The White Gate Author:Mary Ellen Chase Mary Ellen Chase has never written a more appealing or more true book that this. The white gate around which she centers its chapters is the symbol to a child of all which life holds o fexcitement and wonder. Within the gate are its certainties: an old house in Maine, a country family, a great, warm kitchen with re geraniums in its windows; bo... more »oks; a flock of pigeonsin the barn loft. Without the gate is a world of wonder and surprise; strangers on the country road, boats in the harbor; upland pastures; neighbors and odd relatives; Maine weather half a centuray ago and its gifts. Here is life as it is suddenly or slowly revealed to a child; here are captured and recorded those impressions, those meanings within human experience, which, once even dimly understood in childhood, make the mature imagination rich and rewarding.« less