November 21, 2009
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Land of the Pilgrims?

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July/August 1997
By Elaine Robbins, Utne Reader (commerce.cdsfulfillment.com/UTR/subscriptions.cgi) 
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But we cannot fault today's pilgrims; at least they are searching. Even if the RVers in Yellowstone neglect to leave their worldly possessions at home, it's clear-when they jam on their brakes to gaze in awe at a herd of elk grazing in the wild-that they don't fail to understand the sacredness of their journey. As landscape scholar J.B. Jackson says in The Necessity for Ruins, "The inspiration of tourism is a desire to know more about the world in order to know more about ourselves. If we offend public taste, that is only incidental to our search; the Swiss cuckoo clock, the bumper sticker from Carlsbad Caverns is a type of diploma-proof that we have at least tried to improve.

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