John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1992
John Muir Newsle spring, 1992 university of the pacific volume 2, number 2 ON EARLY YOSEMITE ARTISTS AND TOURISM Katherine M. Littell of Harvard University has published a short essay about early Yosemite artists entitled, "Chris Jorgensen and the Pioneer Artists of Yosemite." It appeared...
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| Summary: | John Muir Newsle spring, 1992 university of the pacific volume 2, number 2 ON EARLY YOSEMITE ARTISTS AND TOURISM Katherine M. Littell of Harvard University has published a short essay about early Yosemite artists entitled, "Chris Jorgensen and the Pioneer Artists of Yosemite." It appeared in the fall, 1990 issue of the Harvard Graduate Society Newsletter. Littell reports that nineteenth century artists were very much responsible for the political viability of Yosemite. The new Yosemite Grant needed tourism to be finacially stable. California had accepted administration of Yosemite in 1866 but was not given any funds by the federal government to handle its responsibilty. To pay for the costs of supervising Yosemite, Littell concludes that "Increasingly, the Commissioners looked to artists and photographers to popularize the unique loveliness of the Grant. ." Accordingly, Frederick Lee Olmstead, Chair of the Yosemite Commission, asked Virgil Williams (later Director of California School of Design), artist Thomas Hill and photographer C.E. Watkins, for advice on how to make Yosemite a stronger tourist attraction. Of interest here is the fact that even those who had taken on the responsibility of protecting Yosemite were, even at the outset, interested in altering it. "Are there any conditions affecting the scenery of the Yosemite unfavorably," Olmstead asked the three artists, "which it would prove in the power of the State to remove?" This is, of course, precisely the notion of "improving the Valley" that John Muir argued against in his first writings for the San Francisco Bulletin. Muir argued often and publicly that any effort to "improve" the Valley was silly, and pointedly made fun of the little dam built by hotelier Snow to divert a side stream of the Merced so it would flow over the main Nevada falls. Littell's article is useful in providing a context in which early Yosemite artists worked. Their paintings were distributed nationwide. Thousands saw them, and as cross-country travel became easier with the completion of the Union Pacific in 1869, other thousands came to visit California, including Yosemite. Evidently, Muir himself was inspired to visit Yosemite when he saw a painting of the Valley while recovering from his eye accident. Beginning with Ay res and Hill, James Alden, William Smith Jewett, Albert Bierstadt, and finally Chris Jorgensen, the author finds that each "was forced to differentiate their styles to capture its compelling beauty." Unlike the Hudson River School group that preceded them, Littell writes, the Yosemite artists "either enthusiastically or reluctantly, took on a political dimension," since each was responsible in one way or another for popularizing Yosemite. Not all Californians wanted more tourists in their state: Ambrose Bierce rejoiced with "grim satisfaction" in the "destruction by fire of Bierstadt's celebrated picture of Yosemite Valley," which had, he stated, "incited more unpleasant people to visit California than all our conspiring hotelkeepers could compel to return." Perhaps the most compelling theme of Professor Littell's article is the new window for research which she implicitly opens: What was the full political and environ- • mental impact of tourism on Yosemite and other wildernesses? It has often seemed that Muir was in one respect a tragic figure. Promoting tourism, he several times wrote it was,one of the "great, good signs of the times"; yet, it was and remains an element responsibile for the very destruction of wilderness. Muir spoke of this dilemma on several occasions, always opting to defend wilderness visitation. When Half Dome became finally accessible to hikers, Muir dismissed notions that any harm might come from the new visitors, writing that he had "always discouraged as much as possible every project for laddering the South Dome, believing it would be a fine thing to keep this garden untrodden. Now the pines will be carved with the initials of Smith and Jones, and the gardens strewn with tin cans and bottles, but the winter gales will blow most of this rubbish away, and avalanches may strip off the ladders." (San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov., 18, 1875.) His later articles from Alaska quite clearly call for Americans to come visit their northren acquisition: "Go, go and see," he directed. And, of course, the initial purpose of the Sierra Club was to make the mountains more accessible. Professor Littell's suggestive essay raises the question