Addresses Delivered At The Celebration Of The 250th Anniversary Of The Village And Town Of Southampton

Author : Henry P. Hedges
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390826494
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Addresses Delivered at the Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Village and Town of Southampton, June 12th, 1890 (Classic Reprint) written by Henry P. Hedges and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Addresses Delivered at the Celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Village and Town of Southampton, June 12th, 1890 It had been a difficult problem for the committee to decide where to hold the celebration. The church would be too small, a tent in a storm would be an insufficient protection. Fortunately the large building, 45x120 feet, then erected and being finished, on the south side of Job's Lane, promised ac commodation for nearly two thousand people, and was chosen and arranged and magnificently decorated therefor. But even that spacious hall would have proved entirely inadequate but for the ominous thunder and light showers in the early morn ing and the overcast, threatening look of the heavens during most of the day, preventing a large attendance from remote districts. In the morning and evening the crowd was barely sheltered. In the afternoon not over two-thirds could enter the already packed building. The interest of the people of the town in this historic cele bration grew in intensity until its conclusion. The commit tee of arrangements labored assiduously to make it the suc cess which public opinion pronounced it to be. In this they were efficiently aided by the hearty co-operation of their townsmen and of the ladies. The organizing genius of Dr. E. G. Howard was never more conspicuous or more success ful than in the leadership of the 125 voices that rolled in bar mony as one in the music of this historic day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.