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Friendship Garden |
 There is much in Harris's writing to illustrate his love of nature
and his love of his fellow man. He was a founding member of the
Prairie Club of Chicago, and always believed that neighborliness
would do more for peace than any contracts or treaties.
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PAUL'S NEIGHBORLINESS
"There
is a path from “Comely
Bank” to the home of Silvester, the first man to whom
was breathed the first word of Rotary. It is a well worn path winding
through the oak wood made fragrant in the spring by countless blossoms, and
radiant in the autumn by blazing sumac.
This
particular path has been showing the imprint of Schiele and Harris boots and
shoes more than twenty years now." Paul Harris
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FRIENDSHIP GARDEN |
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 "They
would like to think well of us; in fact, nothing could give them greater
happiness than to believe sincerely that the "Colossus of the North" is
really a friendly, kindly Colossus who would not intrude upon their rights
as members of the family of nations, who would consider South American
countries by reason of their position it the western hemisphere entitled to
the friendly appellation which our present Roosevelt has given them, "Our
neighbors on the South".I like the term neighbor
and always did. I like it so well that I have for years had a wood sign
permanently attached to my house near the front door overlooking our
friendship garden.
The bears the legend, "Neighborliness makes for
Happiness" and so it does. Neighborly people are happy people, while those
who keep shut within their own walls are likely to be the very
opposite.
The world has been hearing quite enough of
international pacts, treaties and agreements. The have more
frequently led to war than war than from it." Paul P. Harris
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FRIENDSHIP GARDEN |
PAUL AND JEAN IN THE GARDEN |
HISTORICAL MARKER |
JEAN HARRIS IN THEIR FRIENDSHIP GARDEN |
PAUL POINTING TO THE JAPANESE LANTERN |
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