The Appalachians, Pennsylvania
Appalachian Summer, by Marcia Bonta (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999)
Marcia Bonta shares a day-to-day account of summer in the Appalachians. Walking the trails near her home, Bonta follows the season, from May’s briefest hint to September’s turn toward autumn. Through journal entries, readers meet the “natural life of one place…on the westernmost ridge of the ridge-and-valley province of south central Pennsylvania.”
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From Appalachian Summer, by Marcia Bonta:
“September 21. Summer is going out in a blaze of glory. The eastern phoebe regained his voice this morning after becoming silent in late June. The phoebe was followed by an eastern bluebird song.”
“September 22. Fifty-eight degrees and raining at dawn. With less than twelve hours to go before fall officially arrives, it began raining at 3: A.M…. It was fitting that this wet summer rained itself out and that the cool green woods of summer were giving way to the bright warm colors of early autumn.”