Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-12-13

dividual is from Dixie, but later there
must be some tie that binds, or he is
no more to you than a Yankee. 1t is
not that one loses a love for his ma
tive heath, but that one requires a
personal interest, and mutual con-
geniality for friendship.
/ went next to the Museum Mem
orial Hall, and found it locked,
though the card on the outside dis
ltinctly stated that the building was
open till five o'clock.
/ often do things iby halves and
this time neglected to read another
card which directed me to a caretaker
in The Red Cottage. Now where that
was I knew not, and since ! have
known my conception Of red to differ
greatly from other peoples, looked
Isometime before discovered a small
structure near the museum. knock
ed with the old fashioned knocker,
and there stood before me New
England spinster. They are like no
others in the world. When I get to be
an old maid / am coming back down
South to live. They are lovely there.
In the South one grows old graceful
ly. This individual looked at me, as
though on some cold morning she had
sternly frowned and her frown had
frozen. But she would open
the museum for me, and Iarather
wondered if there is any blessing Of
fered for those who are prosecuted
for learning's sake, as there is for
those who are prosecuted for the
sake of righteousness. She opened
the door, and took her seat immedi-
ately inside it. I waited for her to
follow me about, and in sWeetly
soothing tones tell me Of the Bloody
Brook" massacre, as / was ,accus-
toned to have people tell me of in
teresting incidents. She reminded
seated however, and I had to depend
on my own intelligence to explain
things when ] had much rather have
depended upon hers.
The building was locked because Of.
ssIa l + a1pen l.ss. lss
like revelafion, foTI tfia Sass vas SSh8
the Pilgrim Fathers were always so
stern and severe. The Pilgrim Fathers
were always cold, poor things, and
couldn't use up spare energy in
smiling. Someone has said that the
Pilgrim Fathers get all the sympathy,
but that it was the Pilgrim Mothers
who deserved the credit. They had to
put up with the cold and privation,
but what is infinitely worse, the Pill
grim Fathers as we'll.
I should think that to these shiver-
ing people the fire and birthstone of
which they preached, as punish
ment in the after life, should have
lost much of it's terror.
Their only heating facilities were
cavernous fire places that insured
their being well roasted on one side
and cold on the other. suppose the
family lived in front of these open
ovens and revolved in succession.
The other places of interest were
two old houses known as the Hitch
cock House and the Williams House.
The latter had been the home of one
Rev. John Williams, long ago pastor
of the town church I spoke of. He
left Old Deerfeld and went to the
French and Indian wars, and in his
absence his congregation built this
home for him. At present it is one of
the dormitories in the Deerfeld Aca-
denny, an exclusive boys preparatory
school. The old place had been en-
tirely renovated. The front door,
however, was still intact, and this
particular doorway is the oldest or
namental one in this country. Two
crosses were carved at the bottom
to keep away the witches. l should
think the people would have had ex-
citement enough in keeping the In
dians away without conjuring up inn
aginary woes and accusing their next
door neighbors of being in league
with Satan in order to prove their
theory of witchcraft.
In this same house was secret
stairway leading from the first floor,
a. boou+;fu111, f,rnichod cI1ifo to +he