Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-06-21
OLD HOME WEEK AUGUST 11.17.
Gov. Stickney's Proclamation Welcom-
ing Former Residents-1oo Towns
Preparing to Celebrate.

The proclamation of Gov. Stickney
issued from Ludlow, dated June II,
announcing the observance of Old
Home Week in Vermont next August
is being sent out from the headquart-
ers of the Vermont Old Home Week
association in st. Adams by Col.
Charles s. Forbes, secretary. The text
of the proclamation follows:
OLD HOME WEEK.
State of Vermont,
Executive Department.
The first year of the new century
seemed an suspicious time to provide
for a stated homecoming for all the
absent sons and daughters of the
Green Mountain state.
So our last legislature enacted,
THAT the calendar week which iR-
cludes the sixteenth day of August in
each year shall be designated Old
Home Week and set apart as a special
season, during which any town or
group of towns may arrange for APP
propriate celebrations to welcome re-
turning Vermonters and other guests
and for appropriate celebrations to
and for exercises of historic interest"
Many towns have already made ar
rangements for public exercises appro-
pirate for the occasion, and many more
will do so in the near future.
Therefore Old Home Week celebra-
lions will be quite generally observed
throughout the state during the week
beginning on the 18th and ending
on the 18th day of August, 1901, and
it is with great pleasure that l extend
in the name of Vermont, to all her alb
sent sons and daughters wherever
they may be, a most cordial invita-
ton to come home and revisit the
scenes of childhood.
Be assured that your welcome will
be hearty and the freedom of the state
shall be yours.
While the old state is small and
mountainous and rugged, and while
her valleys and meadows are LESS
abundant in production than lands that
lie nearer the sum-" she is still rich in
men and women, both within and with
out her borders, who love her yet and
are proud to claim her for their own.
To all her returning children we
shall be glad to share hospitality and
divide with them something of the
strength of the hills.
For am well persuaded with Elmer.
son that:
IF could put my woods in song,
And tell what's there enjoyed,
All men would to my upland throng
And leave the cities void"
Given at the executive cham
Der, in Ludlow, this seventeenth
day of June, in the year of our
[Seall- Lord, one thousand nine hun
dred and one, and of the indie
pendence of the United States,
the one hundred and twenty
fifth.
WILLIAM w. STICKNEY,
Governor.
A bulletin issued by Secretary
Forbes gives in detail the progress so
far made toward the general observ-
ance of Old Home Week. 1t says in
part:
Vermont Societies Interested.
The governors invitation is extend
ed to 5000 native Vermonters, every
one of whom will be welcome guests
should they revisit Vermont. Fully
one-half of this number reside in the
five other New England states, and in
New York, and are within few hours
born. In the territory named there
exist eight flourishing societies of sons
and daughters of Vermont. AS many
more Vermont societies exist in the
| Western states.
The Vermont association of Boston
Daughters of Vermont will make the
| trip by special train and spend the
week in the state. They are to be the
rufc Of hA nffx TNf i
the local association for a day or two,
and will be handsomely entertained.
| The Brooklyn, Providence, Springfield,
Hartford, Manchester Washington,
and Buffalo societies and other or
CARNATIONS of native Vermonters will
| probably be the guest of local asso-
Citations during Old Home Week.
The official invitation of Governor
Stickney will be mailed to thousands
OF former residents, and the invitations
to be issued by local associations are
| to be sent to many thousand more.
| The $4,000 or more subscribers of Yer
mont newspapers born in this state
and residing in othere states, have
been kept fully advised through the
state press of the facts regarding Old
Home Week. The leading newspa.
pers of Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia, Detroit, Minneapolis, and other
cities have publised extensive illus
trated articles on Old Home Week in
Vermont No event in the history of
Vermont has been so widely advertised
as the coming celebration of Old Home
Week and there promises to be a
larger number of visitors to Vermont
from other parts of the country than
ever before.
Celebrations Scheduled.