t s u m m e r g u i d e 2 0 1 7 1 8 7 iC nS 1931 wiLLiam tre asKis oftHeLion.org, BiLLtre asKis Overjoyed y anne m rr Lind ergh & eLiza eth maynard t , t o oints o vie . a m L and e m share the o m across the decades. I t was one of those strange flash- ing seconds in life when you can draw the strands of the past and the future together in your hand and tie them firmly in a knot. For, as I vi- sualize that summer’s flight, stretching like a taut string over the top of the globe, the knotted end is held fast in North Haven. The trip to Maine used to be a long and slow one. There was plenty of time in the night, spattered away in the sleeper, in the morning spent ferrying across the river at Bath, in the afternoon syncopated into a series of calls on one coast town after an- other–there was plenty of time to make the mental change coinciding with our physi- cal change. Our minds could quietly step across the connecting passage from city to country, from school to vacation, from win- ter to summer. In the afternoon, when the train, like a busy housewife, did not have time to stop and chatter long to each sta- tion, but could not pass by without a friend- ly puff and a nod, as each town showed us a typically Maine landmark–a harbor full of little boats all pulling at their buoys, a white steeple, or a field of daisies–we were reminded of and prepared for our own har- bor and field and steeple. As we neared our geographical destination we were also near- ing our emotional one. The last lap of the