ME ♪ ♪ FRIT THESE WERE IN MY GRANDFATHER’S LIBRARY, THREE VOLUMES OF THE WORK OF RUDYARD KIPLING. GRANDFATHER PUT HIS NAME IN THEM. HE WROTE IT IN THERE. IT SAYS FRED WETHERBEE, 1908. I’M NAMED FOR MY GRANDFATHER. 1909, EVERYONE IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WOR KNEW KIPLING. HIS PROSE AND POETR EASY-TO-READ, EXCITING TO READ. I ONCE PUT "GUNG DIN" TO MEMORY. AND IN HIGH SCHOOL, WE SANG -- ♪ ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY HEY ♪ ♪ ANOTHER KIPLI POEM, SONG FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH TESTOSTERONE, A MEN’S CHORUS. THESE BOOKS MY GRANDFATHER OWNED WERE NOT FOR SHOW. THEY HAVE BEEN READ A NUMBER OF TIMES. THEY’VE HAD SOME USE. IN NEW ENGLAND, THERE WAS EVEN MORE EXCITEMENT OVER RUDYARD KIPLING THAN IN OTHER PLACES. THAT WAS BECAUSE FOR FOR YEARS, -- FOR FOUR YEARS, THE GREAT AUTHOR LIVED IN A HOUSE NAMED -- KIPLING WAS IN VERMONT BECAUSE HE MARRIED A VERMONT GIRL. HE ALSO HAD CO-WRITTEN A NOVEL WITH HER BROTHER, WALCOTT. THAT BOOK WAS ENTITLED -- IT WAS OF COURSE WHAT HE NAMED HIS HOUSE. WALCOTT DIED YOUNG. KIPLING GRIEVED FOR HIM. HIS AFFECTION FOR HIS WIFE’S BROTHER WAS THE IMPETUS FOR HIS MOVED TO VERMONT. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THIS, BUT IN VERMONT, HE DID SOME OF HIS BEST WORK, INCLUDING "CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS." ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? "THE JUNGLE BOOK" WAS WRITTEN IN VERMONT. PEOPLE LOVE THESE BOOKS. HERE ON NEWFOUND LAKE IN 1903, A SUMMER CAMP WAS CREATED AND CALLED THE MOWGLI SCHOOL OF THE OPEN, MOWGLI BEING THE PROTAGONIST IN "THE JUNGLE BOOK." MRS. HOLT WAS IN TOUCH WITH KIPLING AND HIS WIFE AND SHE GOT PERMISSION TO BORROW NAMES AND THEMES FROM "THE JUNGLE BOOK" FOR HER CAMP. THE KIPLING’S NOT ONLY GAVE PERMISSION, BUT THEY TOOK AN ACTIVE INTEREST IN THE CAMP. IT IS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES. A SECOND PEAK ON CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN IS CALLED MOBLEY MOUNTA