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| Final Photos-June 1, 2006 |
Hey Day - High Over Highlandlake Fundraiser - August 23, 2003
Watch as we work on saving the Historic Highlandlake United Church of Christ - Congregational church building (a community center since 1917). We will be posting photos of the work process as we go, so check back often.
Emergency repairs - Work started in May 2003
Emergency Repairs finished in September 2003
Work on Phase 1 started July 2004
Phase 1 is completed in January 2005
Phase 2 - final
Started February 2006. Finished Date June 2007 - Final
Photos
To Be of Use
The people I love best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.
I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.
I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters,
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.
The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.
--Marge Piercy
This page was updated on October 9, 2009