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Andrew:
Well, that happens in "A White Heron". Because it's set in Jewett's native Maine I took it along a few years ago when we visited Acadia National Park, staying in a cottage overlooking Southwest Harbor. I read it aloud one evening to my partner and the friend who came with us. And had great difficulty controlling my voice as I read the last paragraph.
Front-Ranger:
This is on the Internet! at
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/awh/awh-cont.htm
along with a lot of her other things.
Andrew:
Did you have a chance to read it, Front-Ranger? Did you like it...even a little bit? I read it in high school when it was in the anthology for our English class. And something made me remember it and want to seek it out years later, though I was too young to know what I thought about it or about much of anything the first time around.
Front-Ranger:
Yes, I just finished reading it and liked it very much. I can't wait to read more of her work! Have to explore the whole site. As for you, Andrew, I might have to start calling U Thoreau. I have several Rokcy Mountain wildflower pics to post on your Nature Journal
Andrew:
I'll look forward to the wildflowers. Unfortunately I don't think any of Jewett's other stories are at all like A White Heron, she put everything she had to say about nature in that one story. But I know there are other stories about small town life and I want to read them.
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