Here at Eagle Pond

In these tender essays, Donald Hall tells of the joys and quiddities of life on the ancestral New Hampshire place formerly worked as a dairy farm by his grandparents, where he spent time as a child and returned to live with his wife, Jane Kenyon, at the age of forty-six. He tells of the comforts and discomforts of a world in which the year has four seasons -- maple sugar, blackfly, Red Sox, and winter. These essays are also Hall's answers to such questions as "What would our lives be like, living here ... in solitude among relics and memories?" And they are ghost stories as well: vivid descriptions of Hall's intimate connection to the land, his family's past, and his coming home to language.