Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches)
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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notablewriters, who had either permanent or summer housesthere, or came thither as visitors, that it was called ajungle of literary^ lions. Among the rest was Haw-thorne, who came in the spring of 1850 to dwell withhis family in a little red house in Stockbridge, just overthe line from Lenox. Down below, in the valley, wasa beautiful lake, and roundabout were hills and moun-tains. While there he wrote The Wonder Book,which boys and girls have read with delight ever since. 142 New England Each day he went with his children, Una and Julian,to a farmhouse half a mile distant for milk along aroad that he called The Milky Way ; and he used to play with themflying kites,went nuttingand climbingtrees, madeboats for themto sail on thelake, tookthem fishingand flower-gathering, andtried to teachthem to swim.In winter hewas their com-panion incoasting, andin building apalace of snowwith ice win-dows. Yet hewas so shywith strangers that he would jump a fence to avoidmeeting them on the highway.
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The old while church in Lenox

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