Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-08-05
Chicago, July 27th, 1910.
Mr.. w. II. Bishop,
Editor Essex County Herald,
Island Pond, Vt.

Island Pond Vt.
My dear friend -
While the writer has been removed
from your community for some time
and during that period has never given
much thought or attention to the little
town in the mountains, a few items Ito
gether with the letter from my father
in-law, Mr.. NJ. II. Davis, recently pub
lished by you) have just read in sew
eral of your papers handed me tonight
by my friend, Robert CLARK, moves me
very strongly to write you a line.
The time spent in your little town by
the writer may have been turned to bet
ter advantage, and the experiences fruit
full of better results than were borne
forth upon my departure, but WIENER
MY thoughts are turned to the past and
my brief sojourn with you of a few
years ago, they are always thoughts of
considerable pleasure.
They could not be otherwise, for
among the mountains, in the little vii
age by the pond WAS born and reared
to womanhood (to my mind) the best
little woman in the world. (She has
proven so to me, at leaSt)
| L. F,,r, IL $1,000, 1. /, .,
town has charms that never since have
| found in all nv travels. have trav.
elled about quite bit since ! saw you
last, friend Bishop, and perhaps have
prospered little, but many time have
| longed for the calm, majestic grandeur
of the mountains and the restful peace
that comes to one while in their sight
and surroundings.
To my mind there is no town in either
the White Mountains or the Adiron-
dacks (my travel thus far has been linn
tied to those, but believe they are &C.
knowledged to be as fine and as grand
in beauty as any this country affords)
that offers the scenery and charm that
is in Island Pond and its surroundings
| And the person who decrys this state
ment, be they native (the blush OF
shame should mantle their face forever
and e'er) or guest, to MY mind must be
entirely devoid of the finer sensibilities
that bring the noble and finer things OF
the world and creation into the lives OF
men and beings.
And yet that would hardly be sufi
cient. For the most simple minded
person with the weakest imaginable in
tellect could not be otherwise than i'm
pressed should he once see the sun rise
on clear spring morning from the
Eastern sky over the little town in the
valley. 49,,
And the roads, the drives, the pond
the mountains-I regret that business
career has deprived Inc Of the flow O.
beautiful expressions so necessary to d.
Justice in describing them.
But leaving all this aside, from ;
business standpoint there are no create
opport unities in the country than il
Island Pond and the grand old state o
Vermont. The writer comes from
= Massachusetts, it is true, and hold l.,
state higher than her, but justice wher
l justice is due.
7 Many people are just now engaging
in wild scramble fox Western farm
lands. They are good, it is true, ant
l many fortunes have been made witt
them, but it is also true that man
fortunes have been made with the farm
. lands of old Vermont. And it is an es
tablished fact that if the same time
t money and effort in scientific cultiva
:, ton were to be expended upon the ap
r parently abandoned and worthless farm
d of the Green Mountain State, equal, i
I. not better results would he obtained.
:. The inhabitants of New England tc
n day, in the country districts siml ly nee'
r a little more life and progression. Tn
n young generation that is now growin
e to manhood and womanhood must b
;, encouraged to stay at home. The rus