as to whether Muir or the other artists may have come to harbor self-doubts about the wisdom of the policy. WESTERN LITERATURE FEATURE AT WYOMING CENTER The University of Wyoming American Heritage Center willhold a conference on "100 Years of Western Literature" on September 24-26 in Laramie. The conference will feature western historian Richard W. Etulain of the University of New Mexico, western literary critic Jane Tompkins from Duke University, Emmy award-winning producer Ric Burns, and many other acknowledged experts on western literature. >HN MUIR ON ALASKA GOLD (Editor's note: On June 22, 1899, Muir and other fortyseven members ofE.H. Harriman's Alaska expedition gathered at a Seattle wharf, preparing to start the trip aboard Harriman 's steamer George W. Elder. A reporter caught up with Muir and conducted a ship-side interview just before boarding. Tlie following excerpt is from an unidentified newspaper clipping found in the Muir Family album at the Holt-Atherton Library. It reinforces two themes not usually identified with Muir but found in his earlier Alaska publications: tourism and development]. While Professor Muir will take much pleasure in educating his brother scientists relative to glaciers, the chief object of his joining the party was to have an opportunity to study certain portions of the Pacific Alaskan coast he had not previously the chance of exploring. "I am going along," he said. "to study a piece of the Alaskan coast I have never visited on any of my many trips to that country. I have seen the Arctic , studied rocks and glaciers to my heart's content, and now I want to take a look at Yakutat, Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet and Kadiak [sic]. "Ah, Alaska is a great country. I said that twenty years ago, and knew then that it was rich in gold. Think of the wealth of the great Yukon basin. It got there from the Rockies, being simply a continuation of the chain from Mexico on up. Unlike California, we get gold on the Yukon from glacial action, but it's the same stream of gold. On the Yukon it's sealed up; that I learned when I was up in Alaska in '81, hunting for De Long. I was in the Golovin Bay placer camp even at that early date, and knew than that the gold was there." The year 1992 is a centennial year in western American literature. 1892 saw Owen Wister publish his first western story, "Hank's Woman," and also marked the birth of Frederick Faust, better known as Max Brand. Wister went on to write The Virginian, still considered by many to be the definitive western novel, while Brand produced over 400 stories and 200 novels with western themes. Through panel discussions, presentations, and films, the conference wil trace the beginnings, development, and current status of western writing. For more information, contact the American Heritage Center at PO Box 3924, Laramie, WY, or phone 307-766-4114. ONLY A FEW BACK ISSUES LEFT Early issues of the John Muir Newsletter will soon be out of print. Volume 1, number 1 (Winter, 1991) is already gone; a few issues remain of vol. 1 nos. 2-4 and vol. 2 no. 1. The price is $4.00 each, including tax and postage. Send orders to The John Muir Newsletter, History Department, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211. JOHN MUIR NEWSLETTER. VOL. II, #2 (NEW SERIES) SPRING, 1992 Published quarterly by the John Muir Center for Regional Studies, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211 Editor Center Director Staff Q Sally M. Miller R.H. Limbaugh This Newsletter is printed on recycled paper. PLAUDITS FOR THE CALIFORNIA HISTORY INSTITUTE, APRIL, 1992 The 45th annual California History Institute was held on April 23-25, 1992 on the topic "California Immigrants: People, Plants and Animals." The conference took an unusually broad approach to immigration, transcending the usual focus on immigration patterns confined to the human species. In more than a half-dozen sessions with over forty speakers from various disciplines and backgrounds, the Institute explored the changing environment of California over the last century and a half. "The Heritage of Columbus" was discussed through two presentations on the Italian immigrant experience in California by Jerry McKevitt of the University of Santa Clara and Rose Scherini of Berkeley. The Asian immigrant experience was covered by Rita Takahashi of San Francisco State University and Robert Morrow and Kenneth Day of the University of the Pacific considering the Japanese and the Southeast Asians. The topic of Young immigrants to California was featured in a luncheon talk by Paula Gillett of San Jose State University. The impact of introduced plants on California's native plant populations was considered by Steve Klukkert of Berkeley and Steve Stockton of San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton. The effect of the incoming population on Native Americans of California was discussed by