Henry David Thoreau for Kids by Corinne Smith

Author:Corinne Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
Published: 2016-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Herbert W. Gleason sits in “Thoreau’s seat” on Monadnock. From Elizabeth Weston Timlow’s The Heart of Monadnock, 1922.

From the author’s collection

Perhaps the others didn’t even pay attention to the fog that often lay in the valleys below. Or they didn’t see how little clouds seemed bent on “forming and dissolving” just overhead, as if they “had been attracted by the summit.” Thoreau watched and studied these bits of moisture and their interactions with Monadnock. And when they cleared away, he could look around and identify a number of the other peaks of New England. In August 1860, he turned toward the west and wrote: “I never saw a mountain that looked so high and so melted away at last cloud-like into the sky, as Saddleback this eve…. If you had first rested your eye on it, you would have seen it for a cloud, it was so incredibly high in the sky.” And yet, it was indeed a mountain. At 3,491 feet above sea level, it was the tallest one in Massachusetts.

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