Special to the Enterprise
A few months ago, I received a book as a gift from a friend in Vermont. The jacket was inscribed to me, “My Dear Christian,” and after a few comments concluded, “… and that it will entice you back to these verdant shores. Signed, Nessmuk.” This is mysterious. Nessmuk, as some may know, was the pen name of George Washington Sears, a late-19th-century tourism writer for the outdoor magazine Forest & Stream. He was born almost 200 years ago, in 1821, and died in 1890, making his signature unlikely on this new (copyright 1993) copy of “Canoeing the Adirondacks with Nessmuk: The Adirondack Letters of George Washington Sears.”