Status Updates From Castaway Mountain: Love and...

“Dead Horse Bay (NYC, USA) had absorbed much of [New York City’s] trash in the thirties. Half buried in sand were switchboards, cups, dishes, and other things made of Bakelite. An early plastic, it was easily moldable, didn't break, & didn't conduct electricity or heat. Unbroken but soon unfashionable, these had been discarded and found their way to the beach.”

🥺 I love Bakelite & did not know this

“He had seen friends silently replaced by their young children at the mountains while they retreated to waste away… consumed by tuberculosis. Others had faded into the haze, their disappearance unnoticed in the unrelenting chase for the city’s moth-eaten treasures.

But Hyder Ali & his friends didn’t think their treasure-yielding township & the livelihood it had provided for them had anything to do w it.”

“They pushed for the trash township to change, to mirror the modern city whose desires fed [the dump] and whose dark reflection it was.”