Field Notebook: Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Quebec, Vermont, Wisconsin. 1933, 1934
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July 11-1934 Queen Victoria, the largest miniature, and said it has cost $45,000 to paint. It is a double frame in solid gold. This Peabody Institute is in what was formerly called South Orono and Peabody, Mass. Then we returned to the post cemetery where the Peabody family is buried, including C.C. Mark's mother. Close by on the church were the Salem critics, one burned. The place was settled by a family buying many slaves from the West In- dians, and from them came the belief in witches. The Mark farm is on a hill side sur- rrounded a small marsh and flat land leading to the home of George Peabody. The two homes are less than 1/2 mile apart, and it is thus that Caleb Marks met Oraby Peabody. Read the book "John Mark, Pioneer" by George H. Lyman, 1930. This Mark is referred to by Caleb and who induced him to sell into land in Michigan. He went on to