Christmas Treesby Robert Frost A Christmas Circular Letter The city had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When between whirls of snow not come to lie And whirls of foliage not yet laid, there drove A stranger to our yard, who looked the city, Yet did in country fashion […]
Literature of Nature
Gazette Column: “Winter offers a whole new way to view and enjoy the forest”
Today’s Gazette features Virginia Otis’s monthly column about nature… “Go to the winter woods. There is nothing more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow,” wrote Fiona MacLeod in “Where The Forest Murmurs.” (1906) It is an invitation to go snowshoeing, skiiing, or hiking on snowmobile trails to see that clean […]
Poem: “Dear Neighbors”
NSNA member Joyce Devine kindly shares another poem with us, “Dear Neighbors”…See also:Poem: “We Have Faith”Photo Essay: The Forest Behind View Avenue
The Nature of Northampton: Henry James and Tracy Kidder
Henry James captures the air of Northampton in Roderick Hudson (1875)… …The next day was Sunday, and Rowland proposed that they should take a long walk and that Roderick should show him the country. The young man assented gleefully, and in the morning, as Rowland at the garden gate was giving his hostess Godspeed on her […]
Poem: “We Have Faith”
Poem: Song for Rana
Charlotte Muse has kindly given us permission to reprint this poem, the winning entry in the 2007 W.B. Yeats Society of New York Contest. SONG FOR RANA by Charlotte Muse Epigraph: The frog (Rana; of the family Ranidae) isdisappearing all over the world. Come back to our dreams with your cold and warty skin your […]