Little journeys in old New England . of the undertaking, and about themiddle of April, 1841, he took possessionwith his wife and sister and some fifteenothers, including Hawthorne, of the farm- 295 OLD NEW ENGLA:^rD EOOFTEEES house, v/hichj with a large barn, wasalready on the estate. The first six months were spent in get-ting started, especially in the matter ofthe school, of which Mrs. Ripley waslargely in charge, and it was not untilearly fall — September 29—that theBrook Earm Institute of Agriculture andEducation was organised as a kind of jointstock company, not incorporated. A seeker af
Little journeys in old New England . of the undertaking, and about themiddle of April, 1841, he took possessionwith his wife and sister and some fifteenothers, including Hawthorne, of the farm- 295 OLD NEW ENGLA:^rD EOOFTEEES house, v/hichj with a large barn, wasalready on the estate. The first six months were spent in get-ting started, especially in the matter ofthe school, of which Mrs. Ripley waslargely in charge, and it was not untilearly fall — September 29—that theBrook Earm Institute of Agriculture andEducation was organised as a kind of jointstock company, not incorporated. A seeker after country quiet and beautymight easily be as much attracted to-dayby the undulating acres of Brook Earmas were those who sought it sixty yearsago as a refuge from social brook still babbles cheerily as itthreads its way through the meadows, andthere are still pleasant pastures and shadygroves on the large estate. The only oneof the community buildings which is stillstanding, however, is that now known as296. OLD ISTEW ENGLAND KOOETKEES the Martin Luther Orphan Home. Thishouse was built at the very start of thecommunity life by Mrs. A. G. Alford, oneof the members of the colony. The building was in the form of a Mal-tese cross with four gables, the central spacebeing taken by the staircase. It containedonly about half a dozen rooms, and proba-bly could not have accommodated morethan that number of residents. It is saidto have been the prettiest and best fur-nished house on the place, but an examina-tion of its simple construction will confirmthe memory of one of its occupants, who re-marked that contact with nature was herealways admirably close and the rough dwelling, which resembledan inexpensive beach cottage, to out-doorswas hardly a transition, it is chronicled,and at all seasons the external and internaltemperatures closely corresponded. Until 297 OLD NEW ENGLAND EOOFTKEES lately the cottage wore its original dark-brown colour; and
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