August 15, 2002

the young have never heard silence

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Amy took the kids to Marquette to tour the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw docked at the pier at Mattson Park in Marquette's Lower Harbor.  The Mackinaw is the only U.S. heavy ice-breaking resource assigned to the Great Lakes.  The Mackinaw was constructed in 1944, by the Toledo Shipbuilding Company.  After 57 years of continuous service, the Mackinaw has become increasingly costly to support and is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2006.  Thanks to the warm hospitality of the U.S. Coast Guard, everyone really enjoyed the tour.

New Slide Show!

2002 U. P. State Fair (12 Pictures)

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In 1996 Peter Maxwell-Davies spent a month in the Antarctic hoping to find absolute silence for his Eighth Symphony, which paid homage to Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia Antarctica.  “Once the air was filled with music,” he said at the time.  “Now it is filled with noise.  The young have never heard silence.  In our polluted world they will never be able to hear it.”

Matthew Connolly, reporter, from his Times Online article titled
Come on, feel the silence.

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