New England Diary

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Mounts to go missing in the emulsion

At the summit of Mt. Kearsarge, in Merrimack County, N.H.

“In fifteen years

Monadnock and Kearsarge

…will turn

invisible….’’

— From “Scenic View,’’ by New Hampshire-based poet and essayist Donald Hall (1928-2018)

Mount Monadnock, as painted by Richard Whitney in Monadnock Orchard’’

Richard Whitney