Everyone thinks we're closed. And I thought, 'Oh dear, people should be enjoying this. Jameson said the strain of insurance and security costs and the constant upkeep needed to maintain the historical buildings may yet prove to be the settlement's undoing. But for now, Little Mountain Settlement is still waiting like an open-air time machine to transport visitors back to a simpler period in Wright County's history. And Jameson also sees the need for a written history of Monticello, noting that Monticello is one of the oldest cities in the area, but is one of the few that has no formal volume chronicling its beginnings and growth.
Life is at such a fast pace today.
If I were younger I could do a story every once in a while. None of these new people know the stories these old-timers know. It seems to me you appreciate an area more if you know a little about the people who live there and struggled there. And just as Marion Jameson has appreciated this area and its history, it is fitting that Monticello would take this opportunity to appreciate its chief historian in return.