Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-29
UNITY CLUB.
Program Now Arranged for the 18th
and 29th Seasons.

| Club has arranged the following program
for the 2Sth and Goth years of the clubs
existence. The general subject for the
next two winters will be Early -Ameri-
can History and Letters" Below is the
program in full: d.
| PART I-190S-19O9
| CThe principal papers are limited to 40
| minutes. the shorter to % minuteS.i-
Early New England Coast vuyagers.
Noruinbega and Acadia
| Readings from Rosters description of
| kenhebec region or DePeyster's Dutch
in Maine"
Whittier's "Norumbega.'
jamestown and Plymouth.
| The Tale of Acadie; Banishment of the
French.
Reading from ''Evangeline."
| Colonial MISUNDERSTANDING, Winslow.
Thatcher, and Morton of Merlymount
| and their stories.
Roger Williams the Liberal Puritan.
Ann Hutchinson and her Partzans.
Gov. winthrop, his 81 DIARY" and Ills
| tory
The Early Preachers,-Hooker, the Math-
erS. Edwards, and their Power.
Reading, Whittier's ''Banished from Mas
SachuSetts."
V.
The Witchcraft Delusion and its Victims
Cotton Mather and the Goodwin Witches
| Readings from New England Tragedies,
and Giles Corey of the Salem Farnls,.
icy Longf4low, and THE Witch Of Wen
ham, ty,Whittier.
Maine thes Mother State; How Massa-
| chusetts took control.
! Maine in the Colonial and Revolutionary
Wars.
Reading. "The Dead Ship of Harpswel
a New England Legend by Whittier
Chief Justice sewall and his Diary.
Ann Eradstreet, the Tenth Muse.
| Reading from "Contempla;ions."
VIII
Southern Colonial Writers, William Byrd
Robert Beverly, Hugh Jones; William
and Mary College.
| Michael Wigglesworth and his Poetry.
Readings from 1.-The Day of DOOM"
BENJAMIN Franklin. Sketch; Readings
from "fntobograaphy," and Poor Rich
Madame Sarah Knight; Account of Her
York.
Rea ling.
Thomas Paine, Sketch; His Help in
Founding independence.
The Hopkinsons; Father and Son, Battle
of the Kegs" and Hail Columbia"
Ezra Stiles, Dr. Holmes Ancestor
Magazines.
Joel Barlow, Sketch, and Readings from
"fastv Pudding.
Phiilis Wheatley, and her Poems.
The Hartford Writers-Trumbull. Dwight,
Hopkins and Humphreys. Reading from
"Mcl'arigal."
The Revolutionary Torches-the Adamses
Henry and Otis.
Origin of the Flag; Reading 1.-The Ameri-
can Flag" by Drake.
PART II.
1GG9-19l0
Joseph Rodman Drake; Sketch. with
Rea,lins. The Culprit Fay
T'itz Greene Helleck; Sketch, with Read
ing, Marco BOZarriS,' or the Poem on
Burns.
Early Maine Authors-John Neal, rren-
tss Mellen. n. =. Willis
Reading, THE Belfry Pigeon
Wilson and Audubon and their Bird
Books.
James Fcnnimore Cooper. 'rhe Spy" and
other Leather Stocking Tales"
Washington Alston and John Pierpont:
Reading. 1.-THE Pilgrim Fathers"
William Austin; His adventures of Peter
Rugg.'
Washington Irving, rs our first Writer of
Humor: Readings from ..Knckerbocl-
e.s History of New York"
Peter Farley. and his Books.
Reading from Charles Sprague's "Centen
NAL Ode" g!
v
Lydia Huntley Sigourney: Sketch, Read
in.s from her Poems.
Catherine Sedgwick Synopsis of Hope
Leslie"
Hannah Could: Her "Recollections of a
New England HOuSekeeper" ~
George P. Norris and Edward c. Pncls-
ney; Sketches: with Readings. Wood
man; man. Spare That Tree" by Morris, "A
| Charles Fenno Hoffman; Sketch: Reading
"Rosale Glare
William Gilmore smms; Sketch; Reading
from atlantis"
William Cullen Bryant; Sketch, with
| Readings.
Fanny. Fern. Grace Greenwood. and their
Writings
Reading. The Coral Grove" by Percival
Rrook-farm. and its Farmers.
Margaret RULER Ossoi.
Readings.
| Antl-Slavcly Poetry of Whittier, Longfel-
low and Lowell.
Rsa ;Mn W, 1.-THE Pine Tree" by Whitsr
| Present Crisis" by Lowell
X.
Edgar Alien Poe: Sketch: Readings ITO
| Helen" "Annabel Lee"
| ''llncle Toms Cabin" It's photography
| Readings frcm it. iif
John +. Kennedy: Sketch: Analysis of
"Horse-shoe Robinson"
| James X. Spaulding. Readings from
| 'Salmagund."
Songs and Song-Writers of the Civil War
| Northern and Southern.
| Reading, Jonathan to John" Lowell
| The membership of Unity Club is be-
| tween 40 and 80 and the officers for the
| present year are follows: President
Judge Oliver G. Hail. vice president, John
Clair Minot secretary and trea surer, Mrs
| Lucius Hill: executive committee, Mrs
| II. W. True. Miss Helen w. Fuller, Mrs
| Charles II. Mason. Mrs. G. H. Brickett
! Mrs. Annie Fl. Farnham, Miss Hattie
| Nose Hall. Miss Alice S. Reynolds and
| Miss Maud S. Andrews. The EXPIRE sidents
| of the club are Judge w. P. Whitehouse
Gen. Selden Connor and Prof. j. H. Par
sons.
The first meeting of the 18th season will
be held at the Court house Monday even