Assume nothing

Greensboro, Vt., and Caspian Lake from the southeast as ominous clouds gather. Caspian Lake has long drawn people in the arts and low-key rich people to summer there,

— Photo by Ascended Dreamer

“A genuine New Englander learned by example never to take anything for granted. Once, when I remarked that it was a nice day, my Uncle Henry looked up at the sky, turned in every direction, and seeing there wasn’t a cloud anywhere, took the pipe from his mouth and finally conceded, ‘Well, maybe.’’’

— Lewis Hill (1924-2008) in Fetched-up Yankee (2001). He lived on the family homestead in Greensboro, Vt., where he was a nurseryman.