...er show now in their native greenness, now white with snow, now green with mist. About his friend, Levi Thaxter, Higginson wrote his mother: Levi popped in, on his way to the Shoals. He and Mr. Leighton have bought the most beautiful of the islands; are going to bring it under cultivation, have a boarding-house for invalids and aesthetic visitors, and do something to civilize the inhabitants of the ...