The New England magazine . meof the year to see Annapolis in the presentday and generation is during June is the time when the graduating exer-cises at the Naval Academy are held andwhen the town takes on itself a holiday airakin to that seen in university towns inCommencement Week the world over. ButAnnapolis is so small, so dirty, so dilapida-ted, except in spots, so quaint, its narrowstreets so full of black people, and altogetherso delightful, that to a Northerner at leastit must seem as if there was nothing like itanywhere. June Week is the fat season for Annapo-lis, especially
The New England magazine . meof the year to see Annapolis in the presentday and generation is during June is the time when the graduating exer-cises at the Naval Academy are held andwhen the town takes on itself a holiday airakin to that seen in university towns inCommencement Week the world over. ButAnnapolis is so small, so dirty, so dilapida-ted, except in spots, so quaint, its narrowstreets so full of black people, and altogetherso delightful, that to a Northerner at leastit must seem as if there was nothing like itanywhere. June Week is the fat season for Annapo-lis, especially for the boarding-houses, theshops, and the favored individual who has amonopoly of the automobile and hack busi-ness. There are two public automobiles inAnnapolis, and about two hundred hacks,some of which must certainly have been inuse on the night when George Washingtondiscovered Richard Carvel in the fisticuffsencounter with his rival in the village tap-room. For a door to fall off or a passenger 88 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. Richard Carvel House, near Anrapolis
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