Identifier: americanannualof3334newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1919 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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g all sorts of newrecords, will someone take a moment to do this stunt? Up the river at Tarrytown is another Sleepy Hollow—theoriginal and famous one—and there within sight of the OldDutch Church that he immortalized lies the gentle humorist who diedIn the ripe Indian summer of his days. Ah, Washington Irving, would you have us laugh or sigh aswe stand by your grave? We must do one ol* the other, forthe heart is full. You are here in the midst of your glory.Around you are the memories of by-gone d&ys, the sturdypeople of whose deeds you wrote, the country you celebrated,the legends you created. The Headless Horfeeman rides onand on without ever leaving the hollow but d short distancefrom where you rest. Down Sunnyside Lane Still stands yourhome, kept by reverent hands. In the villagfe is the churchwhere you were once a warden. Those streets often echoedto your footstep. To no one else might Stevensons epitaphbe more fittingly applied— j Here he lies where he longed to be. 94
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GRAVE OF FRANKLIN PIERCECONCORD, N. H. GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR. 95 Another grave of pleasant memories is that of Cooper inChrist Churchyard, Cooperstown. It is the old-fashioned flatstone kind, raised from the ground only a foot or so, andbeside him sleeps his wife and near at hand are relatives andfriends. Cooper, too, is at home in his own land— Hard by, the storied lake, and all around.His loved Otsego hills. Ghosts pervade the whole place—ghosts called into being byCooper himself. Tom Hutter still lives at Muskrat Castle,Chingatchgook still visits Council Rock, and after dark it issaid that the shadowy forms of Leatherstocking, the greatscout, and Uncas, last of the Mohicans, linger side by side attheir creators grave. But we will not be able to get them inour picture. While we are still in York State we may find profit in a visitto Auburn, not to see its ugly prison, but to trace the footstepsof one of Americas really great statesmen, William H. Seward.In distant Oregon I saw h

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