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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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antproperly describes it as an old fashioned country seat. Itis a splendid example of Georgian architecture, and as noblesurroundings breed nobleness of character, we must not failto acknowledge the courtesy of the present tenants who so gen-erously allow the passing stranger to share the fortune whichis theirs. This is a characteristic not always present in thedenizens of historic haunts. The main road of Cambridge, Massachusetts Avenue, leadsto Concord, as certain red-coated soldiers found out to theirsorrow on a day in April, 1775. The British troops, fresh fromtheir first brush with the farmers at Lexington, march intoConcord, past the village green and burying ground, down theroad apace to where it turns by the side of an old house at theend of a long avenue of trees, and down the turning as far asthe estate itself runs, which is to a bridge across the ConcordRiver. Here there is another skirmish and the soldiers, con-vinced that their further progress will be met with violent 44
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mW .o ^ 45 opposition, turn and retrace their steps in the direction ofBoston. An old man looking out of a window of the house wehave mentioned witnessed what his grandson described as theshot heard round the world. The house still stands at theend of the avenue of trees, and close by the road a sign read-ing, The Public Are Not Admitted, keeps back the throngsof sightseers who would otherwise over run the place. For this house, in addition to its Revolutionary history(which is not rare in houses hereabouts) has been written ofin a book that will live in literature—Hawthornes MossesFrom an Old Manse. The house was built in 1765 as amanse or parsonage for the village minister, who happenedto be Rev. William Emerson, grandfather of the Sage ofConcord. In after days, Ralph Waldo Emerson lived andwrote his Nature here, and here Hawthorne came to startmarried life. But though that hydra-headed monster, the pub-lic, may not approach nearer than the gate, the house recon-structe

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