On a raw, sleety day Whittier remembers the procession of wanderers who came to his family’s farm when he was a boy: peddlers with packs, vagrant fiddlers, a self-styled poet guarding his basket of verses, fortune-tellers and shiftless beggars, all received with Quaker hospitality by his father and mother.
A short, affectionate essay of rural New England memory by the poet of Snow-Bound. Download the free EPUB.