“New York has people, the Northwest rain, Iowa soybeans, and Texas money. New Hampshire has weather and seasons.’’
Donald Hall (1928-2018) in Here at Eagle Pond, essays about the poet’s home turf ,in very rural Wilmot, N.H.
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“Some of us spend our lives preferring Fall to all the seasons …taking Spring only as prologue and Summer as the gently inclined platform leading all too slowly to the annual dazzle.’’
— Mr. Hall in Seasons at Eagle Pond
Wilmot Baptist Church
