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Seton’s home in Greenwich, Connecticut, is enchantingly beautiful. In the middle of a ninety-acre park with a twelve-acre lake that swarms with wild fowl; built of solid timbers cut on the place; himself the architect and builder — it is unique.
His museum contains more than three thousand stuffed birds and beasts, and his library more than five thousand works of science. Prominent on the shelves are thirty leather-clad volumes written by camp-fire and in canoe, the records of his travels during forty years.
A walk around the Seton homestead inspires all with its wild beauty and its originality. In one corner is the zoo, and for long the creatures most numerous there were skunks — as many as a hundred recently. For what? To demonstrate the growing of fur-bearing animals for their fur.
This he has done so successfully that the French Government has conferred on him (1918) the first peace medal since the Great War began, the silver medal for his successful demonstration of fur-farming as an industry.
In May, 1902, he founded the Woodcraft Indians (incorporated as the Woodcraft League), an organization of boys and girls to learn the ways of outdoor life, as he himself has known and lived them. He called it “a man-making scheme with a blue sky background”, which embodies the thought that their out-door pursuits are not merely pastime, ..text pokračuje
