Remember the Morning (2011)
“It had been an exhausting journey up the Mohawk to the great portage, where we dragged the bateau and canoes on rollers to Wood Creek. On this narrow winding watercourse, a huge fallen tree blocked our passage. It had to be sawed up and hauled out of the water with backbreaking labor. Next we paddled across the lake of the Oneidas. They had a great palisaded castle on its shores. Their chiefs made no secret of their expectation of generous presents and we took pains to please them, not wanting ...to find ourselves on the wrong end of their hatchets. Finally we traversed the Oswego River to the British bastion on the shore of Lake Ontario.
The bulky stone fort loomed against the skyline of the immense empty lake. From its ramparts a huge red British flag whipped and crackled in the cold March wind, a symbol of royal power and pride. The geometry of the jutting parapets and casements proclaimed order and dignity and strength. For the first time, I glimpsed the meaning of the word empire.
Then I got a closer look at the world that surrounded the fort.MoreLess
The bulky stone fort loomed against the skyline of the immense empty lake. From its ramparts a huge red British flag whipped and crackled in the cold March wind, a symbol of royal power and pride. The geometry of the jutting parapets and casements proclaimed order and dignity and strength. For the first time, I glimpsed the meaning of the word empire.
Then I got a closer look at the world that surrounded the fort.MoreLess
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