Excerpt from Old Seaport Towns of the South<br><br>But it wasn't until we were caught in the pie-shaped wedge of travellers at the ticket gate that We realised how irrevocable our going away was. And then we had a chilling sensa tion of exile, as if we were leaving all the things we liked best - friends, fun, work, New York and were not going to find anything to take their place. That is the worst of being a New Yorker; like a breathless joy-rider in a scenic railway car, you shut your eyes and shriek, Oh, isn't it fun! There's nothing like it in the world! Forgetting that beyond the wall of glittering towers, across the moat of rivers, there are cities and people, great activities and amaz ing beauty. Not only the ashes of cities and people, but the living heart of them, the rest of America.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.