to the study of liberal arts and sciences and emphasizing ecology. 
Unity Maine was nothing much at all the first time I saw it. Once a small but prosperous farm community, its brightest and best, I suspect, had lit out for the city during the Depression or in the 1940s after the war. In the late 1960s, sombody started a private college there, devoted to the study of liberal arts and sciences and emphasizing ecology.
Ecology was a young science then and this college seemed to be in the right place )on the banks of Unity Pond, aka Lake Winnecook, which was in need of a bit of study and reform. Unity College has thrived and brought a new look and a new vigor to the tiny town. Now there's a lot going on in Unity. I guess you always could go hunting there.
So here on Main Street is a restored Federalist era house with a garden that shows Japanese influences in the choice of a copper heron, in the careful placement of horizontal and vertical rocks around the little water garden. I admire Japanese gardens and found this one inspiring. It clearly took a lot of work.
After exploring the main attractions, I walked along the picket fence that divides their yard from the next. I noted several kinds of shrubs and as I went along by the fence met up with an aroma of ... compost, had to be. I walked a bit farther and sure enough, there was a homemade four-bin composter. Nice one!
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