The Summer Experiment (2014)
“In many places, they block the sun from ever shining on the layer of needles and leaves that carpet the forest floor. No timber has been cut up there since Old Man Peterson and his sons felled trees with a crosscut saw and hauled them down the mountain with a team of horses. Most of the mountain now belongs to the state and is preserved from cutting.
Sometimes, if you’re walking up to the top and you stop to listen, it’s as if the wind in the trees is whispering secrets to you. You might ev...en hear ghostly music, what sounds like a lonesome fiddle playing. Before you think it’s a party going on in 1914, however, you might see that it’s one dead tree leaning on another and moving back and forth in the wind. Nature’s music. And you will remember that all the Petersons are dead and gone, their houses and barns disappearing into the earth.
That doesn’t mean, of course, that there aren’t ghost fiddlers up there somewhere in that dense forest of pine and spruce.MoreLess
Sometimes, if you’re walking up to the top and you stop to listen, it’s as if the wind in the trees is whispering secrets to you. You might ev...en hear ghostly music, what sounds like a lonesome fiddle playing. Before you think it’s a party going on in 1914, however, you might see that it’s one dead tree leaning on another and moving back and forth in the wind. Nature’s music. And you will remember that all the Petersons are dead and gone, their houses and barns disappearing into the earth.
That doesn’t mean, of course, that there aren’t ghost fiddlers up there somewhere in that dense forest of pine and spruce.MoreLess
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