By the Wayside
- 1927
- Digital pigment print from original Bert Call negative
- Print Size 30 X 22 in / 76.2 x 55.9 cm
- Frame Size 37 X 30 in / 94.0 x 76.2 cm
“I noticed occasionally very long troughs which supplied the road with water, and my companion said that three dollars annually were granted by the State, to one man in each school district, who provided and maintained a suitable water-trough by the road-side, for the use of travelers; a piece of intelligence as refreshing to me as the water itself. That legislature did not sit in vain. It was an oriental act, which made me wish that I was still further down east-another Maine law, which I hope we may get in Massachusetts. That state is banishing bar-rooms from its highways, and conducting the mountain springs thither.”
—Henry David Thoreau, “1853 Chesuncook”, The Maine Woods