For David Giannini
Before snow on your grave,
your life work was on the market.
Yankee thrift, the force that drives
your generations.
Your spirit called in a chit, so
your friends bought the place –
Lock, stock, and barrell,
Ox Cart and Glenwood stove.
Your chapter cycles seasons amid
the dead calm of Mt. Kearsarge.
– Dave Read
Donald Hall’s Ox Cart
The first people in line at Donald Hall’s estate sale in Wilmot waited about fifteen hours overnight to get in the door. (Britta Greene, New Hampshire Public Radio)