Green Hollow

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THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. July 3, 1902

"GREEN HOLLOW".

 --  In a recent journey a Herald reporter chanced to visit the picturesque hamlet of Green Hollow. It lies in what is generally known as the Waubonsie Hills and rivals the grandeur of Lover's Lane, Barefoot Nation or Slippery Elm District which have been so graphically portrayed in poetry and song.

  Now is the time to visit this place, as later the season will force upon it a more business like aspect and the vision will not be so enchanting, as now dale meets forest and the sweep of meadow land is broken by the darker foliage, while here and there purpling shadows lie dense and close, almost to the brink of the waters that seem to catch every gleam of the sunlight pouring down from joyous heaven.

"Green Hollow" cont...

  Nothing seems to indicate change,yet all is variety and no where can one feel so entirely, wholly and undividedly an humble worshipper of nature as here. Society is always flood tide and every assembly must be ultra-fashionable, and also the drivers of rubber tired buggies, have first choice of the belle and occoasionally cupid cracks his whip.

  It is here neighbors meet to exchange greeting, spend an hour in recreation and divert their minds from ethical meditation and, as Josh Billings would say:

           "Gather round the kitchen fire.
       Pile the chunks on higher and higher.
    Get out the old fiddle and partners choose.
    And shake'er down in your cow hide shoes."