Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
Page 101
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August 7 1920. Left New Haven this morning and got to Lenox Hotel by 5 P.M. Raymond Reginald called and we had dinner together. August 8-1920. Reginald called with his machine and at 9.30 A.M. we are off to visit Plymouth, We went by way of Quincy, Charlestown, Marsh-field, Newbury, Kingston to Plymouth. The rock itself at Plymouth on which the Pilgrim Fathers are said to have landed is a small granite eratic and today probably weighs less than 5 tons. In front of the rocks are the docks (2) also small affairs. There is nothing special about Plymouth. The monument to the Pilgrim Fathers is an old monument and not modernity. The four relief carving in carriage marble are the feet of the monument and 2 of them are very fine. The monument stands on the highest sand dune.