"Sing your own song, said the river,
"Sing your own song.
"Out of yesterday song comes.
It goes into tomorrow,
Sing your own song.
"With your life fashion beauty,
This too is the song.
Riches will pass and power. Beauty remains.
Sing your own song."
"All that is worth doing, do well, said the river.
Sing your own song.
Certain and round be the measure,
Every line be graceful and true.
Time is the mold, time the weaver, the carver,
Time and the workman together,
Sing your own song.
Sing well, said the river. Sing well."
The Blue Cat of Castle Town was born under a blue moon around this spot in the early 1830's. Blue kittens are able to hear the river's song and upon finding a hearth the kitten must share the song. The kitten shared the river's song with the inhabitants of Castle Town. The river that sang to the kitten, the Castleton River, runs below this bridge and weaves throughout the town as we know it today. Many of the structures you see in Castleton Village today are also noted in the novel.
The children's novel The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Cate Coblentz is public domain and can be read online here
A map from the inside cover of The Blue Cat of Castle Town by Catherine Cate Coblentz
GRATS to Tcong for FTF on New Year's Day 2023!