Lassie's Home

Home ... where I always returned ... after constant travel. 20 Acres of trees, now sick with climate change ...& a 300 year old log cabin: SplinterCottage- that can't be fixed with pocket change. &cats who like collies always come home. Its Pennsylvania's Bucks County ... known for its Arts community who played the markets of New York City and Philadelphia off each other. Up Winding Road, down Ghost Mountain, is Spring House Lane. Where Eric & Jere Knight made their home. Here Eric Knight wrote "Lassie, Come Home" & they lived with Toots the prototype Lassie ... Toots named after Eric's teasing Nickname for Jere if she became too proper.... Jere , a seemingly stern & intimidating chronic "over-achiever" ... graduate of Penn & the Sorbonne, later in Hollywood (then NYC) story editor for Selznick International , writer for Saturday Evening Post (Phila), & later: Major Jere Knight aide to the head of the WACs in London (WW2), executrix of e e cummings estate, named on a Pulitzer on a history work while at Lehigh University, & Quaker Peace Activist. Both Knights were birthright Quakers, Eric from Wales, Jere , Quaker Phila. The Farm was purchased a bit before Eric's LASSIE COME HOME & THIS ABOVE ALL best selling novels became Academy Award winning Movies. Spring House an act of faith & great love between the two. As fascism rose in Europe both entered service. Jere returned alone. To spend the rest of her life. Spring House - evidence of that place & time.