Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-05-19
A Trip Through New England.
(Part One)


Having written you about my first
impressions of New England as /
journeyed through Connecticut, and
Rhode Island up to Boston, and in
another letter some things which I
thought interesting about that very
charming city to which my heart
|shall ever turn as l think of the ten
days spent there, I must say a few
things about the beautiful little city
of Plymouth, Mass, where we stood
for the first time in celebration of
the 3OOth anniversary Of the landing
Fof the Pilgrims in 1920.
T There was much to, remind one of
the past in this beautiful spot. We
had thought perhaps it was a desert
ed village, with but few fishermen
and ancient landmarks, but it is an
tenterprising place with street cars
running to Boston, about twenty-five
;or more miles distant and public
spirit enough to keep the environ
ment charged with historic associa-
tions. The name of the hotel, "The
Plymouth Rock House,'' overlooking
the water, most picturesquely situat-
ed just above the rock; the "May-
flower Inn," where we took dinner,
and in front of the modern Post
Office a monument covering the
spring from which the Pilgrims must
have drank their first draught of
American water. The water is obtain
able now by drinking frbm a faucet
in the monument.
aThe Pilgrim House" is a remark
able museum containing I believe,
many true relics of early New Eng
land. The little bonnets of Peregrine
White, the first baby in New Eng
land, born on the Mayfower on her
passage over. Many of the articles
m the Museum were presented by
descendants, some of them living in
Plymouth today. The Congress of the
sUnited States has made a large ap-:
Preparation E, aid in having a great
Three Cent?. Celebration there this
fall.
In the =, hich is on a>hill,
the design 'stically carried
out, lie the reinall.. of all the early
settlers, except a very few whose
graves can not be seen. These died
and were buried and the Indian corn
planted over them, that the Indians
might not discover how many had
passed away. From this cemetery
there is a most wonderful view of
the great blue ocean washing right
up to the Plymouth town. Some of
the graves are very old and carved
out of slate, and are something like
this: "Mary Wait we wife of Return
Wait, died ye 21st of September in
we year of our Lord 1900" Many of
the names were verbs instead of
names, such as Increase Gatchell,"
whose pew we saw in old North
Church and Resolved 'and Gre
member" A sermon preached by one
of the early Pilgrims on the death of
a daughter in the family was exhibit
ed in the "Pilgrim House." In this
the family were told that it was
brought upon them because they
needed the affliction, and if they did
not know why now, they would find
out hereafter.
On Sunday afternoon before leav-
ing Boston Mr.. Titus, a brother of
our cousins in Littleton. New Hamp-
shire, came with his wife and daugh-
ter in their car from their home in
Lynn, Mass, and offered US our,
choice of any direction we might like
to take for an afternoon in New
England. The sun had shone in the
morning, hail had fallen up to one
o'clock and there was light rain
at the hour appointed, but we went
and found no inconvenience in the
spacious and comfortable car.
I was interested in seeing Welles-
ley College and Miss Titus who ac-
companied US having graduated there
was pleased to take us through the
most interesting building and point
out many things which we could not
otherwise have known. So large and
extensive are the grounds that it
would take days to see everything OF
interest. In the parlors there was the