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WDCS142
'Houseboat Vacation' - 1952 Synopsis:
Donald wants a quiet vacation along with his
nephews so he rents a houseboat on Lake Erie for
the purpose.
Comments:
Several of Barks' stories, especially from
the 1950s, may be taken as his eye-openers to the
readers on how we treated the environment back
then. In this story Donald and the nephews are
having a quiet vacation on a houseboat on Lake
Erie. At one point the nephews decide to have a
swim but they are immediately deterred, when they
find themselves covered in mud.
No doubt, Barks chose the spot for his story
carefully; Lake Erie had severe problems with
chemical waste from industries, raw sewage, and
garbage, and just a few years later it was living
under a death sentence as both scientists and the
public believed that the pollution had sealed its
fate.
20 years later the problems had still not been
solved, which then caused Barks to yet another
story about the lake; in HDL17 Be Leery
of Lake Eerie he came with a much
harsher and more direct attack on the location.
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