I did not realize til I got incoming this morning from Fort Worth's Top Watchdog, Don Young, that today, April 22, was Earth Day.I worded that poorly. I knew April 22 is Earth Day, but today, that fact failed to register til Don Young reminded me.
Okay, that was worded slightly better. I'm losing my ability to communicate, apparently.
I wish I could have celebrated Earth Day with an early morning swim. But, my pool lost all its water.
The first Earth Day was on April 22 of 1970. It was a BIG DEAL. Protesting was very popular back in those days. If I remember right, on the original Earth Day, some very bad Viet Nam War news hit the public, as in Nixon had expanded the war into Cambodia.
I wonder if Steve Doeung remembers when the Viet Nam War came to Cambodia?
The Cambodia expansion caused all sorts of protesting. If I'm still remembering right, these were the protest episodes that saw the murder of 4 Kent State students by National Guard troops.
We live in such calmer times these days, though the naysayers don't seem to realize it.
Don Young's incoming had a very interesting bit of history in it.
On April 22, 1960, 10 years before the first Earth Day, the Fort Worth City Council, led by Mayor Thomas A. McCann, agreed to purchase the land now known as the Tandy Hills Natural Area.
From the city record..."a resolution enacted by the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, at a meeting regularly held on the 22nd day of April, 1960, does promise to pay, $138,250..." for the Tandy Hills land.
I don't know what $138,250 is worth in 2010 dollars, but it sounds like Fort Worth got a super bargain back in 1960.
Who knew Fort Worth was so Progressive, so Green, so long ago? The foresight of Fort Worth's 1960 City Council and Mayor preserved a prairie wonderland for generations to come.
Which will be celebrated this coming Saturday at the 2010 Prairie Fest.
See you there!
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