We spent the afternoon at the Henry and Clara Ford Estate. It’s completely worth the time. The estate is vast, but not as vast as the typical robber baron estate. The engineering is marvelous, as one might expect — drainage experts still visit to see how the early 20c sprinkler system works. But most intriguing is the constant rhetoric about Ford’s environmentalism that’s woven through a space that demonstrates a heroic effort at beating the land into submission and turning nature into a “natural,” tame place.