Margaret Donovan

Mill Pond Waterfall at Manchester Riverwalk in Manchester, Vermont.

Winter on the Riverwalk

We would like to share with you these stirring words from Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Fruits: “What are the natural features which make a township handsome and worth going far to dwell in? A river with its waterfalls, meadows, lakes, hills, cliffs, or inĀ­dividual rocks, a forest and single ancient trees. Such things are beautiful. They have a high use which dollars and cents never represent. If the inhabitants of