File:New England; a human interest geographical reader (1917) (14764292731).jpg

Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches)
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
d up aroundthe foundation for the sake of warmth. The chimneyswere built on the outside. Some of the floors weresimply of hard-trodden earth, and the rest were made ofplanks roughly hewn out with axes. Probably noneof the houses had more than three or four rooms.Much of the tableware was wooden. Guns, powder-horns, bullet-pouches, and swords hung on the walls.The people now possessed many swine and poultry,a number of goats, and at least two dogs. For food they depended in part on what they raised,and in part on the clams they got from the shore, thefish they caught in the sea, and the wild creatures theyshot. When famine threatened in winter they duggroundnuts. In 1623 they were in much distress of mind over adrought that began the third week of May. Theweather was almost continuously hot, and when themiddle of July arrived without rain the corn began to Plymouth and the Pilgrims 57 wither. A day was set apart to pray for relief. Itopened as clear and hot as usual, but toward evening
Text Appearing After Image:
One of the old Plymouth streets the sky began to be overcast, and soon such sweet andgentle showers fell as caused the Pilgrims to rejoiceand bless God. That was the first New EnglandThanksgiving. Plymouth long ago ceased to be a wilderness village,or even a rustic town. It is now a place of about tenthousand people, but it still retains an attractivesavor of the olden times. Considerable manufactur-ing is carried on there, and it is a favorite summerresort. Something like fifty thousand people visit itevery year. One of the most interesting spots in the place is 58 New England Burial Hill. Here are the earliest marked graves.The oldest is that of a merchant who died in 1681.There are a number of very curious epitaphs. Thefollowing one refers to a Plymouth boy who died beforehe reached the age of two years: Heaven knows what a man he might haveMADE. But we know he died a most rare boy. Another inscription is this: Here lies InterredThe Body of Mrs. Sarah Spooner who deceasedJanuary ye

Note About Images