David Risling of U.C. Davis and Charles Roberts of Sacramento State University. The Gaelic experience in California was considered by Earl Schmidt of Murphys and Mary-Ellen Jones of Orinda. David Beesley of Sierra College and Sean O'Grady of the University of California at Davis read papers on Sierra environmental conservation and California horticulture. The subject of research on the Hispanics in the Central Valley was discussed by Ricardo Grijalva and Alberto Ortiz, both of Stockton, Samuel Ragalado of Stanislaus State University, and Ramon Chacon of the University of Santa Clara. The African- American experience in Stockton was the subject of a panel consisting of Tony Fitch, Delta College; Donald Grubbs, Cris Clay and Kristine Leach, University of the Pacific; Ben Redding and Sylvian Sun-Minnick of Stockton. The immigrant plants in California was the subject of a luncheon talk by Elizabeth McClintock of San Francisco. The dinner address was presented by Michael Smith of the University of California at Davis, and dealt with science and society in California in the era just before World War I. A breakfast meeting of the Jedediah S. Smith Society was held to coincide with the conference, Earl Schmidt speaking on Smith's Sierra crossing. Following the formal sessions in Stockton, a field trip was held for conference participants. The trip took in the sites of immigrant communities in the Valley and the Mother Lode and sites of habitat changes and renewal. It was a packed few days for the participants. For those who could not attend the Institute, tapes of the presentations may be purchased from the John Muir Center for Regional Studies. Plans will soon be going forward to develop a program for the next California History Institute to be held on April 22-24, 1993. Details will be announced as soon as possible, but please mark your calendars so that you can attend the next conference. TAPES OF "PEOPLE, PLANTS AND ANIMALS" Selected cassette tapes from the 1992 California History Institute will soon be available. A few sessions were unfortunately not taped due to technical difficulties. Watch for a special announcement in the next issue of this Newsletter. JOHN MUIR CONFERENCE TAPES STILL AVAILABLE During the 1985 John Muir Conference at the University of the Pacific, eight double-sided audio cassette tapes recorded fifteen presentations on all aspects of Muir's life and legacy. Those tapes are still available for $5.00 each. To order, indicate which of the following tapes you wish to purchase and send your list with a check for the full amount to the John Muir Center for Regional Studies, History Dept., UOP, Stockton, 95211. Tape 1: Side A: William & Maymie Kimes: "Scotland Remembers John Muir" and Millie Stanley: "John Muir in Wisconsin." Side B: Peter E. Palmquist: "Wilderness Has Many Voices." Tape 2: Side A: Bart O'Brien: "The Muir-Whitney Controversy." Side B: Paul Sheats: "Muir's Gospel of Glaciers." Tape 3: Side A: Richard F. Fleck: "Muir's Homage to Thoreau." Side B: Ron Limbaugh: "The Nature of Muir's Religion." Tape 4: Side A: Kathleen Wadden: "John Muir and the Community of Nature." Side B: Lisa Mighetto: "John Muir and the Rights of Animals." Tape 5:-Side A: Edmund A. Schofield: "Muir and the New England Connection." Side B: Richard J. Orsi: "Muir and the Souther Pacific Railroad." Tape 6: Side A: Frank E. Buske: "John Muir's Alaska Exerience." Side B: P.J. Ryan: "Muir in the South Pacific." Tape 7: Side A: Michael Cohen: "Between the Generations: John Muir and the Sierra Club as Cult." Side B: "Frederick Turner: "Toward Future Muir Biographies: Problems and Prospects." Tape 8: Side A: Linda Moon Stumpff: "All in a Quote." All proceeds from these tapes will go to support the programs of the John Muir Center for Regional Studies. One important goal: to raise money so that the video-tapes of the 1990 John Muir Conference can be edited and made available for distribution. INQUIRIES: JOHN MUIR AND WILLIAM BARTRAM Keith E. Kennedy of Quinton, Virginia, is working on an article about William Bartram, "the first, great American-bora naturalist and author of Travels," and wants to know if there is any connection between Bartram and John Muir. Specifically, he asks if "Muir was familiar with Bartram's Travels," if there were "any letters between Muir and anyone else that discuss Bartram's contributions or merits," if "any published articles" exist that compare or discuss Muir and Bartram, and if "any of Muir's recent biographers have discussed Bartram in their books." Muir was indeed familiar with Bartram and his Travels, but to what extent is not clear. Frederick Turner found the only hard evidence in reading Muir's journal carried during his East Coast trip of 1898. (AMSS journal, "Botany Trip with Sargent and Canby," Jul-Nov 1897[8], John Muir Papers, Microfilm Edition, Reel 28, 03506). In Rediscovering America, Turner noted that "In 1897, Muir's friend, Charles Sargent, gave him a copy of Bartram's Travels, which he eagerly read and pronounced 'v. interesting.'