This was our view at the weekend as Leesa and I visited friends at their camp on the Great Sacandaga Lake in the Adirondack Park. It’s a beautiful place which, in the native language, means land of waiving grass. It was created in the 1920s by damming a river that had flooded towns and villages for decades. In doing so, 1,100 people were forced from their homes and twenty four cemeteries with 3,872 graves were moved. Any barn, house or shed left behind as the dam neared completion was burned. Now the lake is the center of sport fishing, tourism and vicious real estate infighting. Living in this paradise requires strict adherence to linguistic rules as is now explained.
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