From a plastic Adirondack on the back deck of a cabin sealed once but abandoned to a splinter-shaggy-cinder-silver-gray, I’d watched day diminish as vision does when force on eye nerve bloats (vignetting) and I’d come through regimented grass, curt-sleeved, legs mosquito-peppered as guestmates in the big house drowsed on pét-nat and edibles.
I had driven to Nashua to look for farmhouses. I was researching abandoned farmhouses and wanted to find a part of New Hampshire with both rural and urban poverty.
No American of any century has excelled in a greater number of diverse areas than a New Englander named George Perkins Marsh, who was born in the town of Woodstock, Vermont in 1801. Marsh is best remembered today for his pioneering book on the environment Man and Nature, which was first published in 1864 and is still in print.
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