We leave this back page to a continuing series of quotes from Henry David Thoreau's Walden,
paired with a Concord scene... both applicable to the season.

New England can hire all the wise men in the world to come and teach her, and board them round the while, and not be provincial at all. That is the uncommon school we want. Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.