Fort Plain Free Library

LHR 811.08. Gre Greene, Nelson 34 poems by eight Fort Plainers and one other. Fort Plain, Nelson Greene, date unknown (n.d.), 15 p., illus., 24 cm.

A number of the poems in this book were first published in the Fort Plain Standard and Canajoharie Courier newspapers. The authors featured include George W. Elliott, Robert F. Minnich, Douglas Ayres, Jr., Laura Taylor Ayres, Victoria Roch Jenkins, Lillian Lester Greene, Lillian Steinert Greene, Nelson Greene, and Demarest Cassidy.

Verses about landmarks, people, seasons, and war, including the locally familiar “Bonnie Eloise, the Belle of the Mohawk Vale” and the “Fort Plain School Song” comprise the collection.