KARMA

Refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect where intent and actions of an individual (cause) influence the future of that individual (effect).^] Good intent and good deed contribute to good karma and future happiness, while bad intent and bad deed contribute to bad karma and future suffering. Karma is closely associated with the idea of rebirth in some schools of Asian religions. In these schools, karma in the present affects one's future in the current life, as well as the nature and quality of future lives - or, one's saṃsāra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma

The force created by a person's actions that is believed in Hinduism and Buddhism to determine what that person's next life will be like

 The force created by a person's actions that some people believe causes good or bad things to happen to that person

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/karma

If walls could talk

The Muscongus brotherhood church, Louds Island, Maine (picture taken from Yahoo pictures)
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVy5dP_lV4wsAJvZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Muscongus+Island+Brotherhood+Church&fr=yfp-t-337#id=2&iurl=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_AyjtBgO0ZDg%2FSng-dkntnzI%2FAAAAAAAAAXw%2FBox2vA7fIhg%2Fs200%2F087.JPG&action=click

For some reason I expected it to be red.
I thought that if I will look close enough, in the corners, where the lumber was joined, I will be able to notice a touch of red from the original structure. I was wondering if  in the dead of night, when the quiet lies heavy and uninterrupted the whispers of children voices can be heard. 

But after searching long and hard, almost giving up, I found it on Louds island. A grey building, that does not disclose its age of over hundred years. Nothing in the name reveals the drama. The brotherhood church built in the Gothic revival style now used rather infrequently on an island that its official population is -zero. 

The story is in the details

http://www.seacoastmission.org/SCMPDF/Centennial_Timeline.pdf

1912 Schoolhouse on Malaga Island (which had been recently “depopulated” by

the State of Maine) is disassembled and moved to Muscongus Island, where a

church is built of the Malaga lumber and hardware under the direct

supervision of Alexander P. MacDonald

1912 Start of the Mission’s first full year on the water

1913 Dedication of the Muscongus Island Brotherhood Church

Where is the 'real' story

 

 http://focus.nps.gov/nrhp/AssetDetail?assetID=c6cb4f09-a16d-432f-8e6e-a93dccf97076

http://www.seacoastmission.org/SCMPDF/Centennial_Timeline.pdf
 



 

Title:		Loudville Church
National Register Information System ID:		95001457
Applicable Criteria:		ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING
Architectural Styles:		LATE GOTHIC REVIVAL
Architects:		Stratton, Milton Elliott, George
Areas Of Significance:		ARCHITECTURE
Periods Of Significance:		1900-1924
Significant Years:		1913
Resource Type:		BUILDING
Keywords:		Stratton,Milton;Elliott,George;1913
Note:		Center of Louds Island
Related Collections:		National Register of Historic Places Collection
Resource Format:		pdf
File Size (bytes):		22151
Date Published:		12/14/1995
Parks:		National Register of Historic Places
Locations:		State: Maine County: Lincoln County Loudville ; Center of Louds Island MAINE ; Lincoln ; Loudville
Asset ID:		c6cb4f09-a16d-432f-8e6e-a93dccf97076

 l stops.stops.

Even the smallest piece of land is still home

The narrative that makes a story

Man made lake

"I’ll never forget the day, They took my home away, To make a lake that God did not plan. Though it has been many years, I still recall the tears, Shed when they made Flagstaff Dam."

Jeep Wilcox

http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/songstorysamplercollection/47/

Eminent Domain
The power to take private property for public use by a state, municipality, or private person or corporation authorized to exercise functions of public character, following the payment of just compensation to the owner of that property.
Federal, state, and local governments may take private property through their power of eminent domain or may regulate it by exercising their Police Power. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires the government to provide just compensation to the owner of the private property to be taken. A variety of property rights are subject to eminent domain, such as air, water, and land rights. The government takes private property through condemnation proceedings. Throughout these proceedings, the property owner has the right of due process.
Eminent domain is a challenging area for the courts, which have struggled with the question of whether the regulation of property, rather than its acquisition, is a taking requiring just compensation. In addition, private property owners have begun to initiate actions against the government in a kind of proceeding called inverse condemnation.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/eminent+domain


 This story, can't remember when I heard it for the first time, always intrigued me with a mixture of horror and astonishment. The images of whole towns under water made me shiver. I kept looking for more information, description, people describing the process, but all I got was the same words over and over again. 

The accepted script, how the decision was made, how the process of eviction was carried, how the land was acquired and  then used. But the people, I kept asking myself, the people what about them? how did they feel, what did they do to stop the water?

Did the scream, did they protest, did they dispair?

What got me was realizing that it was not quick and painless, it was a prolonged process that took almost twenty years. Legal actions and then the preparations that constituted of making the area ready.