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My great grandfather was Samuel Lancaster, who designed the Columbia River Scenic Highway. He was so in love with the Gorge that he wanted to build a road that emphasized the terrain and the vistas that we experience today. Lancaster's view of the gorge possessed the conflicting ideals of his time: a providential gift to be revered and protected; and yet the road paved the way for further defilement of the greater NW and indigenous lifestyles.

Peter McMinn

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I wonder how much of this story may be in line with Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund, and other stories of the dynamic between the need to participate in society or to investigate the inner and spiritual aspect of self.

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