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CHANGES BEAUTY VS. BIG BUCKS In the headlong rush for development and profit, will the high country ' s greatest attraction - scenic beauty, be destroyed? ARTICLE BY ANGELO CERCHIONE PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID HUNTLEY Someone sees an outlandish gas station or an obtrusive condominium and reacts to the sight. Tutored or untutored, he or she knows that something is wrong and asks, Why do they permit this to happen? The question takes us back to Earth Day and the words of the most often quoted possum of the seventies, Pogo: We have met the enemy and he is us. The problem is one of aesthetics - of the violation of beauty and the thoughtful preservation in the midst of necessary development. No one runs for office in this area with a campaign slogan that blares: We gotta stay beautiful! and yet, most people are drawn to the area or refuse to leave it because of its beauty. In this beauty, there is more than satisfaction. There is also money. Look at the numbers. This area entertains a million tourists a year who spend $45 million while visiting. That $45 million stimulates other spending as it trickles down from some 1,600 people directly employed in tourist-related industries to others - a multiplier effect five times greater than the initial expenditure. Economic studies show that this figure will increase, if permitted. If permitted brings us back to aesthetics. Those with money and mobility come here now because of our visual amenities. Consistently, tourists answer the question on survey after survey, Why did you come to this area? with one word: scenery. To them, every other attraction is considered secondary. Unfortunately, that scenery is becoming frayed. Uncollected roadside junk, uncon- demned derelict housing, indiscriminate tree cutting, obscenely large signs, flashing lights, grotesquely-colored ser- vice stations, violated flood plains, gouged and ungrassed banks - all offend the sensibilities. Understand, this is no list of complaints by the prissy. People with money come here to enjoy the scenery. When the enjoyment is diminished, the moneyed and mobile will move away and find a new beautiful place. When they do, a quarter billion dollars will go with them. Of greater importance, but harder yet to teach, is that beauty is a measure of environmental health. We look in a mirror to learn something of our condition. Some of us still need to learn how to look into nature ' s mirror and measure fitness. But not all of us are blind to the importance of environmental preserva- tion, for there have been important steps taken to repair damage, educate the laity, and make things right. The state ' s ridge line legislation and Boone ' s tree preserva- tion and sign ordinances are recent positive in steps taken by local and state leaders. These steps have been taken none too soon. The southeastern and central sunbelt is attracting more and more Americans who are escaping the cold north. The move into the south-west will be slowed by the diminishing water table, making the beauty and water-rich Ap- palachian mountains even more popular. The test of the future is how well we can accommodate growth (for the courts will not act to stem the tide by closing the door to migration) and preserve a prudent degree of environmental health. In the mountains of North Carolina there is nothing frivolous in lobbying for aesthetics. It is a measure of our health and an indication of our ability to cope with all of those tomorrows.
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During the first few days of the 1983 faltj semester, workmen came to Boone to dismantle the windmill. At top, the burning off of bolts to allow crane operators to lower the blade to the ground. Middle, one blade has been removed. Bottom, the first blade comes to rest on the ground.
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