Sorry if that was unclear. The dance instructor was the occupier of the
site, not William Sydney Mount, the painter, whose work has appeared on
State monies (before the Civil War, many states printed their own money,
and the arts of some were created by William Sydney Mount acknowledged, I
suppose. I sometimes imagine him in his painting wagon from which he
painted and Walt Whitman stopping by on the road, which of course is
speculation, though geographically possible, Whitman in Huntington, NY and
Mount in Stony Brook, both along the North Country Road, the first road,
the South Country Road the second, and the Middle last, a vertible jungle
roads literally by those who could not pay their taxes. Whiskey Road said
appears as it does as a jug was set from stump to stump.