. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. , which orisiinallv had Fernside for its title : — * Here is the place; right over the hillRuns the path I took;You can see the gap in the old wall still, And the stepping-stones in the shallow brook. Visitors should read the stanzas immediatelv following:this, and note the exactness of the poets description ofthe homestead he had in mind. The poem was writtenmore than twenty years after he left Haverhill, and itwas many years after that when Mr. Alfred Ordway. in i8 LAND takinf:; ]-)liotog;rapbs of llic place, iinticcd tliat it liad al-re
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. , which orisiinallv had Fernside for its title : — * Here is the place; right over the hillRuns the path I took;You can see the gap in the old wall still, And the stepping-stones in the shallow brook. Visitors should read the stanzas immediatelv following:this, and note the exactness of the poets description ofthe homestead he had in mind. The poem was writtenmore than twenty years after he left Haverhill, and itwas many years after that when Mr. Alfred Ordway. in i8 LAND takinf:; ]-)liotog;rapbs of llic place, iinticcd tliat it liad al-ready been pictured in verse ; when he spoke of it toMr. Whittier, the poet was both surprised and pleased atthis,w]iich, he said, was the fust recognition of his birth-place. The public is indebted to I\Ir. Ordway for manyother discoveries of the same kind, illustrating Whittiersminute fidelity to nature in his descriptions of scenery. Let us enter the house by the eastern porch, notingthe circular door-stone, which was the millstone that. GARDEN AT BIRTHPLACE ground the grain of the pioneers, more than a centurybefore Whittier was born. It belonged in the mill on thebrook to which reference has been made. The fire whichdestroyed the roof of the house in November, 1902, didnot injure this porch, and there were other parts of thehouse which were scarcely scorched. These are the ori-ginal walls, and the handiwork of the pioneers is exactlycopied in whatever had to be restored. This was madepossible by photographs that had been kept, showing the HAVERHILL 19 width and shape of every board and moulding, insideand outside the house. Here again it is Mr. Ordway, pre-sident of the board of trustees having the birthplace incharge, who is to be especially thanked. It is properhere, as I have spoken of the fire, to mention the heroicwork of the custodian, Mrs. El a, and others, who savedevery article of the precious souvenirs endangered by thefire, so that nothing was lost. The kitchen,
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