.[p. 141]." Actually the date was 1898, but Turner was probably confused by the dating error made by the editors on the microfilm control card which failed to note that the journal records two separate trips, one in 1897 and the other a year later. The editors, in turn, were confused by Muir's own holograph date of 1897 on the journal index. Apparently he went back over the journal some some years later and simply forgot the year he made the eastern trip. Careful scrutiny of Muir's handwritten journal entries indicates that he did not have much time to read the Bartram work. In the fall of 1898, Muir and Charles S. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard, traveled together through much of the American Southeast on an enlightening but exhausting three-month botanizing expedition. With them was William M. Canby, whom Linnie Marsh Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness describes as a "botanist of Wilmington, New Jersey." (p. 274) Actually he was a banker, railroad official, and amateur naturalist from Wilmington, Delaware—across the river from Jersey. The trip ended in Virginia with Sargent ill and exhausted from lack of sleep. Returning to Boston by way of Canby's Delaware home, Muir and Sargent arrived at Sargent's home in Brookline October 13. Turner wrote that Muir read Bartram during the train ride back from Tennessee (p. 314), but that doesn't square with Muir's journal entries. On the afternoon of October 14 a recuperated Sargent took Muir to visit the Arboretum library. There, Muir wrote, "I spent a few hrs turning over Micheaux's [sic] Silva—a fine work, good illustrations, written by the son." Although Muir read some French, he probably was using the American edition of Francois Andre Michaux (1770-1855), The North American Sylvia; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux. Philadelphia, 1856. His note continues: " Wonderful travels, hope to see them[?] & the journal of the elder. Sargent gave me Bartram's Travels, a few yrs earlier than Michaeaux, v. interesting." This holograph entry implies Muir received the copy of Bartram while at the library, not earlier. Apparently he began reading it at that time, for on the following day, his journal records that he occupied his time "Reading Bartram," planning an excursion through the Canadian woods and the White Mountains of Vermont, taking a walk, dining with an old friend, and touring a local park. On the 16th he left by train for the North. No additional journal entries have been located that mention Bartram. We can only infer from the brief notes Muir left behind that his study of Bartram was cursory at best, occupying probably no more than a few hours sandwiched in between two busy tours that took all his time and energy. He couldn't have read Bartram'on the northern tour; he had never seen the Northern woods and spent all his time glued to the train window; his journal entries are filled with descriptions of fall colors and scenic wonders. On October 23 he returned to Boston, spent the next two weeks visiting and touring in Boston and New York City, then headed back south for a tour of Canby's Delaware and a final excursion through Florida and Louisiana en route to Martinez. No mention of the Bartram volume has been found in Muir's correspondence. The book is not included in the Muir personal library collections either at the University of the Pacific or at Huntington Library, and there is no indication he ever reached Martinez with it. We are inclined to think that Sargent loaned him a copy from the Arboretum library, which he left behind when he headed north on October 16, 1898. We would welcome other views and speculations on this matter. CAN YOU WRITE IN MUIRS STYLE? HERE'S A CHANCE TO TEST YOUR SKILL The John Muir Center for Regional Studies at the University of the Pacific is proud to announce the 1992 John Muir Glorious Writing Contest It's an event we hope will become an annual tradition. Hemingway fans have a writing contest; Steinbeck fans have a writing contest. It's time for John Muir fans to join in the fun. This is not a parody, but rather a celebration of the John Muir style of nature writing. The idea is to write a page of descriptive prose as if John Muir himself were writing. The content and topic are open to the writer's creative imagination, so, long as the passage bears an appropriate relationship to themes identified with John Muir and his legacy. Each contestant submitting an entry will receive a sample copy of the John Muir Newsletter and a letter of acknowledgment. The top three entries in each category may be published in the John Muir Newsletter, and each winner will receive a certificate of merit and a one-year subscription to the Newsletter. Two categories of competition: - Young