What I want after the pandemic
“Forget the frank, the hot dog —
Give me the Fenway sausage.
Landsdowne or Yawkey,
Just give me the street, the crowds, the carts.’’
— From “Sausage,’’ by Raymond Foss (born 1960). Trained as a lawyer, he’s now mostly a poet. He lives in Barrington, N.H.
Barrington is now a bedroom community with farms and lots of woodland.
Back in the early 19th Century its primary industry was iron-ore smelting. The Isinglass River, together with its tributaries, provided water power for grist and saw mills for many decades.