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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: America Being Boxes Chief Claim Dutch Formal Gardens Other Plants Pots Pretty Set Very

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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Beauty Behind Cherished Dignified Eyes Forward Front Full Gardens Gracious Houses Lie Life Passing Present Public Reserved Serene Strangers Treasures View Walls You

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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Amsterdam Born Boston Children Colonial Crossed Fathers First Infancy Life New New World Ocean Pilgrims Sad Something Strange Those Thought Who World Years

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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Bible Distress Family Hopes Many Old Read Records Suffering

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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Astrology Believed Century Chiefly Christian Crops Cut Governed Had Health His Influences Life Medicine Occult Only Planetary Science Some Still Trusting Which Wholly

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The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Babies Baby Could Cradle Descendant Does Generations His Many Nothing Old Prettier Slept Successive Survived Than Use Years

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When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Almost American Difficulties Finding First Landed Making Must Seemed Settlers Shelter Shores Unbearable Well

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By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Attic Bay Built Chimney Colonies Extending First Foot Frequently Further Houses Log More Out Over Replaced Second Sometimes Still Stories Story Two Were Which Wooden Year

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Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Any Appear Colored Early Either England Few Houses Lists New New England Painted Painters Were Within Without

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The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: American Both Colonists Course Everywhere Fat First Forests Found Greatest Houses Lighting Most Natural Natural Way North Plenty South Way Were Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: April 27th, 1851

Died: February 16th, 1911

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