Image: New England; a human interest geographical reader (1917) (14765160394)

Description: Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches) Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: notablewriters, who had either permanent or summer housesthere, or came thither as visitors, that it was called ajungle of literary^ lions. Among the rest was Haw-thorne, who came in the spring of 1850 to dwell withhis family in a little red house in Stockbridge, just overthe line from Lenox. Down below, in the valley, wasa beautiful lake, and roundabout were hills and moun-tains. While there he wrote The Wonder Book,which boys and girls have read with delight ever since. 142 New England Each day he went with his children, Una and Julian,to a farmhouse half a mile distant for milk along aroad that he called The Milky Way ; and he used to play with themflying kites,went nuttingand climbingtrees, madeboats for themto sail on thelake, tookthem fishingand flower-gathering, andtried to teachthem to swim.In winter hewas their com-panion incoasting, andin building apalace of snowwith ice win-dows. Yet hewas so shywith strangers that he would jump a fence to avoidmeeting them on the highway. Text Appearing After Image: The old while church in Lenox Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader (1917) (14765160394)
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