• factories as a tourist attraction
• tourist attraction as an expression of ideas in American society
• how is this a uniquely American society
  
• how tourist attractions change over time
• keep things original or make them better
• nature vs. technology or we can live in nature and merge the two (machine in the garden)
• today the two are separate markets
  
• how closely tied tourism is to capitalism
• what we think is natural is often carefully constructed
• do we see old enough history as nature?
• the line between culture/civilization and nature is problematic and often hides political messages
• tourism=escape from stress=has to look old
• desire for originality, but what does originality mean
• what is the narrative that this tourist attraction is aligned with
  

Perky wanted to synthesize nature and technology--he called his factory a palace of light
Olmsted brothers laid out the grounds



"not once touched by human hands" (p. 196)
Pure Food and Drug Act 1906
a utopian scheme that was successful

Annie Taylor went over the falls in a barrel--do you buy Irwin's argument that that was part of declining excitement because she was a frumpy schoolteacher?

• a more hostile view of industry
• resulted in a short-lived federal law limiting the amount of water that could be diverted
• one plan called for turning the falls off at night so all the water could be used to generate power

but Niagara no longer had the most or the cheapest electric power