Old Days at Beverly Farms (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781596293991)

Vendor: Mary Larcom Dow
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Format: Paperback
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Old Days at Beverly Farms

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Old Days at Beverly Farms

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Format: Paperback
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In a wealthy waterfront neighborhood filled with tradition, gardens and grand houses, residents of Beverly Farms once enjoyed pastoral views and over-the-fence chats. Mary Larcom Dow writes at the beginning of Old Days at Beverly Farms that she was nominated to pen her memories as a result of her absence from a historical society meeting. However, it is clear that no one was more inside the fold of the community than Dow. With her house-by-house description of architecture and inhabitants, landscape and gardens, Dow delightfully captures the old days of the nineteenth century. She focuses on the warmth of extended families, the particular sound of their laughter, their hardships and, most of all, their neighborly love.

Author: Mary Larcom Dow
ISBN-10: 1596293993
ISBN-13: 9781596293991
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 6.80h x 5.23w x 0.61d
By Mary Larcom Dow
By Mary Larcom Dow
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Mary Larcom Dow, née Ober, was cousin to the New England writer and poet Lucy Larcom. Born in 1835 in a little house on Mingo Beach Hill, she was a schoolteacher (and later headmistress) at the Farms School on Indian Hill, just above Prides Crossing station. She worked her way through school by binding shoes, and received her education at the State Normal School in Salem, Massachusetts. She resided in "the Farms" until her death in 1920.

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