![]() ![]() Unless you are in urgent need of sandwiches, Cokes, sunscreen, or rock and roll tapes, drive through Chincoteague without stopping.” ![]() “People now grown who had the good fortune to read Marguerite Henry’s book Misty of Chincoteague when they were young,” he writes, “and who formed a mental picture of a little old-fashioned fishing village where a wild silvery pony found a happy home are in for some measure of disillusionment. Although his dismay is heartfelt, his wry humor never fails him. Today more than half the population of the United States lives within an hour’s drive of this coast, and everywhere Thorndike goes he finds overdevelopment, erosion, pollution, and loss of wildlife. ![]() ![]() It was her first look at the system of slavery that supported her, and what she saw horrified her. The author walks Cape Cod in the imagined company of Henry David Thoreau and visits Georgia’s Sea Islands, remembering the English actress Fanny Kemble, who arrived there in 1838 with her husband of four years, the owner of a local rice plantation. One of the founding editors of American Heritage, Thorndike brings to this account of his journeys all he knows of previous travelers, including the artist Winslow Homer, who summered at Prouts Neck, Maine, and guarded his privacy by planting a sign in his garden: SNAKES, SNAKES, AND MICE. Thorndike traveled the entire length of the Atlantic shoreline from West Quoddy Head in Maine to Key West, Florida. In a series of trips taken over a number of years, Joseph J. ![]()
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