An Account of the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Mattapoisett Massachusetts
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Excerpt from An Account of the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Mattapoisett Massachusetts: August 18-24, 1907 Fifty years ago a Mattapoisett home would have been incomplete, its mistress lacking in taste and sensibility, if the parlor table had not been ornamented with various "Tokens," "Keepsakes" or "Souvenirs" - little volumes bound in black and gold, containing gems of prose and verse, illustrated by steel engravings of Venetian or other foreign scenes, fair ladies and brave men, the latter generally in the characters of Highlanders, Giaours or Pirates. These are now banished to the top shelf of the bookcase, or packed away in the attic, among other old book friends; too shabby for association with the newest novel in its gay binding and Christy girl frontispiece, too dear to throw away. Too dear, it may be, because of the delicate slanting writing on the fly leaf, bearing the owners and the donors names. In the year which has just passed, we have very much enjoyed observing the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of our town and reading its past history; and on many social occasions or casual meetings there has been much reminiscent talk. The quaint old town characters have been recalled, their witty sayings, practical jokes and doggerel rhymes repeated; and more than once has some one wished that we could have pictures of the village as it looked fifty years ago, and more memorials of the past village life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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