A Little Brook
Personal memory by Kathryn Joy
1953 • Family farm - Northern Maine USA
When I was little, in the middle of my farm was a little brook with lots of brambles, dead trees, tall trees. I caught small trout every week in that brook. It was a wonderful, quiet place to be. Now the brook is gone, filled in so crops can be planted.
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