From the Hub to the Hudson with sketches Nature, history, industry in NW MA 1869

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From the Hub to the Hudson with sketches Nature, history, industry in NW MA 1869
From the Hub to the Hudson with sketches of Nature, history and industry in North-western Massachusetts by Washington Gladden
Copyright 1869
Hard cover
149 pages
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PREFACE..
IN the collection of materials for this little book .I have been assisted by many friends; among whom are Messrs. Stevens of the Mansion House in Greenfield ; and Rev. Robert Crawford, D. D., Nathaniel Hitchcock, Esq., and Dr. Charles Williams of Deer-
field. Hitchcock's Geological Report, Holland's His-
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tory of Western Massachusetts, Hoyt's Indian Wars,
Barber's Historical Collections, and the various reports of Commissioners and Engineers upon the Hoosac Tunnel, have been of great service to me. The engravings of the Tunnel were executed from photographs by Messrs. Hurd & Ward of North Adams.
The book is built on these two maxims :
i. History begins at home.
2. It is better to see one town from all its hill-
tops than five hundred towns from the car windows
notices of various persons and industries. I ask him to take my word for it that these are not purchased puffs, and they were not prompted by that species of gratitude peculiar .to politicians-" a lively sense of favors yet to come."
My first purpose was to let the book be anonymous, from a foolish feeling that such work might be considered unprofessional; but I have concluded that the attempt to show people how and where they may cheaply and pleasantly spend their few days of summer vacation-often the dreariest days of the year-is nothing to be ashamed of or apologized for. A book that helps anybody to see and enjoy the Connecticut Valley or the Berkshire Hills, will be likely to do less harm than a book about the Mode of Baptism or the Origin of Evil. I do not, however, pretend to have been wholly actuated by considerations of benevolence. I have enjoyed the writing of the book. It may be death to my readers, but it has been sport for me.
The rest of the preface will be found in the body of the book.
From the Hub to the Hudson.
CHAPTER I.
FROM BOSTON TO GREENFIELD.
ACERTAIN Vermont Yankee, extolling, as Yang kees are wont to do, the town of his nativity,
mentioned as one of its distinguishing peculiarities the remarkable fact that you could start from there to go to any place in creation. The Yankee who hails from Boston may, without exceeding his usual modesty, make the same claim for the place of his residence. Boston is a good place to start from. Indeed it is said that pretty much everything that moves in this world has started, or does start, from Boston. Here the fires of revolutionary patriotism were kindled; here is Faneuil Hall, and the Old South Church; here John Hancock learned to write that large hand which so boldly leads the column of signatures to the famous declaration ; here Adams spoke, and Otis wrote, and Warren fought and fell. Out of Boston came the Radical Abolition-
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