What's It For?
My gorgeous wife and I were lucky enough to tour the Hearst Mansion at San Simeon on Thursday.
What an amazing place!
It was full of amazing pieces and was a phenomenal construction for its time and location.
One of the key things that drove Hearst to build is was his reason why. He was building it in homage to his mum (or mom as they say here.)
His Mum, Pheobe Apperson Hearst did some fabulous things including:
- Establishing National Parent Teacher Association,
- Major benefactor to Uni of California and it's first female regent,
- Co-founder public elementary school for girls in Washington,
- Founded the Hearst library,
- Founded Lowie Museum of Anthropology, and
- Inspired in her son an appreciation of and desire to collect great artworks
Not only that but she bankrolled a lot of Hearst's activities after his Father died. The story goes that she had Hearst come to her where she said that he owed her $10 million. She didn't want the money back but she would like something given to the community in her name. So he built this mansion (he was also sick of staying in a tent) to house his artworks and then gave it to California National Parks in his mothers name.
What about you Dear-Reader? Why do you do what you do?
What's the reason and is it big enough to keep you going when all around are against you?
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