Artemis, The Honest Well Digger

Artemis, the Honest Well DiggerArtemis Loved the healing sound of rain--the sound of all running water--brooks, gutters, spouts, falls and taps. In the spring he would drive 100 miles to hear the cataract at the Wakusha Reservoir. This was not so surprising, since he was a well driller and water was his profession, his livelihood as well as his passion. Water, he thought, was at the root of civilizations. He had seen photographs of a city in Umbria that had been abandoned when the wells went dry...