East Branch

East Branch is the name of several places in the United States:

  • East Branch (Massachusetts), a river in the town of Westport, Massachusetts
  • East Branch, New York
  • East Branch, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
  • East Branch, Warren County, Pennsylvania

Famous quotes containing the words east and/or branch:

    “At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “What can the dove of Jesus give
    You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
    The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)