The Highland Lodge main website caters to a specific audience
of travelers trying to escape from the banality or stress of everyday life, promoting
a sort of remedy found in nature. Unlike many retreats or resorts, the Highland
Lodge itself is not itself a destination as much as the site is.
People come here to do this so they can post it on Instagram:
Crawford Notch itself has a history and reputation
for its beauty. Famously, many landscapes by the Hudson River Valley and other
artists of the period found inspiration in the raw nature, as one here done by
Thomas Cole.
Art wise, nature here is depicted as monumental, beautiful, and raw, a distinction that was very different to how many European and Western cultures viewed and depicted nature from their literature to their paitnings to nature as either a thing to be cultivated or ordered or something wild, possibly evil, and therefore to be avoided.
speaking of wood. . .
Historically wood has been a primary building material for
many, for its accessibility, cost efficiency, durability, and flexibility, all
factors still relevant in its use today. From a bit of researching across the
web of various woodworkers groups and guilds, most had a decent page devoted to
additional resources and help links for other woodworking sites, many interrelated
with one another, giving the impression that wood workers are really in a tight
knit community constantly reaching out to one another and constantly open to
new innovation. Michael Green starts to really poetically talk about the
sensual properties of wood and its likeness to a human fingerprint, each one unique. Here’s a link to his TED talk on why we
should be build wooden skyscrapers, a pretty crazy idea. I think he's right though, there's a certain sensual sensation, maybe from it's touch or it's smell, or a personal memory, associated with wood which makes it so engaging.
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_why_we_should_build_wooden_skyscrapers.html
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