Food Review for Ethics and Ecology 350

At our last class, our classmates were very kind in bringing us an assortment of things to eat for breakfast. I am very grateful to them. This blog has no reflection on the people themselves, I am simply attempting to truthfully respond to the following prompt: "Write a food review of one of the meals served at our last class meeting from the point of view of a restaurant critic who is highly conscious of ethical and ecological concerns". 

On September 18th, 2009 I had the privilege of dining with an Ethics and Ecology class at Lewis-Clark State College. They had an array of things for us to eat for breakfast. As far as I could tell, nothing was homemade, it was all store bought. The food tasted delicious. There was banana nut bread, two types of scones, a vegetable tray, oranges, bananas, and bottled water. It was all very good but as I stated before, all store bought. It seemed that it all came from Albertson's grocery store so I began to research that store. On the website, "www.betterworldshopper.org" I found that Albertsons ranks as a "C' or average score on a series of criteria. The criteria include a responsibility to: human rights, the environment, animal protection, community involvement and social justice. A ranking of a "C" on this scale means that they either have "mixed social and environmental records or insufficient data to rank them". So according to this website, as a class, we could have done things a bit more ethically and environmentally friendly. Also, it would be much more environmentally sustaining to drink out of reusable water bottles rather than disposable plastic bottles.

History of Maclean Family

A Little History of Norman Maclean: Clan, Influential Places and People

1. In what state of the union did Paul Maclean die? On what date? At what time?

     Paul Maclean died in Chicago, Illinois. It was late April or early May of 1938. 

2. How old was he at the time of his death?

Many people believe that he died when he was 32 however there is some debate as to whether he was born in 1905 or 1906, so he could also have been 33 years old.

3. According to the narrator, where in Scotland was the "original" family homestead?

According to Norman Maclean, the narrator, the original Maclean family homestead was on the Hebrides Island and specifically the Isle of Mull.

http://www.fascadail.co.uk/fascmap.gif

4. What were the "Highland Clearances"? What caused them and when did they occur?

The "Highland Clearances" were the mass eviction of thousands of men, women and children from there homes in the Scottish highlands during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These often violent "clearances" were driven by the wealthy of Scotland in an attempt to gain lower-class families' land and transform it into large-scale sheep farms in order to make money and have enough food to eat. However, this left many thousands of people in poverty and they were forced to emigrate to the lowlands of Scotland or leave the country all together. (http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/clearanc.htm)

Ruined croft houses on Fuaigh Mòr in Loch Roag. The island was cleared of its inhabitants in 1841 and is now only used for grazing sheep

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances)

5. What were the first and last names of Norman and Paul Maclean's mother and what town in       what province was she from?

The Maclean boys' mother was named Clara Davidson (Maclean). She as born on December 18th, 1866 in Parrsboro, Novia Scotia. ( http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nscumber/files/pdffiles/births.pdf)

6. What is the Montana Club in Helena? When was if founded and why? What did people do            there?

The Montana Club is the oldest private social club in the Northwest of the United States. It is a place where people go for fine dining and various privately hosted parties and   events. It was founded in 1885 to be a private club for a men's organization.   (http://www.luxanmurfitt.com/montanaclub.htm)

http://www.luxanmurfitt.com/images/MCMontage.jpg

7. What are four events that happened in the world during the summer or year in which, "A             River Runs Through It" is set?

"A River Runs Through It" was set in 1937. That same year there were major things happening in the world and specifically leading up to WWII.

• June 7th, 1937 - Japanese forces invade Bejing, China (http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/1937/)
  
• January, 23rd, 1937 - 17 Communist leaders were tried for attempting to over throw Joseph Stalin (http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/1937/)
• April 27th, 1937 - German air force bombs the Basque city of Guernica (http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/buildup-to-world-war-26.htm)
• December 11th, 1937 - Italy withdraws from the League of Nations  (http://www.bwbs.de/bwbs_biografie/Italy_withdraws_from_the _ League_of_Nations_B1448.html)

8. Using screen shots of a map and the title story as a guide, show us the parts of the Big Blackfoot River where the historical Maclean family fished and any other land marks near the river that are important to the story. 

9. Using screen shots and a map, locate the following places: The headwaters of the Missouri River; the Maclean cabin on Seeley Lake; Little Prickley Pear Canyon; Wolf Creek; the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Briefly summarize some aspect of the history of each place.

 The headwaters of the Missouri River were visited by historic explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the summer of 1805. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_River) 

http://mappery.com/map-name/Missouri-Headwaters-State-Park-Map

The Maclean cabin on Seeley Lake was a place that the historic Macleans often spent time and where they went after Paul died. 

http://johnmacleanbooks.com/montana/ 

The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation is located in southeastern Montana. 

http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language/map.htm

There was a toll road built through Little Prickly Pear Canyon in 1865. (http://mathscience.mt.gov/PricklyPear.html)

(http://fwp.mt.gov/habitat/futurefisheries/success/central.html)

Wolf Creek is one of the places that the Maclean brothers went to fly fish. It is located in central Montana.

http://www.wildmontana.org/resources/maps/1central.php

10. Who was William Campbell and what role did he play in Montana history?

As far as I can tell, William Campbell is either an author and independent film maker who now works for Homefire Productions who has done various outdoor documentaries and currently lives in Montana (http://www.homefire.com/about/about.html) or a man named William Cecil Campbell who wrote the book "From the Quarries of Last Chance Gulch". (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000QHES2I/ref=sr_1_olp_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253858015&sr=1-4).