Sense of Place Interview

I had interviewed two older people who I worked with named Gary and Linda Vigar. They are a married couple from Indiana and moved down about a couple decades ago.

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Back when they were children they said that their mother stayed home and took care of them. They said that their neighborhoods were like those that you see on Leave it to Beaver, one where everybody knows everybody.

This is different from me because I was raised around having both of my working to make a living. In my neighborhood I did not know everybody who lived in it.

Their definition of sustainability is making sure that we have all the resources we need in order to survive. Their ecological perspective is different from the people of this generation. They like to be outside and not inside. Their sense of place is different because they see what they had when they were younger as part of their sense of place instead of how it is now.

When I told them about this class they thought it was interesting. They certainly did not have this kind of class back in their day. They know that this world is becoming more and more unstable and they feel that this type of class is good for this generation coming up so we can try to save the world.