Aiken Winter Colony

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or colony:

    “So near to paradise all pairing ends:
    Here loveless birds now flock as winter friends,
    Content with bud-inspecting. They presume
    To say which buds are leaf and which are bloom.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    ““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)