The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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persuaded by the builders to begin her passage from the
land to the sea. With seeming timidity she glided slowly
down the ways,-grew more courageous, and proceeded
faster,--and then, with one swift plunge and a shudder
from stem to stern, entered her native element, amid the
shouts of the on-lookers.
The names of the Duxbury people were very suggestive.
Bradford, Alden, Brewster, Soule, Weston, Sprague, Winsor, Drew, Sampson,--almost all my pupils and acquaintances in town bore some one of these honored names. Of
the twenty subscribers to the civil compact signed in the
cabin of the Mayflower, November, 1620, who survived the
first fatal winter, seven of them became inhabitants of Duxbury, and three of them, Elder Brewster, Miles Standish,
and John Alden, made the town famous. The memory of
Miles Standish is indissolubly linked with Duxbury, and
"Captain's Hill," towering above his early residence four
hundred yards from the sea, and eighteen hundred feet
above its level, now bears a monument to his memory.
Never was there a pleasanter community in which to
make one's home than Duxbury, as I knew it. The disintegration of the town had not then fairly set in, and it
would be difficult to find a more hospitable, intelligent, social, and cultivated people in any New England town to-day.
College presidents and professors, clergymen, librarians,
business men of prominence, artists, musicians, teachers, reformers, and leaders of society have been sent out into the
world since then by the town of Duxbury, and it has not
surprised me to see them taking the positions to which they
were ordained from birth.. For I felt the brainy qualities
of the people, before I had been a resident of IDuxbury a
month.
The women were superior housekeepers, skilled in all
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