Gene wrote about her friends at the Riverside Cemetery in "Tales You Won't Believe" which was published after her death. "The field lay in Limberlost territory, east of the village [Geneva] where I lived and worked for 15 years. It was bordered on one side by a flowing road running east and west and fairly well encircled east, south and west in the arms of a loving curve of the Wabash River.....Proof that I do not overrate the sheer beauty, the charm of this city of long sleep. Among those who lie beside the winding roadway, cradled by the arms of the river, daily visited by the birds descended from those worked among, rest many who were my best friends."
Gene Stratton-Porter made many good friends in Geneva. She wrote about several of them in her non-fiction books and magazine articles and had composite characters based on others in her fiction books. Gene was especially fond of the area around the Riverside Cemetery and those that helped her in her bird studies. Several allowed Gene access to their yards and farms and even told her about nests they thought she would want to photograph. Others would bring her a cool drink and food when she spent the day doing her field work. Some of her best bird photography was conducted here.
Gene wrote about her friends at the Riverside Cemetery in "Tales You Won't Believe" which was published after her death. "The field lay in Limberlost territory, east of the village [Geneva] where I lived and worked for 15 years. It was bordered on one side by a flowing road running east and west and fairly well encircled east, south and west in the arms of a loving curve of the Wabash River.....Proof that I do not overrate the sheer beauty, the charm of this city of long sleep. Among those who lie beside the winding roadway, cradled by the arms of the river, daily visited by the birds descended from those worked among, rest many who were my best friends." Comments are closed.
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