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AN article in the October 11 issue of The New Yorker magazine ought to be required reading for all public officials —and concerned citizens as well—in Virginia’s beautiful and still rural Piedmont. Entitled “Reflections: The Suburban Landscape, Oyster Bay Long Island,” the article describes the destruction of a once lush and productive agricultural landscape by the forces of “development,” land speculation and “progress.”
On Long Island, author Susannah Lessard notes, corrective efforts were attempted “only after the pattern was set—when crossroads that once nourished quiet nodes of life had already turned into cloverleafs, when traffic jams were a fact of daily existence, when the individual ugliness of cheap commercial buildings had become a collective norm. Concern for the delicate balance of the environment suffered the same tardy awakening; it came after the air was laced with exhaust fumes, after detergent foamed in the drinking water...”
We have noted before how Long Island is now the scene of a pioneering effort to try and preserve some of the farm land still left in that area, through the purchase of development rights—thereby
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