Show RICH WITH CHARM OF AGE Old In Massachusetts Ont One of the Most Interesting of New NewS Engla England d Towns S Descendants of ot tile lie first families will tell you in all n earnestness that the newest house In Old Deerfield Is at atle lei le ot one hundred and twenty-five twenty years old As a matter of fact this Is not a true statement but It cannot be called a lie on the part of ot the Informant Informant informant In In- formant who is a Puritanical New Englander The difference is all in the p point of V view For him or for her her the half halt dozen homes and the one hotel that have haye been built In the last decade do donot donot donot not exist He does not see them but looks right through and sees the landscape landscape landscape land land- as it was before the lie blot ap ip- ip pea red V Old Deer Deerfield eldIS 13 iS little changed since the Indians trailed through Massachusetts Massa Massa- on their way from Albany to Boston Relics of ot many a battle between between be be- tween the white man man and his red- red skinned foe are to tobe be seen In the little museum Deerfield's only public building Various boulders I along Main street and on the Albany post road commemorate the many bloody struggles to push the new frontier tron- tron tier westward In those early pioneer days Trees that were old when Columbus discovered America overreach Deerfield's Deerfield's Deerfield's Deer- Deer fields field's one beautiful highway Main Main street Their height It If not their size of ot trunk is III almost great enough to tempt the eloquence of ot a native Call Call- For safety's sake a plump very vert plump purse or one that has hns been beeD stepped on by the proverbial elephant Is a necessity in visiting Old Deer Deerfield eld Her women have haTe revived housewifely Industries Industries' and renewed needle needie and loom artistry Loom productions ons like those that New England grandmothers turned out Modest signs may be seen announcing Raffia Rama Baskets that have earned for their weavers a world fame for design color and fine weaving tag ing Quilts and Needlework that would stagger the hurried city bred city bred woman Tatting and Knitted Lace Photographs now recognized on two continents continents' as ns unusual camera art and finally a Tea Room for AutomobilIsts In a house bearing the date of ot 1078 1678 |