avenue nearly every day. It has always bestirred with change; mostly insignificant. The lanes have been widened, storms tattered some dilapidated apartments, a new high-rise was built near the overpass, and the grocery store's succession of owners is longer than the list of British royalty.
However, there are landmarks that apace the avenue that leave the most vivid delineation. The sky would be rendered rather vacuous if not for the antique automobile suspended majestically on its throne outside of Patriot Auto Sales. The overpass may serve as one of the only sites in all of Springfield to view the city from a moderate enough distance and high enough elevation to behold everything it has to offer all at once. And one of Springfield's eldest buildings stays perched emphatically at the front of its lot that we call the Adams Wildlife Sanctuary.
Recently the Audubon Society justified the termination of the Adams House with reasons amounting to no more than a heating bill (which proper insulation could neutralize) and a lack of meeting space (in which case an add-on should be more than adequate). It isn't even as though the Society has been financially strapped by structural maintenance, seeing that this building is just as foundationally sound as anything else on this end of town.
The city of Springfield has always prided itself on the historical value that each step into town beholds. As far as east of downtown goes, nothing precedents the history of Margery Adams and her estate, especially when accounting for the shelves full of documentation covering the Adams family at the Illinois State Historical Library.
It is also true that elementary and middle schools from all ends of the city visit the orchard every year. The field trips assist in scientific fields as students observe the growth patterns of the greenery, as well as they build on knowledge of Social Studies and History as students learn about the estate and the historical building.
It seems that the Audubon Society has no concern for the interests of the people of Springfield, and has forgotten about how this is a city of history and that just as much pride is taken into our architecture as are the things that happened and the people who lived here. I may have to shed a tear in November if that building really does fall, as it will only remind me of our lack of appreciation of what's truly important.
However, there are landmarks that apace the avenue that leave the most vivid delineation. The sky would be rendered rather vacuous if not for the antique automobile suspended majestically on its throne outside of Patriot Auto Sales. The overpass may serve as one of the only sites in all of Springfield to view the city from a moderate enough distance and high enough elevation to behold everything it has to offer all at once. And one of Springfield's eldest buildings stays perched emphatically at the front of its lot that we call the Adams Wildlife Sanctuary.
Recently the Audubon Society justified the termination of the Adams House with reasons amounting to no more than a heating bill (which proper insulation could neutralize) and a lack of meeting space (in which case an add-on should be more than adequate). It isn't even as though the Society has been financially strapped by structural maintenance, seeing that this building is just as foundationally sound as anything else on this end of town.
The city of Springfield has always prided itself on the historical value that each step into town beholds. As far as east of downtown goes, nothing precedents the history of Margery Adams and her estate, especially when accounting for the shelves full of documentation covering the Adams family at the Illinois State Historical Library.
It is also true that elementary and middle schools from all ends of the city visit the orchard every year. The field trips assist in scientific fields as students observe the growth patterns of the greenery, as well as they build on knowledge of Social Studies and History as students learn about the estate and the historical building.
It seems that the Audubon Society has no concern for the interests of the people of Springfield, and has forgotten about how this is a city of history and that just as much pride is taken into our architecture as are the things that happened and the people who lived here. I may have to shed a tear in November if that building really does fall, as it will only remind me of our lack of appreciation of what's truly important.