Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-21
AFTERNOON WITH LOCAL POETS
AT PARK CHURCH PARISH HOUSE

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AT PARK CHURCH PARISH HOUSE
At general business and Parish
House meeting of the Women's Fedora
| ton of Park Congregational church, held
i Friday at 8 O'clock in the Osgood Mem
/ orial Parish House. the president Mrs.
Henry T. Arnold, presided. Reports |
were read by the secretary, Mrs. Charles
S. Gardner and the treasurer, Mrs. Ray
nond B. Sherman. Then Mrs. Arnold |
turned the. meeting over to the Parish |
House department and Mrs. Albert NJ |
Van Wagenen took the chair. The TO
port of the secretary, Mrs. John s.
Blackmar was read. and approved.
Mrs. Van Wagenen then placed the
meeting in the. charge Of Miss Louise C.
Howe, who had arranged IAN Afternoon
With Our Local Poets Miss Howe
spoke in an interesting way, directing
attention to the literary achievements
of Norwich which city can claim many
distinguished writers in prose and verse
She read most informing sketch OF
J Mrs. Lydia Huntley Sgourney. whose
. girlhood home was the present Gilman
residence on Washington street. Mrs S.
2 H. Howe then, read several of the poems
| of this famed writer, including Evening
8 At Home" Solitude" and Thoughts"
2 Referring to the local people of liter
. airy note yet not poets Miss Howe cited
. Donald G. Mitchell Elk Maxwell who was
y born in a house on the site of the pres
! emit residence of Principal Henry A. Tir-
/ rell this house was later moved to the
Falls bridge and is now a tenement
house. Mitchell wrote the greater portion
} of his Reveres of Bachelor in what is
now known as the residence Of Mrs.
U Frank A. Robinson, on Sachem street.
Harry Harlan6, of Sentry Hill, was
next considered by Miss Howe. She then
read from Miss Margaret Fuller's book,
IS A New England Childhood, description
If of Norwich Town written by Edmund
st Clarence Stedman-a most Interesting
n narratice. Mrs. Robert w. Perkins read
&c Stedman's 1.-THE Inland City" "The Hand
-, of Lincoln" and THE Ladies Hunting
~ ton"-descriptive of the four sisters who
10 lived in the present home of Mrs. Will
of lam H. Fitch.
Miss Margaret Fuller next gave pleas
~ ure by reading her own charming poems
of ITO Molly" "Dionysius," "Valediction,
- ard ITO Little Soldier of France"
- Miss Howe referred to Witter Byn
>. ner, who, when a boy lived on Washing
-. ton street and who has recently Hisite
- his uncle, Arthur H. Brewer. Mr.. Byn
10 ner's poems were tha1 read by his cous
~ in, Mrs. William A. Norton, who spok
~ also of his successful plays. notably
- one-act play, Tiger" Mrs. Norton rea
his Toward the Great Peace" writer
m it was explained. to Christopher Thurbel
w a boyhood playmate of Mr.. Bynner an
~ describing the residence of the poet
aunt, Miss Louisa J. Brewer, the gar
IN den, river, etc. Several selections wer
,IS given from his latest volume, 9TH
w. Greensboro Poems" her choice bein
~ Journey" THE Calendar" and "Ar
he nunciation," sung by the voices of TIL
a. unborn, also "Oh, Take Me Up to Grer
ea stone"
e1- Miss Alice W. Coggswell was hear
10, next in two finished poems by John Trc
land, Manhood" and Natures Noble
~ man." which afforded pleasure ard II
az terest to her hearehs.
e: Miss Maize V Caruthers was Gale
III, upon by Miss Howe to read from he
ev own poems, giving Jazz" the pathet
nj, "Reveries of a Ghost" MY Family
N and "Vagnbondia," all being most cor
on daily received. Mrs. Leonard o. smit
F then read two beautiful poems by Y
Ia Tyler olcott, Sunset and The Soul
i'd Prayer"
m Mrs. Smith also read two poems /
~ Miss Ella A flaming, "Homewal
Bound" and IAN April Protest"
Mrs. William B. Birge, the next reat
er. gave poems by her step daughte
$50 Mrs. Pauline Brewer. choosing. first fro
49,, Poems from Nature. ''Primeval" ne
I-:1 from Poems of Love, The Lost Hour
vi and again from Poems of Nature, 10,
u and Spirit ITO My Little Son." each de
o o,n icate in fancy and treatment Mi
an Hattah NJ. Crowell gave special plea
- pre- with poems by Winifred Well.
nv from The Hesitant Heart-"At School
60 Gesture" "Drifted." and "One Boy
.t Miss Amanda B. Hall won great fav
~ with her own prize poem. THE Dane
nv in TIE Shrine" also giving Mary
~. and Peter Grim"
rote Mrs. Roy Keller delighter her heart
49, hv singing Alone In Loves Gard
roh (Hewitt Loves In My Heart (Woodma1
~ The Star (Rogers). giving when insi
80 emily encored, For He Loved Her
Rusk. Her accomplishments were M
the symnathetically played by Mrs Char
~ A. Saxton.
Bosa Following the FORMAL program tea '
Hi. served by a committee including n
,,sn William A Weeden. chairman Miss c
I'D F. Fletcher, Mrs. Howard BENJAMIN ;
ist . Miss Hattie Holt Mrs William
3i,,r. Fletcher and Mr. Iohn Lenox were
s{na the table. which N'l the room and Y
BIms dow seats, had hee- daintily decora
- by Hawkins, the florist
W. During the business meeting It was
.;sb nounced that Wallace Nutting was
,r1i1v lecture before the federation dul
)!sco, MA 0ii