taghkonic

Updated: May 28, 2025

Taghkonic brooded above it in gentle majesty, and the scarce seen river wound its quiet course among the meadows. No touch of drought or decay had yet passed upon the luxuriant foliage; but the autumnal flowers were already glowing in the fields and on the waysides, and, mingled with ferns and ripened grain, were heaped in rich profusion by the loving hands of young girls to adorn the church.

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter

So the Taghkonic is to be made a watering-place, if the thing is feasible, in quite another sense than that in which it has long sent its streams and cast its lonely shadows upon our valley. We are having winter at last, and our ice-houses filled with the best of ice, and the prospect is fair for the wood-piles. The books you sent are turning to great account with us.

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter

Great changes are projected in Sheffield, you will have to come and see them and us, a widening of the village on the east, towards the meadow and pine knoll, and what do you think? a railroad to the top of Taghkonic! 'T is even so-proposed.

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter

This marrying is the cruellest thing; and it is a perfect wonder and mystery of Providence that parents give in to it as they do. To Rev. Henry W Bellows, D.D. SHEFFIELD, Feb. 20, 666. Dear old Taghkonic, quiet, happy valley, blessed, undisturbed fireside,-what contrast could be greater than New York to all this!

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter