NY -- Hyde Park -- Vanderbilt Mansion NHS:
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- Description of Pictures: I'd done the inside tour of the Vanderbilt Mansion last year so I just walked around the grounds a bit this time. (It's a beautiful house though. See it if you can.) This is where I ran into a ranger who was in the mood to talk.
Mostly, she talked about how much she hated Hillary Rodman Clinton. I'd forgotten that I was in New York which became Hillary's Senatorial home ground. I've noticed that most people who detest Hillary don't think much of Bill either. Personally, except for the ghastly problem with Monica, I thoroughly loved Clinton as President.
Between griping about Hillary and gun control, the ranger also talked about how life had changed as a ranger over the 17 years that she'd worked there. She said the attitude of visitors had gotten worse. She didn't mind the people who toured the estates as they had some degree of reverence for the people represented. But the people who figured federal land meant that they should be able to come through on dirt bikes and motor boats really irked her.
The problem, in general, is that our over-consuming society believes everything exists for our own use. We buy these off-road vehicles and snowmobiles to "tame" areas that were already fragile and we beat them into submission.
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- Wikipedia Description: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
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Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, located in Hyde Park, New York is one of America's premier examples of the country palaces built by wealthy industrialists during the Gilded Age.
The property entered the National Park Service in 1939. The site includes 211 acres (85 ha) of the original larger property historically called Hyde Park. Situated on the east bank of the Hudson River, the property includes pleasure grounds with views of the river and the distant Catskill Mountains, formal gardens, natural woodlands, and numerous support structures. The grounds also include Italian Gardens that have been restored by the volunteer Frederick W. Vanderbilt Garden Association. Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856-1938) purchased the property in 1895 for use as a seasonal country residence. A niece, Margaret "Daisy" Van Alen, inherited the property when Vanderbilt died in 1938. Encouraged by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Van Alen donated a portion of the estate, including the residence with most of its original furnishings, to the National Park Service.
The crowning feature is a 54 room mansion by the distinguished architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. Completed in 1898, the house is a perfect example of the Beaux-Arts architecture style and one of the architects' finest residential projects. The interiors of the mansion are archetypes of the American Renaissance, incorporating a range of European antiques and finely crafted period reproductions.
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