Summer Flashback

I just came from the annual meeting of the Mohegan Colony in Crompond, NY. We enjoy a wonderful lake and a community rich in history. As we were working on ideas of how to improve the lake and keep our community vital, someone suggested forming a relationship with a local university to possibly start an environmental project with the students.
I was reminded of the vacation place my family visited when I was a child in upstate New York. Shortly after our families stopped going to the lake, Hartwick College took over both the lake and the surrounding buildings and cottages. Since 1971 it has run an environmental program for the college students. As a result, all these years later, the program has helped lots of kids get interested in studying the environment and perhaps some of them will be the ones that rescue us from all this global warming that's going on. I felt really close to that land and am so happy to find out that it has become a home for such a positive program.
By the way, you can still rent the cottages in the off season and there is neither cell phone or TV reception. Sounds like my kind of place........Pine Lake near Oneonta, NY