. Outdoors in New England . All ready for the Boarde New England also shares with the new empire of thewest in memories of Indian warfare, and in almost every partof the vacation country are to be found evidences of the redmans occupation of the land. In different sections of the Mer-rimack Valley, and around the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee,are to be found relics of their forts, villages, plantations and x/ - -4-,. pow-wows; and to those of their white successors who possessthe priceless gift of imagination Moccasined feet glide oer the pebbly floors;Hands long years quiet launch their bark c
. Outdoors in New England . All ready for the Boarde New England also shares with the new empire of thewest in memories of Indian warfare, and in almost every partof the vacation country are to be found evidences of the redmans occupation of the land. In different sections of the Mer-rimack Valley, and around the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee,are to be found relics of their forts, villages, plantations and x/ - -4-,. pow-wows; and to those of their white successors who possessthe priceless gift of imagination Moccasined feet glide oer the pebbly floors;Hands long years quiet launch their bark canoes;Afar there floats the splash of gleaming the weird war chant of their phantom crews! — Frances Bartlett Some of the fairest towns of Massachusetts could a taleunfold of dreadful massacre and devastation during the earlyIndian wars. The memorable warfare waged by King Philip between1 675 and 1678, for instance, left desolate the towns of Spring-field, Lancaster, Deerfield, Hadley, Medfield, Groton, War-wick and Marlboro, and took one out of every 20 of the popu-lation. But few of the descendants of the New England Indians survive to-day, the only large colony of them (thePenobscots) living at Oldtown, Maine. A few of these spendthe summer months at Intervale and other vacation resorts. Long and varied as is the foregoing roll-call, it by nomeans exhausts the attractions of Outdoor New England
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