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The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Beautiful Brings Changes Cherished Days Domestic Ended Evidence Family History Home Hospitality Light Many Much Often Private Prosperity Rich Sad Study Tavern

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In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Bench Early England Legs Like Long Made Narrow New New England Placed Rough Seats Simple Uncomfortable Were Which

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From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Baby Bleak England Eyes Had He His Hour Life New New England Opened Puritan Struggle

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It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Another Any Asking Corn Country Cutting Evident Expenditure Fail Fish Fuel Game Had Indoors Labor Land Least Long Man Must Plainly Planting Reliable Serve Service System Where Would

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One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: Any Before Building Community Devil Earliest Engine England Every First God Got His House Institutions New New England Often Pair Public Stocks

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The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.

~Alice Morse Earle

Topics: America Annoying Colonial English Far Habit Irritating Learn Plentiful Records Scold Shape Though Too Unknown Were Women

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: April 27th, 1851

Died: February 16th, 1911

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