Touring Stan Hywet seemed so much different than just going through the gardens. Outside it was more beautification and inside was wealth. Which the family was very wealthy for their time. Time seemed so relaxed than. Now society is just about wealth, obviously the Seiberlings lived the best. They weren't very showy though. Also, families were huge back then. Families were big so most families could run things like a farm on their own.
Hale farm has decreased in size since it first was established and is still now, huge. The workers and family definably put a lot a work towards it. It was cool to see how people could rein act that. Our actor that we interviewed told our group so much about sour kraut that I didn't know that there was that much history.
Overall it was a great learning experience and should definitely be kept on the Valley voyages list of trips.
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Heh...this totally baffled me for a second when I saw something about Stan Hywet posted in between entries about the Valley.
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I think Evan raises a good discussion point about the way wealth is covetted and treated in the past as opposed to today. Is it different? Did the uber-rich handle their status in society better then or now? Were the Seiberlings robber barons? What about their philanthropy?
I think these days we just have a different idea of what defines luxury. Back then, it was all beauty and the presentation of the home, and now we seem to just care about having high tech gadgets and fancy cars. Things that make our own lives more convenient, or give ourselves more bragging rights, not so much to share it with others, as the gardens did.
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