Another American Adventure: Minnie and Merci

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Minnie and Merci

While we were in NY, we were able to see my cousin, Mary Lou, and her 2 grand-daughters, Minnie and Merci. Mary Lou is an accomplished artist who has amazed me with her graceful creations since we were children. (check out her website HERE). They have recently moved from Plymouth MA to Scarsdale NY - only a short drive from Ooma's apartment. After seeing their new home (and helping get a broken branch out of a tree!) we went to Glen Island, and then to Ooma's apartment for pizza. It's wonderful to find my old Kentucky family mixed into our NY stomping grounds!

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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.