“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.