T M Shorewick

Trails, Streams and Old Rails of Southeast Pennsylvania T M Shorewick

Haiku is used here as a mechanism to capture bits of motion frozen in a photograph and stimulate feelings which reanimate the image for the viewer. Furthermore each viewer might have a different consideration of the verse's prompting. Haiku's very ambiguity in the face of specific reality is what makes it delightful and provocative. In some sense I hope that haiku turns these still Images that follow into, however briefly, a feeling similar to what the reader might experience were they transported to the living, moving site from which the photograph originated. The focus of this book's coverage is Delaware and Chester Counties of South East Pennsylvania. Delaware County has been experiencing development, in the European or modern sense, since the arrival of the Finns several centuries prior. Lesser developed Chester County is currently experiencing development at a rapid pace. Thanks to local, county, and state authorities and some private foundations we do have excellent parks which preserve the woodlands and streams which form the backbone of this book. Images in this book were taken largely at Ridley Creek State Park, dcnr.pa.gov; Hibernia County Park, chesco.org/1743/Hibernia-park; and the lands of the Newlin Grist Mill, newlingristmill.org. The Newlin land holds the remains of the abandoned rail line which features at the end of this book.