Thoreau Country - Location Note

Fair Haven Hill in moonlight from the river

Written in pencil on verso of the Thoreau Society print is the date 6/14/1851, referring to this Thoreau journal entry:

"The moon was now seen rising over Fair Haven and at the same time reflecting in the river, pale and white like a silvery cloud, barred with a cloud, not promising how it will shine anon."

Is that a canoe at the bend of the river?

Author Frank Bolles wrote a memorable story about camping and owls in the pines at the right in "A Voyage to Heard's Island," Land of the Lingering Snow (1891). [Undated photo by Herbert W. Gleason from the archives of the Thoreau Society. Used with permission. Identification information states that the subject is "Moon rising on Fair Haven Bay" but I am not sure if this is Gleason's identification. I believe this photo was taken of Fair Haven Hill from Heath's Bridge, and that the body of water is the Sudbury (Concord) River a mile downstream of Fair Haven Bay. Conantum and "Frank Bolles' Pines" are at the right.]

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