. Outdoors in New England . e shrineof American literature, just as he himself was the poet ofNew England and of the common people. The fame ofWhittier, says one of his admirers, will live as long as thePow-wow runs to the Merrimac and the Merrimac to the sea. Hundreds of visitors come east to enjoy the privilege ofentering the portals of the house in Portland in which that othersplendid bard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was born;others find their way to the birthplace of the great Horace Gree-ley in Amherst, N. H.; and yet others seek out the old homeof William Cullen Bryant in the hill count
. Outdoors in New England . e shrineof American literature, just as he himself was the poet ofNew England and of the common people. The fame ofWhittier, says one of his admirers, will live as long as thePow-wow runs to the Merrimac and the Merrimac to the sea. Hundreds of visitors come east to enjoy the privilege ofentering the portals of the house in Portland in which that othersplendid bard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was born;others find their way to the birthplace of the great Horace Gree-ley in Amherst, N. H.; and yet others seek out the old homeof William Cullen Bryant in the hill country of western Massa-chusetts. Even Brattleboro has achieved a new distinction, since itharbored for a time the redoubtable Rudyard Kipling. Thereare many, too, who take that delightful jaunt from Boston toPortsmouth by rail, and thence by steamer to the isolatedIsles of Shoals, not only because those rocky islets themselvesappeal to them, but because it was there that Celia Thaxterlived and worked and wrote her sweet 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-,
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