New England Diary

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‘Flames’

— Photo by DigbyDalton

“Cardinals at the windows see enemy

black and white newspapers turn to color

reflections or crimson hills or horses

for added effect. There’s lots of red now, flames….”

— From “Coups de Coeur (Wounds to the Heart),’’ by Pat Frisella, a Farmington, N.H.-based poet

The Thayer and Osborn shoe factory in Farmington in 1915. The town was once a major shoemaking center.