Show roalin around with the N E A this is another in a series of articles fly by albert NV epperson who with virginia and shirley were in attendance at the convention of the he national editorial association held in the new england states we anve had bad been told of the cranberry boss bogs and the hobo special owned anil and operated by ellis D atwood at south carver mass a two hour drive by bus from boston so this was our trip on the clorn ing of june 15 upon our arrival we were ruid guld ed to the adaville Ed aville station where we saw an all exact replica of it a railroad station only smaller in III size the station has a lunch a and nd refreshment counter curio stands in fact everything that a regular staton station has soon we were aboard tile the eda ville special it a train that runs over a two foot gauge roadbed and wanders for five and one half miles through the bogs of the I 1 largest I 1 t cranberry plantation in the mr ali atwood pui purchased chased his rolling stock which includes really neaily every type of car from defunct I 1 railroads ail roads in the state of maine alaine ilis his original idea was to put the work equipment to t good d its use on oil III his cranberry plantation seems mr atwood alwood vas mobbed fly by people wilo wanted to ride liis his linins with tile the result that tant the road that wits was odgin ally intended for freight find and work only has now turned into it a road that provides fun for tile the public the road now lias has about SO pieces of rolling stock including box cars flat cars and tank eat cars that are used to haul hall sand berries and other fi eight there are arc several A steam cant locomotives locomotive apdo 60 million invested the cranberry industry depre i presents ii at investment the state slate produces 17 percent or of the nations annual chop and there nio ate 1 1 1010 IMI acres of oe bogs acres of which are located in plymouth county the ilc spot we ave were ti visiting cultivation of cranberries began in massachusetts about ih ill they were originally known its as crane berries as craties cranes used to feed on them and the contraction of the two words give us its tile the present name cranberries are susceptible to frost all they need is a slight nip nil and the crop is gone anc if the mercury drops to it point that indicates danger the goes out u t ollices a arc i e ocene opened 1 I and 70 0 million kallons lio n s of water rush through the hundred blumes flumes and miles of canals to coyer cover the bogs the next day another chew takes over tr to drain the lios hogs before tile the sun gets els hot enough to cald tile crop harvested by hand most of the berries are aie still harvested arcs ted by hand despite the tha fact t that h at some mechanical pickets pickers have t lan een developed tined scoops which hold hold about a half bushel tire arc em m aloyed by tile the pickers who shuffle through the bogs on their knees many berries are aie inadvertently knocked off the vines in the PI pio 0 cess cesa in order older to retrieve them the niu are flooded arid and the fruit I 1 flo floats its to the top A stiff breeze usually blows them tg shoo sho she o where they are saved fui for jelly sauce and other dishes from carver our buses trans p poi arted ted us the seven miles to the town or of I 1 plymouth Ily mouth where we par pai took of another delicious seafood dinner on a beach overlooking the A atlantic t ant c ocean ee it was as here th that n t the dedication rededication re lie program of the national editorial asso association clation was presented at the site where the P pilgrim fathers first landed on american free soil pilgrim guides pilgrims young bys boys of tile the community dressed the part were our guides to places of interest about the city plymouth ruck rock was not as large as we had expected it stands below the level of the street and is complexly enclosed for foi po pio front from those who might wish to chip portions of rock lock the thousands of Amen cans who visit the nations birthplace at plymouth now find un an important addition to the numerous pilgrim points of interest now thet ethcie c con st ruction of the first life size bep licit of an early caily pilgrim house has been completed under chupei vision of plemoth plantation ini ine tin organization is set up as a non 0 at k OVA k X x 1 lr I 1 M 4 16 1 6 I 1 t K 74 7 4 11 6 lit in plymouth miss mass this building bin klinK is is tile lit first of ameral atti ail planned pi to li bt be reconstructed constructed ie along title of authentic hoines dionus of if the pilgrims profit group and has supervision over the preservation and reconstruction st of pilgrim memorabilia it uses the name given by the fir first bt governor bradford when he wrote his famous history of plemoth plantation built frame houses the pilgrim home is located on the state reservation near the famous rock where the pilgrims landed years ago contrary to earlier beliefs it is now known that the pilgrims did not build log cabins but that their first buildings were frame houses with vertical plank siding this reproduction follows faithfully the findings of considerable careful research and study it is is the forerunner of a more ambitious plan to reproduce th the C eat early ay pilgrim village these plans call for the construction of a dozen houses as they were originally located on the first street an indian village an old grist mill a sawing pit and the leading up to the old fort and sleeting house the land for this project has already been selected and a portion of it purchased to he be continued |