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Edmund Whitman - Anti Damming

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Edmund D. Whitman was a member of the Appalachian Mountain club. He was the only preservationist to testify at the house hearings. He tried to show that the dam will lower the value of the national park as a beauty spot. He concluded with a quotation that without our unspoiled nature to provide a “touch of idealism”, life degenerated into “a race for the rough.”

by Anoushka Bose, Junior Division, Individual Website