Provincial Board Member

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“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.”
—Man Ray (1890–1976)