Sequoias: for student contestants (age 17 or under). - Old Yosemites: for adult contestants (age 18 or older). Rules for contestants: - Only one entry per person will be accepted . - All essays are limited to a maximum ,of 300 words. The number of words must be indicated on the contest form. - All essays must be typewritten or computer- printed on an official entry form. To obtain one, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope along with your name, age and mailing address to the John Muir Center for Regional Studies, History Department, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211. - A panel of judges from the English Department of the University of the Pacific will select the top three entries in each category. Winners will be personally notified in writing, and their essays may be published in a future issue of the John Muir Newsletter. - All entries become the physical property of the John Muir Center and cannot be returned. The Center has first right of refusal for publishing one or more of the entries in the John Muir Newsletter. - The contest is open to anyone except staff of the John Muir Center for Regional Studies and the UOP English Department, which will judge the entries. - All entries for the 1992 contest must be postmarked on or before December 31, 1992. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT EMPHASIZED IN TWO UOP SUMMER COURSES "California: Coast to Crest" is a field-oriented course covering the history and geology of Central California. Sponsored in part by the John Muir Center for Regional Studies, the course consists of two 2-unit parts, each without prerequisites, each lasting two weeks. Students may enroll in or or both parts. Both combine classroom learning and field trips. Course instructors are old hands at combined classroom-field learning: J. Curtis Kramer of the UOP Geology Department, and Ron Limbaugh of the UOP History Department. Curt also will teach the second summer course, a six-day geological adventure in the high Sierra, with lodging at the historic Feather River Inn. For information on either or both courses, contact Jan Ketchum, UOP Office of Summer Sessions, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton CA 95211, or phone her at (209) 946-2424. ENVIRONMENTAL PERIODICAL A HANDY REFERENCE TOOL Recently we have begun an exchange with The Compendium Newsletter, a bi-monthly publication by a non-profit organization in Los Angeles. Editor Nancy Pearlman has packed this modest 20-page digest with eco-oriented cartoons, short features, reviews, current action updates, and an events calendar with free listings. The content is global in scope and pro-active as well as descriptive. For subscription information contact the editor at Educational Communications, P.O. Box 351419, Los Angeles, CA 90035-911. PH (310) 559- 9160. NEW MUIR JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY USES PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PHOTOS A recent children's book by Ginger Wadsworth has just come on the market. John Muir: Wilderness Protector, available from Lerner Publications of Minneapolis, is designed for juveniles from the fifth grade and up. A biography, it is filled with previously-unpublished photos from the Muir collection at the University of the Pacific. Daryl Morrison and her staff at the Holt-Atherton Library, U.O.P., aided the author in her search for Muir material. REVIEWS (Editor's note: We will henceforth review books and other materials of interest to readers of this Newsletter, including older books of significance as well as newly published books, articles atui videos. If you are interested in reviewing for us, please contact the editor.) Baptized into Wilderness: A Christian Perspective on John Muir, by Richard Cartwright Austin. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1987. 103 pp. notes, index. ISBN 0-8042- - 0869-7. Reviewed by Dennis Williams, Texas Tech University Since Lynn White, Jr. published his seminal paper on the roots of the environmental crisis in 1967, Christianity has taken a number of blows meted out by academics and environmentalists who blame Christian theology and philosophy for ecological disaster. As the patron saint of the environmental preservation movement, John Muir has undergone radical reinterpretation since Frederick Bade assumed Muir's orthodoxy. Some recent students of Muir, accepting Lynn White's thesis, have removed Muir from the context of Christianity and have placed him within religions of the Far East, which are perceived to be more environmentally responsible—a perception not wholly supported by the facts. More recently Ronald Limbaugh and others have suggested that interpreting John Muir as a Taoist, Buddhist, or adherent of some other Far Eastern philosophy enhances the myth-making about John Muir for modern activists, but does not accurately contribute to our understanding of his life