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Show RICH WITH CHARM OF AGE Old Deerfleld, in Massachusetts, One of the Most Interesting of New England Towns. ppRrpndnnts of the first families will tell you in nil earnestness thai the newest house in Old Deerfleld Is at le;.K one hundred and Iwenty-flVO years old. As a matter of fact, tin IS not a true statement, but It cannnl be railed "a lie" on. the part of the In fnrniant. who is a Puritanical New Bnglsnder, The difference Is all in the p ilnl nf view. For him or for her. the half , dozen homes anil the one hotel that i have been built In the lust decade do J not evist. He does not see them, but 9 looks right through and sees the land- i cape as It was before the blot ip- c peered, I Old Deerfleld la little changed since I the Indians trailed through Uaa0s I rhttsetts on their way from Albanv to I BoatOO. Relics of many ii battle lie- twee II the white man and his red- I skinned foe are to be seen lr the little f Pocomttick museum. Deerfleld's only f DObllC building. Various bniililirs ' along Main street and on the Albany Mist road commemorate (he many f bloody struggles to push tli" new frontier fron-tier westward In those early pioneer days. Trees that were old when ''oliiinbus discovered America overreach Deer field's one beautiful highway Main street. Their height. If not their si. of trunk. Is nlmost great enough ti tempt the eloquence of a native Call fornlan For safety's sake a plump, very plump, purse or one Unit bus been stepped on by the proverbial elephant la a necessity In visiting Old Deerfleld. Her iviiini n have revived housewifely Industries and renewed, needle anil loom artistry. Loom productions Ilk" those that New Kngliind grandtnothet . turned out. Modest signs in i.v be aeon Minounclng: "Hallla Baskets" that have earned for their weavers a world lame for design, color and tine weav-'Jig weav-'Jig ; "Quilts und Needlework." that would stagger the hurried city-bred woman; "Tatting end Knitted I. ace:" "I'.iotographs" now rcciignlsed on two (ontlnents as unusuul camera sri ami. Anally, a "Tea Itooui for Autnuiubll- isis Id M house bearing th- date of 1U7S. |