It's got to be nearly a decade ago that some friends and I visited Jacobsburg State Park. It was a special come-one, come-all event for the park, which is a lovely place. The public took up the invitation in a big way; people were walking along the roadways, through the woods and across the meadows, four abreast.
This gave me a very unpleasant feeling about the future. If this forested area was--at least temporarily--as populated as a town, what would happen in the future? Where would people go to recreate and to find their souls when the rest of New York arrived here to live?
I found no answer; but New York seems to have arrived. I sympathize with thse people; obviously, they need the peace and quiet we have had all these years. Unfortunately, their arrival in such numbers--25 a day, according to the Morning Call-- means we no longer have it, or will not have it for very long.
What can be done about this? Not much, alas--except to vote to preserve as much green space as we can still get our hands on.
And, for that matter, get our new neighbors to register to vote and do likewise.
After all, saving open space is in everybody's interest. When it's gone, it's gone.