Fwd: RE: SG-W:/ Newmarket, again!

["Christina Lirones" <goldenspiderfarm@hotmail.com>]

Woody sent me this and asked me to forward it. That farm is now owned by 
Alfred and Janice Harwood, who are angrily determined to see a "town built 
there with streets named after theeir family. Additionally, they purchased a 
lovely old wooded parcelfrom the Lutheran Church and logged it out under the 
guise of Agriculture, so Newmarket could avoid having to preserve all the 
trees that were huge on the parcel. I know Bill iiiifarms near Barry, but 
here the Harwoods own a lot of land and are shopping it all to the highest 
bidding developer. Tina


>From: Woody Kellum <lwk@caen-exch2.engin.umich.edu>
>To: "'Christina Lirones'" <goldenspiderfarm@hotmail.com>,        
>smartgrowth-washtenaw@great-lakes.net
>Subject: RE: SG-W:/ Newmarket, again!
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 10:31:00 -0400
>
>
>My first job (@$1/hr) when I was 16 years old was working for
>Webb Harwood on the farm that still exists, but which I understand
>is going to be part of the Newmarket development. It's the house
>and red barn on either side of US-12 just west of Platt Road. He
>told me back then that he was not the type to move to Florida, and
>that he would keep farming as long as he could. I know that he loved
>that farm, and he did stay there until both he and his wife moved to
>the Evangelical Home in Saline. I also know that he was offered a LOT
>of money to sell in his later years. You can see his picture on
>the wall of the Pittsfield Grange Hall. I can't say that during the one
>summer that I worked for him, that he imparted
>much intellecutally that I use today, but I'm sure he's at least
>partly responsible for my involvement in land preservation today.
>
>Christina - Please forward this to the smartgrowth list, since my
>membership  "lapsed" when I changed e-mail addresses.
>Thanks.
>	- Woody Kellum

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