In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v5

Quiet, stoic granite men and women

Long in the land and happy for the stillness,
The solitude of the ancient hayfield,
the thick wood, the craggy shore, the stormy sea

Sometimes more gregarious

that sparkle in their eye

an inside joke within them

waiting to come out, to burst forth

Flinty like the earth, this land
dependable as the seasons
Taciturn Yankees one and all
Of older stuff and remembering the creed
of holding the tongue, stiff upper lip
and shoulder to the task at hand
Idle hands they have not
And we are richer for it.


edited March 25, 2014

In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v5

(editing original again)

Edited December 23, 2013

In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/in-praise-of-taciturn-yankees-v4.html

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Edited November 28, 2013

In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/in-praise-of-taciturn-yankees-v3.html

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(Thanksgiving Day)

Edited May 4, 2013

“In Praise of Taciturn Yankees – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-praise-of-taciturn-yankees-v2.html

September 20, 2005 12:41

“In Praise of Taciturn Yankees”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/09/in-praise-of-taciturn-yankees.html

– While I was driving to work this morning on Rte 101 in NH, one of the NHPR reporters was talking about the new Encyclopedia of New England (http://www.unh.edu/news/news_releases/2005/september/em_050919encyclopedia.htm). They were commenting how New England isn’t just made up of maple syrup, town meetings, and taciturn Yankees.

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