“Summer will end soon enough, and
childhood as well.”
~ George R.R. Martin,
~ born 1948
The innocence of childhood meets the
sweetness of a summer afternoon as this little girl, wearing a shirt splashed
with the American flag, casts her fishing pole into Leaser Lake, New Tripoli,
Pennsylvania, in a scene that paints the essence of halcyon summer days.
Leaser Lake’s namesake is Frederick
Leaser, who in Sept 1777 with his farm team hauled The Liberty Bell from
Philadelphia to Allentown where it was concealed in Zion Reformed Church. His
homestead is located one mile north of the lake.
The lake is in the shadow of the northern Blue Mountain Ridge.
The lake is in the shadow of the northern Blue Mountain Ridge.
