The Fays speak from the grave

       Thank you to Tom Osborne who shared these photos of the tombs of Richard Sullivan Fay and his wife Catherine, where they speak from the grave to SAVE SPRING POND WOODS! Richard Sullivan Fay planted at minimum 200 acres of exotic trees imported from all parts of the world. Today the proposed Lowe's/ Super Wal-mart scheme threatens the forest sprouted by him.

      Washington Irving would of said as he did of his friend, Richard Sullivan Fay...

“He who plants an oak, looks forward to future ages, and plants for prosperity.  Nothing can be less selfish than this (...please remember this the next time people are being called selfish for wanting to preserve community heritage and these woods).  He cannot expect to sit in its shade, nor enjoy its shelter; but he exults in the idea that the acorn which he has buried in the earth grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing and benefiting mankind, long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields.”