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A Summer Scene
From: Humanities
Date: 20070901
Author:Franklin, Wayne
As spring advanced in I 825 and james Fenimore Cooper was immersed in the grim forest of The Last of the Mohicans, his family made plans to leave New York City for more pleasant quarters. After successfully weathering the usual "bustle and confusion" such shifts entailed, they crossed the East River to Queens to take up residence in an old farm cottage, which belonged to a wealthy New York friend, Colonel George Gibbs.
The Coopers had the run of Gibbs's magnificent farm. With its own wharf on the shore below the stretch of turbulent waters called Hell Gate, the estate catered to the ...
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