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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
·
Lucy Larcom
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I
had
many
peculiar
experiences
in
my
log-cabin
school-teaching,
which
was
seldom
more
than
three
months
in
one
place.
Only
once
I
found
myself
among
New
England
people,
and
there
I
remained
a
year
or
more,
fairly
reveling
in
a
return
to
the
familiar,
thrifty
ways
that
seem
to
me
to
shape
a
more
comfortable
style
of
living
than
any
under
the
sun.
"Vine
Lodge"
(so
we
named
the
cottage
for
its
embowering
honey-suckles),
and
its
warm-hearted
inmates,
with
my
little
white
schoolhouse
under
the
oaks,
make
one
of
the
brightest
of
my
Western
memories.
Only
a
mile
or
two
away
from
this
pretty
retreat
there
was
an
edifice
towards
which
I
often
looked
with
longing.
It
was
a
seminary
for
young
women,
probably
at
that
time
one
of
the
best
in
the
country,
certainly
second
to
none
in
the
West.
It
had
originated
about
a
dozen
years
before,
in
a
plan
for
Western
collegiate
education,
organized
by
Yale
College
graduates.
It
was
thought
that
women
as
well
as
men
ought
to
share
in
the
benefits
of
such
a
plan,
and
the
result
was
Monticello
Seminary.
The
good
man
whose
wealth
had
made
the
institution
a
possibility
lived
in
the
neighborhood.
Its
trustees
were
of
the
best
type
of
pioneer
manhood,
and
its
pupils
came
from
all
parts
of
the
South
and
West.
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