Donald Trump’s seaside golf course held up by Scottish quarryman
ABC News is asking if Donald Trump has met his match. Trump is trying to build a golf course with homes and hotel on 800 acres in Scotland. Michael Forbes, a quarryman and farmer who owns the adjacent land is holding out on selling his 23 acres. Trump thinks Forbes’ property is a disgrace because it is run down and includes, among other things, a rusty tractor that Forbes supposedly uses on the beach (with salt water causing the rust). What ever happened to places having character based on both the physical elements and also the people whose families have resided on the land for years.
It makes me think of places like Maine being populated purely by wealthy people from Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. Why bother? Places are people as much as they are landscapes. There is no authenticity in Trump’s plan. It’s a shame, too, since Scotland is one place that I feel can occasionally justify building golf courses based on its historical connections to the sport. Feel free to read the full article here.
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Posted on October 13, 2007
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