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Identifier: tarryathometrav00hale (find matches)
Title: Tarry at home travels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New York (State) -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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number. They have great pride in their lo-cality. No one can do them more good than bynursing this pride and trying to make it eternal.Go to Westboro, and they will tell you thatEli Whitney was born here, who revolutionizedthe industries of America. Go to Northampton,where they will tell you that Jonathan Edwardspreached there, and will or will not tell you thatthey turned him out. Just now twelve hundredyoung women make their home at Smith Col-lege there. Go to Springfield, and you will hearthat Springfield is the place where our NationalGovernment revolutionized for the world the busi-ness of the manufacture of small arms. Go toQuincy, and, besides the railway referred to above,they will show you the birthplace of John Adams,who practically wrote the constitutions of al-most all the old Thirteen States. His homewas called Braintree then. Go to Amesbury;it was Whittiers home. Go down the river toByfield, and here was the first woollen manufac-tory in America. Go to Cambridge, and you
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153 MASSACHUSETTS 155 see the statue of the first printer. Go toWiUiamstown, and here was Mark Hopkinssslab throne, as Garfield described it, and herewas a celebrated haycock. Go to Easton; theywill tell you that their axes are in the hands ofmen blacker than any you ever saw, under theequator in Africa. Go to Nantucket, and theysay that Burke was talking about them when hetold the House of Commons whom he envied.Go to Sheffield, and they say Orville Deweywas born here. Go to Pittsfield, and they sayHenry Dawes lived here. Go to Sturbridge,and they say here was the first mine wroughtin the United States, which has been kept inoperation until now. Go to Gloucester, and theysay Massachusetts pays for all her breadstuffswith the fish she draws out of the sea. Plymouth,Concord, Lexington, Bunker Hill — ^Ir. Webstersays the world knows the history by heart. Goto Worcester, and they will tell you where SenatorHoar lived. Go to Wrentham, Helen Kellerlives there. Go to Natick, or Xewton, an

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