Reviews for Where the Potomac Begins: A History of the North Branch Valley - Gilbert Gude

The average rating for Where the Potomac Begins: A History of the North Branch Valley - Gilbert Gude based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-13 00:00:00 Eric Lammerts Buen libro! Todo cristiano debe leerlo. Ayuda mucho a conocer la historia de la iglesia desde el siglo I hasta ahora. Uno puede contemplar la Gracia Soberana de Dios obrando a favor de Su iglesia y cumpliendo Su Promesa de que las puertas del Hades no prevalecerá!. Bastante revelador de datos que desconocía.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-21 00:00:00 Kevin Murphy David M. Carroll is a consummate artist, essayist and observer of nature. From his home in Warner, New Hampshire he explores the woodlands, swamps and hills avidly observing everything he comes across. He records his observations in journals and in paintings and each of the books that he has written from these pages has reached a far-flung quiet success. This is not a suspenseful page turner Carroll brings your through reflections – lyrical and literal – of the trout and it’s surroundings from the beginning of the year to the end. His passion for his subject seeps from every carefully chosen word. and brush stroke. The book begins in the dead of winter “Between Snows” on 5 January “Between the snows in early January I walk out on to the mantle of ice and snow that covers the meadow pond. I can walk on water now, walk over the world of the trout. The sky has gone as gray as the ice where wind-sweep has kept it clear of snow. Most of the small pond is a pure white plain, against which are set the black and straw-old scripts of emergent grass, rush, sedge and shrub; fine-lined writing on a white ground. ” (1) cont...