The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-08-11
LETTER FROM MR.. TAYLOR
NV Dear Citizen Friends:

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Island, in the middle Of the great st.
Lawrence River-the wind is blowing
a swift gale, but who would know it
here, protected as I am by this great
rock barrier.
The beautiful river, nine miles
wide at this point, flows swiftly be-
low me, so wide, in fact, that the
waves and white caps today make
one think of the old Mothsk OceAp.
Craft of every kind may be seen,
mostly on pleasure bent. Great pri-
vate yachts equipped with every
home comfort down to tiny little
canoes. Naptha launches have al.
most entirely taken the place Of
sail boats, just as autos in Berea
have taken the place of horses and
mules. From this point one can
plainly see why this section of the
St. Lawrence is named Thousand Is.
land Park, many Of the islands,
(1S00 in all) just large enough for
a house and yard, perhaps 100 feet
IN diameter and covered with beau
tiful trees and shrubbery. At night
time the effect is silently thrilling
DR.. and Mrs. Cowley met us here
last Saturday evening and together
W. are having one glorious vacation.
It is very cool here, and this morn
ing in spite of the high wind, Doc
tor and I started in a little sail boat
over to a distant inlet for pond lilies.
We had thrilling ride, but Doctor
is a good sailor, having been born
and brought up in a sail boat. We
both were drenched to the skin and
had a hard time to keep the boat
from capsizing. We however reached
the inlet, gathered a great bundle
Of beautiful waxy lilies and made
the Island safely again, moist and
hungry, but iubilant. Ours is one
of the larger islands, with a popula.
ton of several hundred, has two good
hotels, and the CHEEKY faced girls
who serve us in the dining.room
make us think of our own Boone Tav.
ern service. Tonight there is a
"corn roasting" on an island way up
the river, and tomorrow we fish and
sail again. The life here is quite a
contrast, assure you, to the busy
Office at Berea, with its constantly
ringing telephones, its busy dicta.
phone and buster associates. This
morning Mrs. Taylor met one Of the
fine men from Albany, N. Y, who
helps to make Berea College possi-
BILE thru generous donations. She
was glad to tell how carefully we
tried to conserve the money intrust-
ed to our care.
Just as I write this, a fine faced
country lad comes climbing over the
rocks, asking me il I had seen his
cows "chasin' round this way.
tell him no." but the conversation
is begun and a fine talk we had to-
gether. He has So cows in his herd,
uses a Sharpless patent mixer like
we used formerly in, our dairy there
at Berea. He supplies most of the
milk which is used on the Island. He
is 20 years of age and has not been
to school since he was Ia. He was
wonderfully interested in my story
of Berea, but said he feared no such
good luck was in store for him at
this age.
We have had a truly wonderful
trip since leaving Berea, going first
to Philadelphia, where we met many
who are interested in our school and
who are planning to help us in our
great financial campaign this fall.
met many boyhood friends, now
grown into prosperous business men,
A group of us motored out one day
to Valley Forge, now a national
park, and lived over again the awful
events of the terrible winter Wash
ington and his men spent there.
Lonely graves are dotted here and
there, and as ! passed them ! barred
my head in grateful appreciation of
their heroic service. Later, we went
to Caldwell, in Northern New Jer-
sey, to visit my brother, whose bust
ness is in New York City and whom
have not seen for several years.
The roads here are al, like boule-
wards, and we took many beautiful
drives thru the mountain sections
ever thru West Point, our nations
greatest military school, thru Bear
Mountain below the Catskills, down
thru Sleepy Hollow section, then to
Peekskill, where one time lived Chaun'
cey Depew, Richard Harding Davis,
Irving Cobb and other men Of note
Our whole trip has been one Of in
spiration and delight, and all along
the line we have met such uniform
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