Wherever you go there you are
View of the Presidential Range from the Bretton Woods, N.H. resort. It was also the site of the 1944 international conference called to make plans for the Free World’s post-World War II economic system.
“My outer world and inner make a pair.
But would the two be always of a kind?
Another latitude, another mind?
Or would I be New England anywhere?’’
— From “New England Mind,’’ by Robert Francis (1901-1987), American poet and teacher who lived most of life in Amherst, Mass. Here’s the whole poem.