Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

95 pp. Gilt title on front board. Top page ridge gilt. Color frontispiece by John J. Enneking, drawings by Howard Pyle, Edmund H. Garrett, decorations by Adrian J. Iorio. A long narrative poem by the popular American author who was also an outspoken advocate for abolition. "The narrative consists of a family living in what would later be known as the John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, a large home in rural Massachusetts. During a harsh winter, as a blizzard of snow rages outside for three days, the family are snowed in and take to telling one another stories. The atmosphere of warmth, conviviality and rural solidarity were felt to depict an era which was fast becoming history - as the USA rapidly modernized, its homely past dissipated."