'A local abstraction;'
Mist upstream of the Bissell Bridge, between Windsor and South Windsor, Conn
”It is the third commonness with light and air,
A curriculum, a vigor, a local abstraction . . .
Call it, one more, a river, an unnamed flowing….’’
— From “The River of Rivers in Connecticut,’’ by Wallace Stevens (18790-1955). It’s “about” the Connecticut River. Like many in the Nutmeg State in his lifetime, he was an insurance executive.
“View of the City of Hartford, Connecticut,’’ by William Havell, a 19th Century painter