Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Threads of Grey and Gold
HE proverbial good resolutions Of the first of January which are usually forgotten the next day, the watch services in the churches, and the tin horns in the city streets, are about the only formali ties connected with the American New Year The Pilgrim fathers took no note Of the day, save in this prosaic record: We went to work betimes; but one Judge Sewall writes With no small pride Of the blast of trumpets which was sounded under his Window, on the morning of January Ist, 1697.
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