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THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1921 America's Best Art Represented In MacDowell Home At Peterboro ^•♦ni-'s Note: The accompanying JPVi imd appended letter written by rticleTPn"en president of the North ,n« MacDowell Musical club, a unit, "ft* national Edward MacDowell as- lotinn with headquarters at Peter- Bl uin New Hampshire, will be of in- it to all lovers of the Arts. It is ntitshed here at the instance of both ih» Vocal organization and the national £.«oeiatlon, as being of interest to Hose who cherish the memory of one B America's great composers, who sac- Eiflced his very life to further the Ruse of the Arts in America. By Bertha Harwood-Arrowood [Organizer, North Shore Musical So- . ciety) The car was laboring up a steep aountain road bubbling over with -no not laughter, but with over-ex- tion that foretold a stall. This pre- nonition, or call it experience, hap- necl right in the middle of one of >se steep mountain climbs in Ver- non t. • There they were up in the clouds, dark and ominous with an occasional flash lighting up the end of the day. glorious scene from a.landscape as- Ipect with the mountains as far as the â- eye could scan and lakes nestled in â- the foreground, but a forlorn one for Itrangers in this little occupied coun- try, and night upon them. The surprize came when a powerful car rolled out from the bushes some- where and with the courtesy of the road asked if help was needed. The engine might have cooled off and made the top despite trie heavy camp- ling load, but the nights' destination was in. mind when with a "Yes, thank you" they were towed up midst a cloud of steam from an over-worked engine. r WhejLJLt^jtli^Jt04v_ihe joad friend asked if they were not from a low country â€" "Thought you were, your trouble is not enough gas for this high altitude". What geese they had been to impose upon an innocent machine in that fashion and expect efficiency. You should have seen them speed up and down those mountains, along the banks of the picturesque Connecticut river and on to Peterboro, N. H., with heads in the air. Did you ever try to hold your head in the air with your engine balking? It cannot be done. After being at Peterboro one real- ized that the Edward MacDowell as- sociation idea is as old as the hill?. If the engine of your car cannot go up the mountains without proper con- ditions and fuel how can one expect the human body to do its best with- out being fully equipped. A little while, yes, but the sacrifice of genius and the loss of the worid's best, is ap- palling. So it was with Edward MacDowell, America's greatest creative musician. He' labored, hampered by poverty commercialism and wrong environ- ment, but, like the fatten tree which lies stretched out in front of his log cabin, he dropped and died in his prime. Gift to Posterity He must have known what was within him that could never find ex- pression or he would not have ac- cepted a promise from his wife to make a place for others that our coun- try mi«?ht be the richer in art. Especially now in this war-ridden, jazz age, are the finer things of life needed and their conservation of vital importance. Thi-4 subtle development is effective- ly being carried out at the MacDow- ell colony at Peterboro and more peo- ple should know about it and help it and start the tide all over this great land of ours. VVe go to the theater an see'*Zan- lippe" and "Young America" but do not realize that their author, Fred- erick Mallard, wrote those at Peter- boro disturbed by nothing save his own inner thoughts? Xo one is allowed to go to. the various studios uninvited, even their day is not disturbed by a call to lunch: this is placed on their porch and they may eat it or not as they â„¢c. Sometimes when in deep jhought it is the fear of being dis- turbed thajt irritates more than the reality. | ut here you are sure of no ptrusion. ' Alliiu• de Ville. the French'writer, jvas there this year. Her work, TA1- lemand <!'Amerique, caused her to be cron h, ,1 % the French government. Mrs. Ritchie "Who writes for St olas and other magazines under the name of Elizabeth Weire. Mr. and A|rs- Padfaic Colum also were there; ^n. too. Mr. and Mrs. Parker Fil- ^°re. whose child stories "Hickory Limb" and "Rosie World" written ln«re have so delighted the child- Dear Mrs. Arrowood: The North Shore MacDowell so- ciety is an actuality; it has launched its purpose and is preparing for the test. The committees have been or- ganized, and should now be ready for | action; it is no easy task they are undertaking -*-. to foster American art in an age where the creative abilities of the American are unsupported by his own people, and often ridiculed. But there is great honor and more real joy in swimming against the current than drifting with the stream. It takes perseverance, strength and en- durance to accomplish this. Are we equal to the task? Our native soil is so rich in its man- ifold expressions. Are we blind to see it? Shall we listen to the voices of the thousand year oak, the laugh- ing brook, or the whispering prairie grass? Do we understand the breath and freedom of the.plains, and feel the freshness of the West Wind, the sweetness of the virgin soil and the perfume of God-blessed blossoms? The peak of materialism has been reached; we are slowly steering in the opposite direction, towards a more normal life and higher ideals. I (Continued on page seven) SS I Snap the Changing World The seasons changeâ€" regularlyâ€" The world changesâ€" constantly. Babies grow and change under your very eyesâ€" from cribs to high-chairsâ€" high-chairs to high school. Fashions changeâ€" Death takes its regular toll. 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