The Playground, Vol. 5
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Excerpt from The Playground, Vol. 5: April, 1911 What is a home? It is a fire on a rock in the primeval wilderness around which arc gathered a man and a woman singeing the raw meat of the fresh kill and nourishing their young. Again, it is a city.-or it may be, a group of cities, - harmoniously ordered for the best life of the great metropolitan family there gathered together. Such is the ideal that "Boston-1915" has set before it to realize in the next four years as far as may be, in the community of thirty-one cities and nearly 1,500,000 people that center around Boston Harbor. To proclaim its purpose vividly, to enlist the understanding and the enthusiasm of the people, "Boston-1915" produced a pageant last November depicting the development of the city as the home of man from the earliest conjectural days of the Cave Man, through the period of Indian life, and the Colonial times, to the present and on into the future, symbolically suggesting the conditions that "Boston-1915" is striving to create, - the Pageant of the Perfect City. The poster of the pageant, which was placarded on the bill boards and which also was printed on the program, bore the description "From Cave Life to City Life." It showed a cave-man standing with his family on an eminence, looking through the clouds at a vision of the city of Boston, as seen from the river bank on the Cambridge side, showing across the water the Back Bay and Beacon Hill surmounted by the gold dome of the State House. It would have been ideal if the pageant could have been given on some such location. The place whose history is being portrayed should be itself always in view of the audience, dominating all the episodes that illustrate its development. But November weather made any out-door performance of the pageant impracticable. The pageant was to be the artistic and dramatic element in the Civic Advance Campaign of "Boston-1915," its series of conferences and meetings on questions of civic improvement, which was to introduce its winter work. The civic purpose was the main thing; all other considerations had to be set aside. November necessarily was the date, and indoors therefore it had to be. 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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