Fri. Mar. 19, 1897 Wea. nice

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Stayed home all day. Worked on my ‘kerchief and read a great deal of “Green Mountain Boys” and I think it is fine – it is a war story of 1775. We stayed home this evening and all read and enjoyed ourselves. It seems nice to be alone and not be bothered with “pesky men” and having to have meals on time etc. We do not half realize what a good time we are having.
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NOTES:
This excerpt taken from the Bennington Museum website:
In 1839 Judge Daniel Pierce Thompson wrote his most famous work of fiction. Printed locally in 1840 and nationally in 1848, his novel, The Green Mountain Boys, served to educate the nation about Vermont’s early struggle for independence. Supposedly created from first-person accounts gathered by the author in his youth, this romantic and patriotic tale follows the fictional Captain Warrington and his trusty sidekick Selden from the land wars with New York through the capture of Fort Ticonderoga and the War for Independence. As a Green Mountain Boy, Warrington, based almost completely on Seth Warner, takes part in many of the early Vermont legends and interacts with such historic personages as Ethan Allen, Remember Baker, Ira Allen, Thomas Chittenden, and Benedict Arnold. In addition to action, the novel also features a love story between Selden and Alma Hendee, the daughter of a retired British army captain and based on the author’s own daughter by the same name.
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