Of the Mt. Harmon Dairies of Sidney George Fisher, 1837 – 1850, W. Emerson Wilson wrote “he is such a faithful recorder of the times and the people and scenes he lived through.” “Mt. Harmon, over the years, became his obsession. It cast a spell upon him that was to last a lifetime….He was at his best there, loving the soil, the plantings, the rivers, the beauty and the animals.” - From the foreword by W. Emerson Wilson. Excerpts from the Mount Harmon Diaries October 25 - 27, 1838. “Nature is always beautiful & interesting whether smiling with the verdure of spring, rejoicing in the rich maturity of summer, decked in the many colored & glowing robes of autumn or cold & naked in the rugged desolation of winter.” “The landscape is in all the glory of autumn & the woods are gorgeous in scarlet, yellow, orange, brown & green…. "Very cloudy with an east wind in the morning, but about 9 o’clock the wind got round to the northwest and some symptoms appeared of clearing up. After breakfast mounted Reynard and galloped to Formans (Rose Hill)". "Walked thro the woods till after 5 taking care to get home to enjoy a magnificent sunset, which here at this season is worth seeing as the glorious luminary goes down just behind the lake, like a sheet of water, formed by a bend in the river in front of the house". "The more I see of the country elsewhere the more I admire and appreciate the beauties of this region, and the shores of the Sassafras afford situations and views which I never surpassed. Came in to tea and after that to the enjoyment of books, cigars, scribbling, musing, solitude & liberty".
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