Potomac landings . homes were always opento travellers the ordinaries were few, and such as therewere did a scant business in lodging. Of the four bed-rooms maintained inside the great house at Nominithe family occupied but two and the other two werereserved for guests, all the boys of the family werepermanently banished to sleeping quarters in detachedbuildings near by. Although many a planter com-plained that hospitality was driving him to bank-ruptcy, his welcome never wavered. Washingtoncompared Mount Vernon to a well resorted a hospitable planter would abandon a conspicuoushome
Potomac landings . homes were always opento travellers the ordinaries were few, and such as therewere did a scant business in lodging. Of the four bed-rooms maintained inside the great house at Nominithe family occupied but two and the other two werereserved for guests, all the boys of the family werepermanently banished to sleeping quarters in detachedbuildings near by. Although many a planter com-plained that hospitality was driving him to bank-ruptcy, his welcome never wavered. Washingtoncompared Mount Vernon to a well resorted a hospitable planter would abandon a conspicuoushome and build in a remote spot rather than close hisdoor. Essentially characteristic of river life was the ex-change of visits between the planter and the captainsof the clipper ships which came to his landing directfrom oversea. He depended on these skippers formore than commercial contact with the world; he an-ticipated their coming as he would a journal, for thebriny gossips from England brought all the latest news. !^S J
Size: 1203px × 2077px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectmarylan, bookyear1921
