Tender the River: Poems Ghosts a teenager meets the boy

a teenager meets the boy of his dreams dressed in vintage clothing

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bears and komonos

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Tender the River: Poems Ghosts a teenager meets the boyTender the River captures in verse the history and legacy of the Merrimack River Valley, from the Pennacook, Wamesit, Algonquin, and other indigenous tribes who settled there first, to the European settlers who came with guns and their god to supplant them, to being the birthplace of America's industrial revolution and first labor movements, to becoming a center of continued immigration, of entrenched nativism, and even multicultural celebration. The