“In and Out of the Adirondack Woods”
Kate Field (July 1869)
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I had sought the Adirondacks in many a summer dream, and on a sunny day in July 1869 I found my horizon bounded by the waving summits of its mountains and my boat gliding over the yielding bosom of its lakes.
— Kate Field (Journalist)
Here's her charming diary,
"In and Out of the Adirondack Woods"
"In and Out of the Adirondack Woods"
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Reading this makes me want to gather all my woodsman gear and personal effects, pile them on the sidewalk outside my urban core Philadelphia row-house home, smash my computer and cell phone, drive to lake Saranac, rent a canoe and disappear into the northland forever.
American culture is a drone of death, a buzz, a bomber, a blitz, a bolt of lightning whose searing white light seems immortal only until it vanishes into a screaming primal darkness.
The center did not hold (clearly) and there is no longer any periphery — only spam.
Editor’s response: Brilliant! Heart-breaking!
For those of you who don’t know, the line, “the center did not hold,” is from Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (click here).