Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-08
New York
Letter
HALIFAX. Nova Scotia Nor
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notes from a vacation diary.
| am not sure which Is more i'm
portant in this section: E~vangeline
or friendly hospitality. 80. Poor
Evangelinel. .Longfellow's heroine
bumps into you at every corner...
There's Evangeline tobacco, chew
ing gum. candy: E~vangeline hotels,
tours, face powder; Evangeline
pamphlets, paintings. drawings.
posters. 80. Wonder II she looked
like any Of them?....O rather II
her prototype did, Certain she
bears slight resemblance to pno-
tographs of old Acadians n sees
about Museums. And what were
those Longfellow lines I had TO
learn in SCHOOL,. Hare 10 do a
little homework when ! get back
to New York.
And that hospitality. You
couldn't call IL southern or west
err -. It's native, with a rural
warmth one finds on adsldes- f.
No one seems too busy TO help you
find your way around. "A clerk
left his store to show us how to
reach a certain eating place.. A
newspaper editor dropped his work
TO get us started on the right road
into the wilderness.
There's a solid. easygoing quiet
about the way folks do things and
20 about. ~. This Is the town where
thy won't let auto horns toot after
a certain hour at night .... Maybe
the New York noise abatement
commission could get some ideas
I'D herel
Through the fog and most OF
early morning, the landscape looks
like the Brittany coast. Lots OF
Scotch-Irish herea' outs with ac-
cents like those OF the southern hill
people in the states. "A small
boat sputters past the liner. win
a huge tuna on deck. lone OF the
crew lets down a hand-line and
brings up a good-sized mackerel..-
A photograph shows Zane Grey
landing a giant IA. Scores OF
little fishing boats slip through
the harbor. bouncing out TO sea-.
The town is half hidden behind the
fog-curtain. quaint and unSpoiled
They've never done much re-
building since the explosion OF 1T.
remarks an old-timer. ... Hope that
urist-conscicusness doesn't get in
It's influence. -. Such towns should
retain their fine old flavorl
so on to Liverpool and Annapolis
ROYAL .... Lumberjacks and vast
Jams gathering in the rivers and
bays. .Seafaring folk and Indians
Annapolis Royal Is the Oldest
town in North America" saws the
folder. II always thought st.
Augustine. Fla, claimed the age
distinction. 80. Funny that the
oldest town should look so new.
Its because it's been rebuilt SO
Often a V a native. We've mad
many disastrous fires. One was
Just a few years back after a
drought. Almost took the whole
town.
Tourists from all over the world
coming By train. NOTORIOUS and
private autos proving over the
hillv acres about the old fort.....
Tourists nosing through historic
fragments. irving to recall forgot
ten chapters. "A confusingly
checkered story OF a colonv's change
from the hands or the French 70
the British. back 70 the French
and back 70 the British and so on.
Just beyond the fort. the sort OF
graveyard you've always wanted to
find. NJ. Headstones dated back 10
f707. and engraved with such
epitaDhs as Here lveth We BODY or
Bathiah Douglass. the same endow-
ed with niety and virtue. ..." Some
have little verses. the words Of
which are all but erased by wind
ard rain.
A "tea room shoppe." OF all things
operated BY a young man who
points proudly TO chairs and clocks
owned BY his great-grandfathers
and fingers Of water everywhere.
leading to wilderness and omen seal