Sublime

August 1876, and Walker died two months later. He was seventy-seven years old. The cause of death, says Bil Gilbert, was nothing more or less than ‘having lived long enough’. How to distil that life into six lines, containing

The $15,000,000 bond issue, he said, must specifically authorize the Legislature “to provide for permanent improvements as well as the acquisition of land…for large facilities which make a park accessible and attractive to people.” “Conservation”—the previous park ideal—had to be combined with “recreation,” he said. Furthermore, he said, “permanent