> There was an "Ark" on Prince Edward Island, located at Spry
> Point. It no longer functions as an Ark, but is an restaurant,
> open during the summer. We were there about one month ago.
> If anyone wants to contact the present owners, I can locate an
> address.
>
> Bert Christie
> Research Station
> Charlottetown, PEI
>
>
>
They paved up the Ark put up a restaurant...
Hearing this makes me feel sad and nostaligic. I don't know why
this fact should cause this as opposed to other facts. I had known
that New Alchemy was gone for some time. I guess it just takes me
back to being a bright eyed college kid reading the Journal of the
New Alchemists and think this is part of what is going to change
the world. Here was some part of a way out of the self destructive
nightmare that we have boxed ourselves into. The Ark was (in the
publications at least) a manifestation of the best of the spirit of
the New Alchemists. The refusal to sit by documenting destruction
like an environmental Cassandra, but to jump in and try to find
positive approaches. Their creativity, intuition, respect for knowledge,
love of the best in the scientific method, were to me inspirational.
As an organization composed of fallable human beings New Alchemy
certainly had its faults, as does any institution. But they had
a go at it. My (virtual) hat is off to them.
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"The fault dear Brutus lies not within our stars but in ourselves."