We knew the history of the area, of course;
reckoning that with a Heritage Site
just over the hill
planning permits would be hard to get
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I'll get there in the end - Battle of Brandywine (Creek) , 1777... but it's meant generally...
I mean the War of Independence don't I... humble apologies...
I could be in deep uncharted and uncompassed waters here...it's an emotional excursion into the mental world of your great American painter obsessed by the battlegrounds and memories of the Civil War - Andrew Wyeth of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. I'd often written about him from the art aspect; I just wondered what it would be like to move to that area unprepared, so to speak. And again not entitled to speak on this: post-9.11 brings its further sentiments about the American landscape of the heart? I was about to erase this verse today if there were no comments, Rich - but I've hit the expert! !
I like this Michael. I can see those faces, and sense the dubiousness of understanding, based on an artifact, what all that misery was for. The last stanza seems deletable. It's you 'pronouncing.' The gem ending was the stanza right before.