Going their own way …

… My failed attempt to unite the Upstate New York literary scene - The Spectator - news, politics, life & arts. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Of Primrose and Candida, Smith wrote, ‘They felt the United States of America was, in a spiritual sense, almost their own property, just as they felt that Geneva almost belonged to them.’ This same proprietary patriotism imbued Walter D. Edmonds and Henry W. Clune, who — like Edmund Wilson — felt their country slipping away from them. The USA just didn’t seem like it was theirs anymore. (A sensation common to millions of Americans today.) 

I saw the movie of version of Drums Along the Mohawk on TV when I was a kid. Loved it.