Pig Snout is often compared to the Philosophers Camp that’s chronicled by the Emerson poem “The Adirondacs” and depicted by the Stillman painting “The Philosophers’ Camp in the Adirondacks”.
“In the summer of 1858 an expedition of ten scholarly men from Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts embarked on a trip to Follensby Pond in the Adirondacks, creating what came to be known as the Philosophers’ Camp at the shore of the pond…”
Background on the expedition can be found at an exhibit at the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem “The Adirondacs“
William James Stillman’s painting “The Philosophers’ Camp in the Adirondacks“.
Coincidentally, the painting currently hangs in the Concord Free Public Library, about 15 miles from my house.
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