Another American Adventure: Easy Street

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Easy Street

Yesterday Jubilee and I went someplace the other side of Evans City to check out a trailer that someone has for rent, lease-free. It was on Easy Street. I'm content where we are now - less than 3 miles from where John works - so that I'm hesitant to consider a move. Easy Street was about 30 minutes away, and though we were way out into the country we were never far from a heavily traveled road. It didn't feel like "country" to me. There was a sign just down the street saying "Fresh Brown Eggs for Sale", though. Here are some photos of Easy Street and the countryside.

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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.