Volume 10 , Issue 16

Spring Fever! What is it?

Has Spring Fever hit you? What exactly is Spring Fever? How does Spring Fever come upon you this time of year?

There is no excuse for this newsletter being late ... other than "Spring Fever" has set in around these parts. Lately, since Spring has sprung amongst us, I get this urge of laziness. Only wanting to escape to the sunny, warm, spring-like temperatures outdoors -- planting my garden and seeing what I can grow.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is noted for the following quote about Spring Fever. Does this quote of Twain's ring true with your feelings about Spring: "It's Spring Fever. That is what the name of it is and when you've got it, you want ... oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" -- Mark Twain

Also... Mark Twain wrote a poem which made the phrase, "Spring Fever," popular. Has anyone out there come across that poem? I have been searching the internet for it with no luck so far. Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places. I am not quite sure what the title of the poem is, but assuming it is "Spring Fever."

Wikipedia has this interesting history of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Clemens was born November 30, 1835, died April 21, 1910. He was better known by the pen name Mark Twain, but he had other pen names before settling on Mark Twain. Twain was an american humorist, satirest, lecturer and writer, noted for his novels of Huckleberry Finn (Greatest American Novel) and Tom Sawyer's adventures. Here is the Official website of Mark Twain.
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