Show WHITTIER'S AMESBURY HOME In this dry ry and n ri 1 home of ours where we are so familiar with mountains too steep to climb with ledges towering high but constantly crumbling and tumbling tumbling tumbling ing down into the already stony gulches gulches- below with canyons whose streams have cut through and opened the strata to our view we ewe become accustomed tomed to scenery that is colossal In contrast to our way door-way views will the reader kindly go with me to a home II among among the hills where the scenery in summer is smooth rolling gentle slopes of green s On the north bank of the Merrimac river and about six miles from the sea is a series of small valleys and rolling hills For a commanding view the traveler must climb to the top of I PowWow PowWow Pow Pow- PowWow Wow hill located perhaps a mile north of the river This point reached the view is indeed beautiful One is moved almost to say that on all sides we have peeps into paradise We look north into New Hampshire and from north to south along the beach we see Isles of Shoals Hampton Beach Salisbury Beach Newbury Port Cape Ann and Gloucester South we see in inthe inthe 1 the distance Twin Peaks that hide from us Salem and Marblehead but more interesting and nearer to us than any of these j just at the foot of the hill is the home of our humble sweet-spirited sweet Whittier he who ever helps us to open wide Our windows on lifes life's sunny side We feel that Wow Pow hill has been a useful servant not only to us but also to the native Indians who named it Pow Wow Pow Wow in the Indian tongue means council But let us go down at once and into the poet home in the little littletown littletown littletown town of Amesbury The Friends are expecting us and are there to greet us The home faces north We enter the north door and are taken into The Garden Study facing the south where everything is found to be plain and simple On the east wall is arranged quite an extensive library and near it is isa is isa a writing Around the open-front open Franklin stove there are chairs that have smooth plain backs and cushioned bottoms bottoms bottoms bot bot- toms and with them is a similar-looking similar couch On a glass door that opens to a porch on the north-east north is hung The Pressed Gentian II sent to Whittier by r Lucy Larcom In the opposite corner ti is a closet where the poets poet's hats one a aa a straw and the other a silk hat and some f- f other articles of his clothing are still hanging We notice the fringe is cut f Fk 4 from the ends of the rug that is spread g before the stove and the Friends tell us usi usk i k that Whittier did it himself himself The he het t decorations are much picture and little frame A detailed description of the study-room study gives a general idea of the theother theother F other parts of the house A feeling of peace and sweet content creeps over us and we leave with the impression Simplicity Simplicity Simplicity Sim Sim- Simplicity A short way west north-west is II The Friends' Friends Church II the interior of which is simple clean clean no no pulpit pulpit all all parts similar seats cushioned On the east lies The Friends' Friends Cemetery II where the Whittier family are buried We finally go to the wharf near by to sail up the Merrimac and take with us a day of most pleasant memory a day never to tobe tobe tobe be forgotten D. D L. L McDonald |