Massachusetts Historical Society

It was even supposed by some that the pond had sunk, and this was one of the primitive forest that formerly stood there.

I find that even so long ago as 1792, in a topographical description of the town of Concord by one of its citizens, in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the author, after speaking of Walden and White Ponds, adds In the middle of the latter may be seen, when the water is very low, a tree which appears as if it grew in the place where it now stands, although the roots are fifty feet below the surface of the water.

The top of this tree is broken off, and at the place measures fourteen inches in diameter.

In the spring of forty-nine I talked with a man who lives nearest the pond in Sudbury, who told me that it was he who got out this tree ten or fifteen years before.

Yes, I am.

In fact, I am about to go on a research trip to Massachusetts where I grew up to look at some firsthand resources at the Massachusetts Historical Society because for my sins, I am endeavoring to write a book set in 1680 in Massachusetts.

And I have never attempted historical fiction.

The closest I've ever gotten to historical fiction has been being that social media manager for the Historical Fiction Book Prize.

It was even supposed by some that the pond had sunk, and this was one of the primitive forest that formerly stood there.

I find that even so long ago as 1792, in a topographical description of the town of Concord by one of its citizens, in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the author, after speaking of Walden and White Ponds, adds, In the middle of the latter may be seen, when the water is very low, a tree which appears as if it grew in the place where it now stands, although the roots are fifty feet below the surface of the water.

The top of this tree is broken off, and at the place measures fourteen inches in diameter.

In the spring of 49 I talked with a man who lives nearest the pond in Sudbury, who told me that it was he who got out this tree ten or fifteen years before.

It was even supposed by some that the pond had sunk, and this was one of the primitive forest that formerly stood there.

I find that even so long ago as 1792, in a topographical description of the town of Concord by one of its citizens, in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the author, after speaking of Walden and White Ponds, adds In the middle of the latter may be seen, when the water is very low, a tree which appears as if it grew in the place where it now stands, although the roots are fifty feet below the surface of the water.

The top of this tree is broken off, and at the place measures fourteen inches in diameter.

In the spring of forty-nine I talked with a man who lives nearest the pond in Sudbury, who told me that it was he who got out this tree ten or fifteen years before.

It was even supposed by some that the pond had sunk, and this was one of the primitive forest that formerly stood there.

I find that even so long ago as 1792, in a topographical description of the town of Concord by one of its citizens, in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the author, after speaking of Walden and White Ponds, adds, In the middle of the latter may be seen, when the water is very low, a tree which appears as if it grew in the place where it now stands, although the roots are fifty feet below the surface of the water.

The top of this tree is broken off, and at the place measures fourteen inches in diameter.

In the spring of 49 I talked with a man who lives nearest the pond in Sudbury, who told me that it was he who got out this tree ten or fifteen years before.