Anne Dillard - An American Childhood, and other books such as Blackbird, Salt Dancers and Fall to Your Knees have touched my life. I love being outside in the woods, by a river or lake or sitting on a rock by the sea. Our childhoods remain with us forever in one way or another. This book is for the people who lived by the river in Collinsville. I grew up near farmland and woods in CT and love New England. Enjoy