...of a drowning victim. You don't have to be a great fan of Edith Wharton, or even a fan of houses built by the overly-rich to want to have a literary artifact saved for the future generations of America. I don't want to hear about poor management, blah, blah, blah. If we have decided, as a country, that Edith Wharton deserves to be remembered, honored, then the government ought to pay for the upkeep. In fact, the government has a responsibility to maintain a lot of stuff that actually helps out the country, whether it be a writer's big house, or the Anasazi ruins, or Walt Whitman's grave. Or the site of the first trading post in Wisconsin, & how that trading post led to the decline of the neighborhood.
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