Bullough's Pond, in Newton, Mass.
— Photo by John Phelan
“Yankee wealth is the creation of human hands, not of nature. Our soil is thin, our weather cold, and the mineral resources that lie under our mountains are negligible. Yet the people who live here are and have long been prosperous….Over and over again people in this small corner of the planet have faced disaster in the forms of economic collapse or resource dearth and overcome the odds.”
— Diana Muir in her book Reflections in Bullough’s Pond, a mill pond in Newton, Mass.
