Another American Adventure: The Hello Wellsville Book

Sunday, December 2, 2012

The Hello Wellsville Book

While FA was here we put together a little "Hello Wellsville" book that we had been talking about for some time. It is a child's tour around Wellsville, with photos of the landmark places.

We ordered a few and I am disappointed in them. Mainly because they are so small. The photos and story are fine, but the book needs to be larger and probably hardbound. These were ordered through "Blurb" (which is fine for self publishing), but I think that if we went with one of the more photo oriented book makers, we would get better quality and price.

You can preview the whole book below!

Hello Wellsville! | Make Your Own Book

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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.