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Saturday, July 23, 2005
Parque La Sabana, San Jose, Costa Rica (3)
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Nice to see that the beauty of La Sabana Park is appreciated by a North American like you, who has probably travelled the world! It is only sad that the Sweddish botanist Alfredo Anderson Sandberg, who spent 30 years of his life planning the park and planting the more than 100 thousand trees there, was never honored in Costa Rica even though he died of malaria while doing that job. Which of the three I's do you think could be the correct answer? Ingratitude, indiference or ignorance? Sorry, but he was my great-grandfather.
There is a wonderful story in this. I'd love to learn more about your great-grandfather and his work. I'd like to write a biography of him and a history of the Parque La Sabana! Where are you? How could you get details and information to me? Photos? I'd want to interview people who remembered something from that time, if possible! This is truly exciting! Please contact me via my email address. I have been collecting stories of the little-known, but fascinating history of Costa Rica for years. There are places never visited by tourists and yet so wonderful to see. There is an old man who makes giant stone scuptures and they're wonderful. No training, no education - just decided one day to try to make one of the mysterious stone spheres totally by hand without using any modern technology just to prove that it could have been done. Then he went on to make other wonderful works. His small farm is littered with giant stone statues and practically no one knows about these wonders. The spheres themselves are a mystery very few tourists know anything about. And then there is the House of the Dreamer. Wonderful stuff. I'm getting old, so hurry up and contact me!
2 comments:
Nice to see that the beauty of La Sabana Park is appreciated by a North American like you, who has probably travelled the world! It is only sad that the Sweddish botanist Alfredo Anderson Sandberg, who spent 30 years of his life planning the park and planting the more than 100 thousand trees there, was never honored in Costa Rica even though he died of malaria while doing that job. Which of the three I's do you think could be the correct answer? Ingratitude, indiference or ignorance? Sorry, but he was my great-grandfather.
There is a wonderful story in this. I'd love to learn more about your great-grandfather and his work. I'd like to write a biography of him and a history of the Parque La Sabana! Where are you? How could you get details and information to me? Photos? I'd want to interview people who remembered something from that time, if possible! This is truly exciting! Please contact me via my email address. I have been collecting stories of the little-known, but fascinating history of Costa Rica for years. There are places never visited by tourists and yet so wonderful to see. There is an old man who makes giant stone scuptures and they're wonderful. No training, no education - just decided one day to try to make one of the mysterious stone spheres totally by hand without using any modern technology just to prove that it could have been done. Then he went on to make other wonderful works. His small farm is littered with giant stone statues and practically no one knows about these wonders. The spheres themselves are a mystery very few tourists know anything about. And then there is the House of the Dreamer. Wonderful stuff. I'm getting old, so hurry up and contact me!
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