mill-magazine

Updated: May 6, 2025

I lived and breathed with them, out under the free winds of heaven; and when I could not see them, I wrote about them. Much that I contributed to those mill-magazine pages, they suggested, my mute teachers, comforters, and inspirers. It seems to me that any one who does not care for wild flowers misses half the sweetness of this mortal life.

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)