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Show RICH WITH CHARM CF AGE Old Deerfield, in Massachusetts, On of the Most Interesting of New England Towns. Descendants of the first families will tell you In all earnestness that the newest house in Old Deerfield is at le:-K- one hundred and twenty-five years old. As a matter of fact, this ts not a true statement, but it cannot be called "a lie" on the part of the informant, in-formant, who is a Puritanical New Englander. The difference is ail in the point of view. For him or for her. the half dozen homes and the one hotel that have been built in the last decade do not exist. He does not see them, but looks right through and sues the hind-scape hind-scape a? it was before the blot ip-pcared. ip-pcared. Old Deerfield is little changed since the Indians trailed through Massachusetts Massa-chusetts on their way from Albany to Boston. Relics of many a battle between be-tween the white man and his red-skinned red-skinned foe are to be seen in the little Poeomtuck museum, Deerfield's only public building. Various boulders along Main street and on the Albany post road commemorate the many bloody struggles to push the new frontier fron-tier westward in those early pioneer days. Trees that were old when Columbus discovered America overreach Deer-field's Deer-field's one beautiful highway Main street. Their height, if not their size of trunk, is almost great enough ir tempt the eloquence of a native Call-fornian. Call-fornian. For safety's sake a plump, very plump, purse or one that lias been stepped on by the proverbial elephant is a necessity in visiting Old Deerfield. Her women have revived housewifely industries and renewed needle and loom artistry. Loom productions like those that New England grandmother.-: turned out. Modest signs may he seen announcing: "Raffia Baskets" that have earned for their weavers a world fttme for design, color and tine weaving; weav-ing; "Quilts and Needlework," Hint would stagger the hurried city-bred woman; "Tatting and Knitted Lace;" "n.iotographs" now recognized on mo ;ontinents as unusual camera art. and, finally, a "Tea Room for Auiomohil-ists" Auiomohil-ists" in a house beuring the date of 1678. |
