‘To which we must return’

Muddy dirt road during mud season in Maine

— Photo by Jared C. Benedict 

“It is mud season. God’s yearly reminder to us of the clay from which we rose and to which we must return, hill people and Commoners alike.’’

Howard Frank Mosher (1942-1917), novelist, in Where the Rivers Flow North. Virtually everything he wrote for publication was set in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, where he lived in Irasburg.

Panoramic view of Willoughby Notch and Mount Pisgah, in the Northeast Kingdom

— Photo by Patmac13