Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . ll to repentance. The gallery, which extends around three sides ofthe church, is very spacious and is supported byeighteen beautiful Ionic columns. On the platform infront of the pulpit is a beautiful communion table,purchased in Boston about 1818; also a fine old chair,known as the Osgood chair, in use before Dr. Osgoodbegan his pastorate in 1809. The church has somerare old communion pieces, which are kept in a safeplace and are highly prized. Miss I. F. Farrar has written of the First Churchrooster: The citys oldest inhabitant is prob
Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . ll to repentance. The gallery, which extends around three sides ofthe church, is very spacious and is supported byeighteen beautiful Ionic columns. On the platform infront of the pulpit is a beautiful communion table,purchased in Boston about 1818; also a fine old chair,known as the Osgood chair, in use before Dr. Osgoodbegan his pastorate in 1809. The church has somerare old communion pieces, which are kept in a safeplace and are highly prized. Miss I. F. Farrar has written of the First Churchrooster: The citys oldest inhabitant is probably theFirst Church rooster. He arrived in town over 150 yearsago. He is a much larger bird than one would thinkat first sight, measuring four feet from tail to beak andweighing 49 pounds. A few papers and records arestored with him for safe keeping. If he would only speak, many a tale would hehave to tell. He watched the first President roll upthe river road in his coach and four and enter Parsonstavern, now no more. He saw the troops form which 36. KooSTKH AND ()S(i()()|) (II.\ I should represent Springfield in the Revolutionary war,the war of 1812, the Civil war and the Spanish watched the steamboats ply between Hartford andSpringfield when there were no falls to bar the saw the ferries move slowly from the Agawam tothe Springfield meadows, conveying the people tochurch, the only church for miles around. He heardthe long discussions over the feasibility of building abridge over the Connecticut, when the old men shooktheir heads and said: You might as well try to bridgethe Atlantic ocean ! He sighs over the change fromthe six-horse coaches rolling in from Albany andBoston, discharging their loads of gentles and ladiesin wigs and ruffles and buckles, to the automobiles oftoday, whizzing by with their occupants so disguisedin goggles, linen dusters and rubber suits that hesometimes wonders what those creatures are! Hehas gazed calmly down on all sorts of doings o
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