Author: Alice M. Walker

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781332204762

Excerpt from Through Turkey Pass to Amherst and Beyond "Thou lovely vale of sweetest stream that flows: Winding and willow fringed Connecticut: Swift to thy fairest scenes my fancy flies." "Back to thy peaceful villages and fields My memory, like a weary pilgrim, comes With scrip and burdon to repose awhile." Thus sang J. G. Holland of his native valley. To his youthful poetic vision the Holyoke mountains, as seen from old Northampton, were a mystery and an inspiration. Shadows of fleecy clouds chased each other up and down the green slopes of Norwottuck. Along the rocky summit of Bare Mountain summer storms gathered, and from this stronghold marched across the valley. Sturdy evergreens with roots running deep into the scanty soil between the cliffs and boulders diversified the snowy winter landscape. This ever-changing mountain wall, rising against the southern sky, was a perpetual challenge to the youth who afterward climbed those heights, and left for us a vivid word-painting of the scene which he beheld. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.