Sarah Orne Jewett — American Author born on September 03, 1849, died on June 24, 1909

Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism... (wikipedia)

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.