and work. In Baptized into Wilderness Richard Austin attempts to establish a dialogue with Muir that would suggest ways in which Christians could become more ecologically responsible. Austin depicts Muir as a prophet in the stripe of Isaiah or John the Baptist. Muir's divinely ordained duty was to call late nineteenth-century American society into a correct relationship with God and the environment. Austin suggests that Muir's message—"that God wants humans to care for nature and not destroy the systems of life" (86)—is just as applicable today as it was a century ago, perhaps more so. Throughout the book, Austin attempts to make John Muir's environmental ethics germane to modern Christians. That is perhaps the most significant weakness of the work. By emphasizing Muir's relevance to the modern world, Austin fails to concentrate enough on how .Muir's philosophy fits into the historical context of the late nineteenth century. John Muir is easily made to be relevant. His writings, like Christian sculpture, can be made to prove almost anything. More important than relevance is whether or not the individual portrayed by Austin or any other biographer is the real John Muir or a mythical imposter~a caricature made to speak lines removed from the context of his time and constructed to fit the author's notion of environmental ethics. A survey of writings about Muir would testify that such ahistorical methods have often been used on John Muir. Even so, Austin's portrayal of Muir is fairly accurate, and the dialogue he establishes with Muir is within the tradition from which Muir's ethics emerged. However, since Austin emphasizes modern relevance so much, a reader unfamiliar with Muir's life would need to read Linnie Marsh Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness or Frederick Turner's Rediscovering America to fill in the detail of Muir's life and provide the internal context necessary to understand Muir the man. All in all, Austin's exploration of Muir's contribution to environmental theology is an important contribution to Muir scholarship and should not be overlooked. POETRY CORNER [Ed. Note: The Newsletter will consider for publication any short poems which reflect on subjects of interest to the John Muir Center and its members. Publication is at the discretion of the editor.] SOLILOQUY TO CEDAR GROVE by Lee Lowell Our campfire burning warm and bright, True companion in the night; It draws our fellow campers round, With tales of where the fish abound. Kings River with its deep green pools, To tantalize us fishing fools, Who leave each mora with fervent wish, Return each eve without a fish. A week's gone by, one fish we've seen, Old German Brown, orange-speckled green, Tempted for years, his hungry eye, Finally succumbed to a Black Gnat fly. Camper relates colorfully, Treks through the wilderness in glee, To hook Rainbow or Golden Trout, That mightn't heed his lures about. But we're content to take our cue, From towering granite walls we view, To rest by Roaring River Falls, . . . Or hike when Bubbs Creek trail calls. For trout are wary,; shy away, From spinners, salmon eggs, Haeckle Grey, And Nature's promise: Joy complete, Will crown the years we campers meet To reminisce on all the fun, Of fishing for a prize not won, And talk of going back . a yen, 'To tread those John Muir Trails again. CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK SYMPOSIUM RECENTLY HELD A symposium marking the ninetieth anniversary of Crater Park National Park was recently held. The event., billed as "Crater Lake National Park: Still Beautiful at 90," was held at Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, Oregon, on May 15-17, 1992. The three day event featured a variety of speakers, including Michael Finley, Superintendent of Yosemite National Park, Andy Kerr, Conservation Director of Oregon's National Resources Council, and Russell Sadler, political commentator. Speakers discussed aspects of Crater Lake National Park such as its history, forest ecology, geology, geograpghy, limnology and anthropology. THANKS TO OUR READERS ONCE AGAIN The Newsletter staff is very grateful for the Muir materials and environmentally related items which our readers have submitted. Without your efforts, we would have difficulty producing this Newsletter. Remember this is YOUR newsletter too, and we need everyone to contribute to insuring that this a publication which honors the work of John Muir. So, please continue to send relevant information our way. All submissions will be considered for publication. Final decisions on suitability for publication are the responsibility of the editor. BE A MEMBER OF THE JOHN MUIR CENTER FOR REGIONAL STUDIES Costs are a problem everywhere, especially in academia today. We can only continue publishing and distributing this modest newsletter through support from our readers. 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