Summer as verb

View of   summer houses in Hampton Bays, on Long Island

— Photo by Masterchief1307 

“When I left the State of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.’’

— Alexander Chee (born 1967 in Rhode lsland but spent much of his youth in Maine), novelist, poet and nonfiction writer. He now teaches at Dartmouth College.