I finished this months ago but wanted it to linger in my mind. Merrick and his wife moved from the Arctic Circle to the Northeast Kingdom in Vermont in the 1930‘s. While this photo is of a VT farm, it is definitely not Merrick‘s. In an old homestead, they start their family. I loved reading his stories of that time, where the ice on the lake was 3 feet deep (not anymore!), neighbors were crucial, and the snow was difficult to navigate. 🔽