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Why Keep it Up?
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Why Keep it Up?
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Years ago a hydroelectric dam was to be built across a valley in Maine. The people in the town were to be relocated and the town itself submerged.
During the time between the initial decision and the completion of the dam, the town, which had once been well-kept, fell into disrepair. Why keep it up now?
Explained one resident: "Where there is no faith in the future, there is no work in the present."
