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Monthly Archives: December 2019
Whiskey Run
1. The beauty of the stream is a simple gift, a holiday revelation. There’s a wholeness to its many parts where pool and riffle, snowy bank and mossy rock cohere. The solitude, the wooded hills, the winter trout are gathered … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegheny foothills, brook trout, fly-fishing, holidays, nature, Pine Creek, poetry, prose, Whiskey Run, wild brown trout, writing
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Pilgrimage
Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, has been a favorite book of mine for nearly 45 years. I’ve long appreciated this record of a life well-spent and, thus, have long resisted the temptation of visiting the book’s post-glacial centerpiece near … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, Authors' Ridge, Concord, Emerson, freedom, history, Massachusetts, pilgrimage, Thoreau, Transcendentalists, Walden Pond, walking, writing
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Rivertop Rambles 