On the road to Ann Arbor for the Art Fair this past Saturday, I was reading the Lakeside Book, brushing up on a bit of history for an auction project. I came across a few paragraphs under "Customs of the Camp" that spoke to me. Keeping in mind the past 3 years of legal action, I was moved to ponder a few statements.
In a comment about the community dining hall the author writes: "But sometime in the dim past it became the habit for family groups to eat at the same table in the same place with the senior member of the family at the head. The practice may not be unique but it illustrates the conviction among Lakesiders that family ties and family unity are important." Later the author writes: "New generations will govern the camp in the decades ahead, and, under conditions no one can foresee, new customs will take hold and persevere. One can only hope that friendliness, respect for the land, love of family, and the enjoyment of wholesome outdoor life will be among them."
Time brings change. Change is good as long as the core values remain. Let us all commit to keeping these core values intact for further generations.
14 comments:
Great post!
Be kind to each other, also to the dining hall staff. They work hard for us. Don't be haughty.
David, make amends. As the President of the Camp, you are supposed to be the example.
Have fun at the Ann Arbor Art Fair, darling! Is that the event where everyone spokes hash?
Not exactly, although we walked thru the diag where the hash bash takes place. I'm guessing someone down there was speaking hash!!
Slymie has to be smokin something by the way he acts. Maybe he's in charge of the hash bash.
Did you run into Stu and Kathi$ at the Hash Bash?
If David is setting an example for Lakeside we all are trouble....he has total disregard for his family as well as the best interest of the Lakeside community.
Joey thank you for the insight into the what Lakeside and it families are supposed to be trying to achieve.
Didn't your aunt write the Lakeside book?
No, she didn't write the book but worked with the author along with the rest of the committee. She, Connie Harvey, Lucy Thomson and Julia Brand were the historical committee. The author is Arthur W. Rosenau. Much of the book is based on interviews, correspondence, and diaries. My grandmother kept a diary for 12 years. They used a lot of info from her writings..
I hope you got the diary from the cottage or was that one of the things that turned up missing?
We have boxes of diaries. My great grandmother and great Aunt were prolific writers as well. In negotiating these items David insisted that they be rotated every 6 months. Again, if we wanted something, he became interested as well. Even if he never knew they existed. Like he'd actually read them??
"if we wanted something, he became interested as well. "
That's part of his childlike psychosis. If you claimed not to want those dairies, we wouldn't have wanted them, either.
He's really stuck in the anal sadistic phase of childhood development.
Sounds as if he's still stuck in his childhood moments. He never grew up. Wanting something that someone else has is very childish. Sounds like what my dog does. I hope at some point you read and write down what those diaries say. That would be a great read. I had heard someone from Lakeside recorded Ben Symons about where his favorite fishing spots are. I'd like to hear that. Maybe slymie wants that too. Too bad slym,ie YOU can't have it.
Well, I'm positive that this is what this whole ordeal has been about - his child-like issue with wanting what his big sister has only because SHE has it or wants it.
He had to share the cottage with her? Well, that didn't work because he wanted what SHE had. It only looks enticing because someone else is enjoying it. He doesn't actually give a crap about the cottage OR any of the items that we Lee's put on the list of things we wanted to take with us.
I really don't think it's just out of spite that he does this - I think the person above me was right... he's stuck in some weird childlike psychosis... Never grew out of it. My six year old daughter is already growing out of it, which says a lot about a man who is seventy something.
And I realllllly hope I can read those journals one day. I started reading them a few years ago when I was up at the lake and was really intrigued... :)
Your right Katy, He doesn't give a care about the cottage. He only cares about winning or stealing in this case. He only ever wanted the cottage to call his own. He doesn't care about family or anything that was in the cottage until someone else wanted it. History or family heirlooms wasn't an issue until someone became interested. It's all about the joneses. He's jonesing now by the way he stole the cottage. He can't even pay for someone to visit him at his stolen cottage. Glad he is the only one in Lakeside that doesn't care about history. Why I'm sure he tries to get that cottage smell out by putting up air fresheners to get that old beautiful cottage smell out of the place.
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