Cape Cod and the Old colony . mansionsare all staid and old—no great hotels and pri-vate palaces of the newer architecture—noestates covering wide acres or even squaremiles of the Capes territory—no trespasssigns—nothing to raise a fear that old Barn-stable County is losing its democratic equalityof feeling and its simple neighborly ways. Barnstable is neighbor on the east—EastSandwich, West Barnstable, Barnstable—these are the calls on the train. By the plain-est of cotmtry railway stations, almost on therailway track, to a modest ancestral home,comes a distinguished Harvard Professor inthe s
Cape Cod and the Old colony . mansionsare all staid and old—no great hotels and pri-vate palaces of the newer architecture—noestates covering wide acres or even squaremiles of the Capes territory—no trespasssigns—nothing to raise a fear that old Barn-stable County is losing its democratic equalityof feeling and its simple neighborly ways. Barnstable is neighbor on the east—EastSandwich, West Barnstable, Barnstable—these are the calls on the train. By the plain-est of cotmtry railway stations, almost on therailway track, to a modest ancestral home,comes a distinguished Harvard Professor inthe summer, to rest himself with Indian lore,eat his summer apples, look out on GreatMarshes and Sandy Neck, and show forth theeternal loyalty of the Capes sons. You go down a little hill, three minutes, andyou are on Barnstables main—we might al-most say only—street. You look up anddown, you are looking for the business part ofthe village and while you are looking you havegone through it unaware. Where you inter-. Old Colony Names and Towns 121 sect this one street you find all the essentialsof a county seat. Here is an old courthouseof solid stone, with low and narrow halls, ap-propriate conductors to the not much popu-lated jail that is behind the seat of justice. Afew steps westward is the town hall, of wood,one-storied and new. Between the town andthe county building is an old style single-storied country lawyers office, and across theway is an inn. It is all there within a stonesthrow. Go in one direction and if you go far enoughyou will find the Post Office and the old customhouse. It is all one building and on a hill, butthe custom house is to be given over appro-priately to be a home for local history. Acrossthe road is the old first church and aroundare the gravestones of the fathers. Some ofthe more weathered slabs—being moimted ina horizontal position, they have weatheredrapidly—have been recently topped with new-ly inscribed stones, put there by loya
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