'Exotic wayfarers' from 'away'

Panoramic view of Willoughby Notch and Mount Pisgah, on the "Northeast Kingdom''.-  Photo by Patmac13

Panoramic view of Willoughby Notch and Mount Pisgah, on the "Northeast Kingdom''.

-  Photo by Patmac13

"During the years that I lived with my grandparents in Lost Nation Hollow , a number of itinerant specialists could be counted on to visit Kingdom County {Vermont's "Northeast Kingdom''} each year. I had no idea where most of these exotic wayfarers hailed from. "Away,'' most of us called anywhere more than five miles beyond the county line. Or' the other side of the hills.' All I knew for certain is that since we could not go to them, the mind readers and barnstorming four-man baseball teams and one-elephant family circuses came to us.''

-- Howard Frank Mosher, in Northern Borders