This is a lovely, vintage booklet. The sanctuary has just reopened on September 11, 2004 after the recent bout of hurricanes in Florida. The book is circa 1929, although there is no date specified and was printed by Charles Francis Press. The soft cover book measures 6 1/8 inches by 9 ¼ inches and contains 20 pages. The cover has a colorized paste-on on the front. The cover shows signs of wear and light soiling. The name of a previous owner is written across the top of the front cover. The cover is securely attached. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this wonderful old book is good plus.

Excerpt – Personal Foreword:
The inspiration for the Sanctuary and the Tower came of that stuff of which dreams are made. The two combined a dream to carry on the work of my grandfather, who, a hundred years ago transformed a grim desert island in the North Sea, ten miles form the Netherlands mainland, into a bower of green verdure and trees to which came the birds which made the island famed.

But an inspiration is of little value if it is not carried into realization, and I was fortunate to enlist the deep interest and sympathetic cooperation of two men who are responsible for what the visitor sees: Frederick Law Olmsted for the Sanctuary and Milton B. Medary for the Tower. Naturally, I could not have obtained two men more thoroughly fitted to give me what I wanted to present to the American people for visitation, and what has been so often called “The Taj Mahal of America” – a spot which would reach out in its beauty through the plantings, through the flowers, through the birds, through the superbly beautiful architecture of the Towers, through the music of the bells, to the people and fill their souls with the quiet, the repose, the influence of the beautiful. As they could see and enjoy it in the Sanctuary and through the Tower.

And incidentally it gave me a wonderful opportunity to follow out and carry out the injunction of my grandmother to her children and grandchildren: “Wherever your lives may be cast, make you the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have lived in it.”

That is the basis upon which the Sanctuary and the Tower rests.

Edward W. Bok
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