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October 19, 2005
When Will This Insanity End?
Acre after acre of land all around the metropolitan DC area is being plundered by developers to build house after house on postage stamp lots, totally destroying the very reasons why people want to live here. A beautiful field across the street from us was sold by the church that owned it to make way for HUGE homes selling for two million dollars apiece, on MAYBE 1/4 acre of land. Of course, this meant that all the deer who used that field were displaced and wound up in people's yards, where some would take offense and either call for hunting in residential areas, complain bitterly when their hostas were eaten, or put up eyesore deer fences.
When I moved here 14 years ago, the road to my house was mostly beautiful woods. Now it's hideous McMansions whose presence has caused mini landslides into the main road, displacement of animals, and total disregard for nature of the "greater good."
Will people wake up? Will it be too late? Will my 14 year old daughter have to see trees in museums? Yeah, it's pretty depressing.
Cherry Hill Farm to Close This Fall - WTOP Radio: "Cherry Hill Farm to Close This Fall
Updated: Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005 - 8:33 AM
Mark Segraves, WTOP Radio
CLINTON, Md. - Cherry Hill Farm, a local landmark in Prince George's County, will be closing this fall.
Cherry Hill Farm is where you may have taken the kids for a hayride or homemade pumpkin ice cream or to pick apples or strawberries or see the 600 scarecrows in the fields.
The 130-acre farm, just off Indian Head Highway, where thousands of children have come over the years for birthday parties and magic shows is being sold to developers. The land will become new homes.
The sale will end generations of farming by the Gallahan family. The family has worked the land since before the Civil War."
Posted by mikki at October 19, 2005 11:07 AM
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MM,I am so shocked to learn that Cherry Hill Farms is closing. Worse yet for a Housing Development. I was born and raised in small town called Morningside, right outside of AAFB. I was born in '62 and didn't leave that town until '87, when I had a family of my own. Still we moved to Waldorf and stayed there until '97. My oldest Son, his g/f and my 2 grandchildren are still in Waldorf. Along with EX. Cherry Hill has always been "The Spot" for the Celebration of the Seasons. I have such great memories of going there during the Summer months to pick Strawberries, String Beans. Fall Harvest was always the best. The hayrides, the hot cidar, the pumpkin patch, as you said "the 600 scarecrows", the 'Haunted Barn'. Oh, I remember my oldest son, now 24, almost daring himself to go through that barn. It was funny, but not. Just another of those family memories/moments that can never be taken away. However, they will be taken away from my Grandchildren (who still live in Waldorf) and also my youngest son (if we ever get the chance to visit- I now live in PA and have another precious child) It's one more thing that I and my oldest Son will not be able to share with the younger ones in our family. We will be robbed of not only precious farm land and all that it supplies to Nature and to Us, but the generations now coming forth will be robbed of some of the most simplier and exciting things that Earth has to offer. I try by pictures that my son sends me and by the media to see how things have changed at home. It reminds me of the Joni Mitchel song. "The tore down the trees and put up a Parking Lot." Only these lyrics would go "They tore down the trees and put up a Housing Development." I can remember back in the mid 80's when construction was really starting to take off. A poor spooked deer had found it's way onto the Georgetown Campus. Somehow, it fell into a piped covered drainage area in front of the hospital. Of course, no one could "logically" reason how or why this deer had gotten there. Being a "Tree-Hugger" since I was a tiny child and my parent's also love of Animals, we looked at each other and just shook our heads. We felt like calling Channel 9 and clueing them in on the answer. :) In my humble opinion, as long as people are seeking to "one up the other" I doubt there will ever be an end to this madness. I've seen builder's put homes on less than 1/4 acre lots. They'll get away with as little as they have to and charge as much as they can. They're starting to do it up here in this "so called" quant area that I am living in. It will take them a lot of time to catch up to my home state of MD, but they'll get there. It's a shame. Sorry for rambling. I get excited when I find someone from Home or news from Home. If isn't not so great news. :( To the Gallahan Family, I'd like to thank you for all the years of Fun and Memories. Many Blessings to you and yours. Blessed Be,
Posted by: amethyst217 at October 22, 2005 05:15 PM
Thanks for the blessings. We can only hope that someday, the powers that be decide to throw some curbs on development.
--Kestra
Posted by: ooblick at October 22, 2005 06:26 PM
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