What to see in America . n that ofthe lighthouse keeper. One of the most charming and unusual of New Hampshiretowns is Cornish on the bank of the Connecticut. It is a place of wonderful estates thathave been developed by a colonyof artists, authors, and other pro-fessional men. An early comerwas Augustus St. Gaudens, Amer-icas greatest sculptor. Thebeautiful homes are widely scat-tered about the neighborhood ofBlow-me-down Brook in a regionof steep hills and deep valleys,with the giant form of Mt. As-cut ney looming skyward not faraway to the south. Portsmouth, formerly the larg-est place in t
What to see in America . n that ofthe lighthouse keeper. One of the most charming and unusual of New Hampshiretowns is Cornish on the bank of the Connecticut. It is a place of wonderful estates thathave been developed by a colonyof artists, authors, and other pro-fessional men. An early comerwas Augustus St. Gaudens, Amer-icas greatest sculptor. Thebeautiful homes are widely scat-tered about the neighborhood ofBlow-me-down Brook in a regionof steep hills and deep valleys,with the giant form of Mt. As-cut ney looming skyward not faraway to the south. Portsmouth, formerly the larg-est place in the state, has failedto keep pace with the manufac-turing cities that use water Bailey Aldrich, the poet, was born in Portsmouth,and it was there he had the youthful experiences that herelates in his delightful Story of a Bad Boy. The simpleold house in which he lived has been preserved as amemorial. Another famous man of remarkable originality who beganlife in New Hampshire was the editor, Horace Greeley. He. MOUTH Entrance New Hampshire 21 was born in 1811 in a humble farmhouse at Amherst, a few-miles north of Nashua. But the greatest reputation attained by any of New Hamp-shires sons was that won by Daniel Webster, who was bornin 1782 at the little town of Salisbury, about twenty milesnorth of Concord. He was the ninth in a family of tenchildren. At a very early age he was able to read with suchfluency and charm that the neighbors would often stop atthe farmhouse and ask Websters boy to read to selections were always from the Bible, and he readwith a dramatic power that held his hearers prepare for college he went to Exeter Academy. Hetraveled thither, a distance of fifty miles, riding doublebehind his father. The clothes that he wore had been out-grown, and these and his rustic manners caused him muchmortification at the school. He graduated at Dartmouthin 1801, and within a few years moved to Portsmouth,where he was a successful lawyer an
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