Today, Heather and I wanted to get away from town. We chose to walk the Bohaker Wilderness Trail at Delaps Cove on the Bay of Fundy.
We walked out to Meier Point. There is a commemoration stone from the family. It contains the following quotation from Gerard Manley Hopkins.
“What would the world be once bereft of wet and wildness. O let them be left wet and wildness. Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
Afterwards, we stopped for lunch at the Crows Nest in Hillsburn.
They serve an excellent fish chowder.
Somehow, this discovery seems to bode well for the collaboration between Christian and myself (see Mapping the Geography of Places) Christian Gastmeier and Bob Maher.
Postscript
While no picture of the commemoration stone from the family could be located, a description of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry was found, described in Frances Cafferata’s MA Thesis Dissertation from the University of British Columbia, “Gerard Manley Hopkins’ use of nature in his poetry“.
Ernest Blair Experiment 