“The long hot summer
Seems
to know every time you’re near
And
a touch of the trees gently stirs all the trees
And
a bird wants to please my ear …
And
meanwhile,
The
long hot summer slowly moves along.
Oh
so slowly moves along.”
~ Theme from the 1958 film
“The
Long, Hot Summer” starring Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, based in part on
three works by one of my favorite authors, William Faulkner (1867-1962), Southern American
author and Nobel Prize Laureate
~ Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, composed
by
Alex North, recorded by Jimmie Rodgers
Blue
Mountain, also called the Kittatinny Ridge, can be seen in the distance.
Alex North, recorded by Jimmie Rodgers
The
Schuylkill River meanders around the bend along the Schuylkill River Trail in
historic Hamburg, Pennsylvania on a late June afternoon. The river slowly moves
along in summer, my most favorite of seasons, through the town officially
founded in 1787 and named after Hamburg, Germany.
