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| tom |
| Posted: Feb 9, 2008 7:44:35 PM |  |
| we used to camp at follows and eat at the cafe we would like to know is it up and running we miss going there thank you |
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| punkin |
| Posted: Apr 8, 2008 4:30:11 AM | |
To Tom:
I am sorry to say, Follows Camp will never be 'up and running' again. With death of the previous owner, Joe Davison, in 2002, the camp was sold. To this day, it remains unoccupied. The Fort Cafe is slowly being destroyed by people for anything from the copper wiring to the artifacts. It is a very, very sad thing. I used to reside at the camp. It breaks all the past resident's heart to see what has happened. The current owner has done nothing with the place. Nature has taken back over.
I might suggest that you go to Williams Camp up the road. Wonderful folks there. You will like it there. Not as good as Follows, but nice anyway.
Punkin
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| Straightshootr |
| Posted: Sep 4, 2008 6:10:43 AM | |
Punkin is correct to my knowledge.
It is quite unfortunate, those tragically final days of one of California's most unique communities.
Terri Egan-Jones was passed a sacred trust to keep the 125 years of rich mountain history alive when Joe Davison passed away. Enter a clueless, greedy real estate agent named Brion Costa and financial temptations and Follows is sold to a concern with development interests. Problem is, zoning and the plans of development and mass profits go south. Eagan and Costa escape with smiles leaving the buyer holding the bag. All at the cost of evicting 150 devoted families and residents that loved and cherished Follows which was a homestead of countless generations of Californians going back to the gold rush.
The story of Follows Camp is epic in scope. It took 125 years to build and 25 seconds to destroy with the stroke of a pen.
It is a story about pioneers and struggle, a dream and it's history, disregarded by valueless people and a quest for money.
The residents fought a hard battle to try and keep their way of life for everyone that understood the value of historical wilderness. I am sorry you child or his children will not experience that wonderful place again... at least never the way it was.
For me, a high crime has been committed against the good people of California, and the court allowed it.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Duggan spoke of the uniqueness of the case after the settlement.
"I've never had a case like this where a whole community is ... decommissioned," Duggan said.
"You have a nice community, and it's had a good run, and it's over," he told the residents.
This sort of cavalier, insensitive and myopic, way of thinking, doomed the community. Perhaps the judge should have been told, "Okay, 20 years is long enough for you to have lived in your home, you have had a good run. Now get out!" One wonders how he would have ruled?
Sometimes the bad guys win.
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| Straightshootr |
| Posted: Sep 4, 2008 6:10:47 AM | |
Punkin is correct to my knowledge.
It is quite unfortunate, those tragically final days of one of California's most unique communities.
Terri Egan-Jones was passed a sacred trust to keep the 125 years of rich mountain history alive when Joe Davison passed away. Enter a clueless, greedy real estate agent named Brion Costa and financial temptations and Follows is sold to a concern with development interests. Problem is, zoning and the plans of development and mass profits go south. Eagan and Costa escape with smiles leaving the buyer holding the bag. All at the cost of evicting 150 devoted families and residents that loved and cherished Follows which was a homestead of countless generations of Californians going back to the gold rush.
The story of Follows Camp is epic in scope. It took 125 years to build and 25 seconds to destroy with the stroke of a pen.
It is a story about pioneers and struggle, a dream and it's history, disregarded by valueless people and a quest for money.
The residents fought a hard battle to try and keep their way of life for everyone that understood the value of historical wilderness. I am sorry you child or his children will not experience that wonderful place again... at least never the way it was.
For me, a high crime has been committed against the good people of California, and the court allowed it.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Duggan spoke of the uniqueness of the case after the settlement.
"I've never had a case like this where a whole community is ... decommissioned," Duggan said.
"You have a nice community, and it's had a good run, and it's over," he told the residents.
This sort of cavalier, insensitive and myopic, way of thinking, doomed the community. Perhaps the judge should have been told, "Okay, 20 years is long enough for you to have lived in your home, you have had a good run. Now get out!" One wonders how he would have ruled?
Sometimes the bad guys win.
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| Straightshootr |
| Posted: Sep 4, 2008 6:10:47 AM | |
Punkin is correct to my knowledge.
It is quite unfortunate, those tragically final days of one of California's most unique communities.
Terri Egan-Jones was passed a sacred trust to keep the 125 years of rich mountain history alive when Joe Davison passed away. Enter a clueless, greedy real estate agent named Brion Costa and financial temptations and Follows is sold to a concern with development interests. Problem is, zoning and the plans of development and mass profits go south. Eagan and Costa escape with smiles leaving the buyer holding the bag. All at the cost of evicting 150 devoted families and residents that loved and cherished Follows which was a homestead of countless generations of Californians going back to the gold rush.
The story of Follows Camp is epic in scope. It took 125 years to build and 25 seconds to destroy with the stroke of a pen.
It is a story about pioneers and struggle, a dream and it's history, disregarded by valueless people and a quest for money.
The residents fought a hard battle to try and keep their way of life for everyone that understood the value of historical wilderness. I am sorry you child or his children will not experience that wonderful place again... at least never the way it was.
For me, a high crime has been committed against the good people of California, and the court allowed it.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Duggan spoke of the uniqueness of the case after the settlement.
"I've never had a case like this where a whole community is ... decommissioned," Duggan said.
"You have a nice community, and it's had a good run, and it's over," he told the residents.
This sort of cavalier, insensitive and myopic, way of thinking, doomed the community. Perhaps the judge should have been told, "Okay, 20 years is long enough for you to have lived in your home, you have had a good run. Now get out!" One wonders how he would have ruled?
Sometimes the bad guys win.
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