Lucy’s Summer

A perfect New England summer in 1910, based on the childhood stories of Donald Hall's own mother. Poet laureate Donald Hall grew up spending his summers on his grandfather's farm in what was then rural New Hampshire. It was there that his mother, Lucy, and her sister Caroline told stories about their childhood - a time when the July Fourth parade in Danbury, New Hampshire was the biggest celebration of the year (complete with flags, speeches, and ice cream) and when a trip to Boston, where toys could be bought for a penny apiece, was counted as a major event. This is a piece of Americana that will bring readers back to a simpler time in which pleasure was derived from making as much as buying, where politics were truly local and not a national circus, and when worth was determined by character, not price.