. Outdoors in New England . s thousands of European tourists visit the home ofShakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon, so do thousands of Ameri-can travelers repair to Concord and Lexington, to stand rever-ently upon the spot where the first struggle in behalf of Ameri-can liberty took place and to gaze on the remaining physicalmementoes of that fateful clash between the Minute Men andthe British soldiers. In Concord, doubly endeared to the American publicthrough its Revolutionary and literary associations, the visitorwill find much that will unfailingly interest and instruct Old North Bridge
. Outdoors in New England . s thousands of European tourists visit the home ofShakespeare at Stratford-on-Avon, so do thousands of Ameri-can travelers repair to Concord and Lexington, to stand rever-ently upon the spot where the first struggle in behalf of Ameri-can liberty took place and to gaze on the remaining physicalmementoes of that fateful clash between the Minute Men andthe British soldiers. In Concord, doubly endeared to the American publicthrough its Revolutionary and literary associations, the visitorwill find much that will unfailingly interest and instruct Old North Bridge, its statue of the Minute Man, itsancient Wright Tavern, its Sleepy Hollow cemetery and itseloquent reminders of Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott and Haw-thorne are but a few of its precious possessions. Lexington, with its immortal Green; Sudbury, with itsWayside Inn; Medford, with its ancient Royall and Cradockhouses, all have a magnetic attraction for the visitor from be-yond the confines of New England. They are beautiful com-. munities in their own right, too, and would be well worthvisiting even if they were not of such historical importance. Then there is quaint, yet prosperous Salem, which wasmaking American history long before the farmers of Concordand Lexington dreamed of the fame that was in store for theirtowns—Salem, with its tragic memories of the terrible witch-craft delusion of 1692, and the birthplace of the gifted Na-thaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter. Throngs of visitors from every state of the Union come toSalem every year to look upon Gallows Hill and the site of thetrials of the hapless victims; and nearby Danvers, which wasreally the place where the so-called Salem witchcraft phantasyoriginated, is likewise the mecca of these curiosity seekers. It is a far cry from the trial of Rebecca Nourse to thesigning of the Russo-Japanese peace treaty at Portsmouth, butpublic interest in the latter is scarcely less marked than in theantiquarian lore of Salem
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