Lake Pontchartrain (Images of America)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), “At this time in our story, the whole St. Clare establishment is, for the time being, removed to their villa on Lake Pontchartrain….to seek the shores of the lake, and its cool sea-breezes...St. Clare's villa was an East Indian cottage, surrounded by light verandahs of bamboo-work, and opening on all sides into gardens and pleasure-grounds…where winding paths ran down to the very shores of the lake, whose silvery sheet of water lay there, rising and falling in the sunbeams,--a picture never for an hour the same, yet every hour more beautiful…It is now one of those intensely golden sunsets which kindles the whole horizon into one blaze of glory, and makes the water another sky. The lake lay in rosy or golden streaks, save where white-winged vessels glided hither and thither, like so many spirits, and little golden stars twinkled through the glow, and looked down at themselves as they trembled in the water.”

    

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Back to the Bayou
Lighthouses
Literature
Jazz
Change
War and Peaceful Pursuits
Life on the Lake
Photo Gallery
Acknowledgments
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