Heart of New England

In these pages, Abbie Farwell Brown assembles a lyrical portrait of New England - its stone walls and autumn maples, its burying grounds where Puritans sleep, its village greens where history echoes. The collection moves between narrative and lyric poems that honor the Pilgrim inheritance and colonial past while giving voice to the region's folkloric traditions: ghostly legends that linger in salt marshes and white clapboard houses, old customs whispered across generations. Brown's verse moves between intimate family memory and broader civic pride, capturing a New England that existed in the early twentieth-century imagination: romanticized, haunted, stubbornly distinct. The poems carry readers through maritime villages and inland farmlands, through autumn harvests and winter snows, always returning to the question of what it means to inherit a place and its spirits. For readers who love regional American poetry, New England history, or the quiet magic of verse that listens for voices in old walls.