“We came like others to a country of farmers –
Puritans, Catholics, Scotch Irish, Quebecois:
bought a failed Yankee’s empty house and barn
from a prospering Yankee,
Jews following Yankee footprints,
prey to many myths but most of all
that Nature makes us free….”
From “Living Memory’’ by Adrienne Rich (1929-2012). She lived for time in the smalll western Massachusetts town of Montague.
