Traveling from Manhattan via Fly the Whale’s gleaming fleet of seaplanes is the most stylish way to arrive, staff standing by with trays of Champagne. Situated on 1,000 private acres encircling a 500-acre lake, Lake Kora is an architectural jewel set in a national treasure. Foresight and fiscal stamina have preserved details that sing with an authenticity Abercrombie could only dream of. I marvel at the log-and-stone campus that meticulously retains the original Vanderbilt era aura. Lake Kora exemplifies how richly landscape and history intertwine, how deeply a sense of place can fire the imagination.