BtZ42 pages 116-121

[Mike Jing]

>  I didn’t recall the scene of TS’s ancestor driving a pig.  Reference anyone?

Here's the relevant passage:

V555.2-12   The ramparts of the Berkshires stopped everybody else at
the time, but not William. He just started climbing. He was one of the
very first Europeans in. After they settled in Berkshire, he and his
son John got a pig operation going—used to drive hogs right back down
the great escarpment, back over the long pike to Boston, drive them
just like sheep or cows. By the time they got to market those hogs
were so skinny it was hardly worth it, but William wasn’t really in it
so much for the money as just for the trip itself. He enjoyed the
road, the mobility, the chance encounters of the day—Indians,
trappers, wenches, hill people—and most of all just being with those
pigs. They were good company.
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