The story was geographically described in
our school readers of two centuries ago.
At Willamantic is a monument to Nathan Hale, the martyr spy of
the Revolution, who had his home here, as did also General Lyon,
killed at Eastport in the Revolutionary War. Here, too, was the
home of Jonathan Trumbull, one of the financiers of the
Revolution, and Commodore Swift, U. S. N. This town is widely
known as the home of Willamantic thread.
TWENTY-NINTH DAY - Providence to Newport.
THIRTIETH DAY - Newport to Plymouth via Fall River, Cape Cod and
Provincetown, staying at the Plymouth Rock Hotel.
THIRTY-SECOND, THIRTY-THIRD AND THIRTY-FOURTH DAYS - Plymouth to
Boston via the Shore Road.
THIRTY-FIFTH DAY - Boston to Portsmouth, N. H. Here was signed
the treaty which closed the Russo-Japanese War.
THIRTY-SIXTH DAY - Portsmouth to Crawford's Notch, via Portland,
Maine.
THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY - Crawford's Notch through Green mountains to
Lake Champlain.
THIRTY-EIGHTH DAY - Lake Champlain through Adirondacks to Lake
George Village.
THIRTY-NINTH AND FORTIETH DAYS - Among mountains and lakes.
FORTY-FIRST DAY - Lake George to Albany.
FORTY-SECOND DAY - Albany through Catskills to Mt. Tremper, where
we spent a most delightful evening at the Howland House.
FORTY-THIRD DAY - Mt. Tremper to Utica.
FORTY-FOURTH DAY - Utica and Trenton Falls to Syracuse. Spent the
night at the Mizpah hotel. This hotel is unique in that it is
run in connection with a Baptist church. The building is a
beautiful specimen of Gothic architecture. The surplus money is
used for the various church expenses. You may listen to the
noted Belgian organist while resting in your own room. This
undertaking has proven to be a success in numerous ways.
FORTY-FIFTH DAY - Syracuse to Lake Chautauqua via Jamestown.
FORTY-SIXTH DAY - Jamestown to Niagara Falls via Indian
reservations.
FORTY-SEVENTH AND FORTY-EIGHTH DAYS - Niagara Falls, via Albion,
Pa., to Ashtabula, Ohio.
FORTY-NINTH DAY - Ashtabula to Richmond, Ind.
It is to be sincerely hoped that all the youth of our land may
some day visit the nation's shrines and there drink deep from
the fountains of truth and patriotism which our worthy
forefathers have established. To follow the old Pilgrim trail,
to climb Bunker Hill Monument, to reverently tread the halls of
Mt. Vernon, to muse by the monuments at Valley Forge,
Gettysburg, and Arlington; to be thrilled with the grandeur and
power of our great nation while in Washington: and to behold the
unsurpassed beauty of the countless places of natural grandeur
our country affords would help to solve many of the serious
problems confronting our nation today.
End of See America First, by Orville O. Hiestand
