Lydia's Walk with Horse

November 20 2017
Lydia Peyton
Written By Lydia Peyton - November 20 2017
November 04 2017
Lydia Peyton
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Written By Lydia Peyton - November 04 2017
"Around here Guy Fawkes is known as Pope's Day. The men from the North end and the men from the South end used to parade figures of the pope, the devil, political figures, and apparently, it always ended up in chaos with the men fighting. I miss the sights of blazing bonfires in Bristol. When I was younger, I'd make an effigy out of paper and straw of Guy himself and then we'd collect pennies. I got two shillings one year! It's not as fun around here. I do miss England."
June 28 2017
Frances Cain
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Written By Frances Cain - June 28 2017
"I overheard a man telling Father that Girls should be taught the basic skills that were considered important to their future lives as wives and mothers. That hardly seems fair. What if I don’t want to marry? What if I wanted to be a shopkeeper? I’d sell fine lace and hand sew buttons on pretty dresses!"
See Your Georgian Girl, Lydia’s lovely lace sleeves.
November 29 2016
David Cain
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Written By David Cain - November 29 2016
Oh bother!
August 05 2015
David Cain
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Written By David Cain - August 05 2015
A fabulous picture for you to colour in this holiday, why not get creative and design Lydia a pretty new dress!
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April 06 2015
David Cain
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Written By David Cain - April 06 2015
The Easter Bunny is thought to have been introduced to America by German immigrants with their tradition of an egg-laying hare whom they called the Osterhase. Children were encouraged to leave out carrots for the hare and make nests in which the hare could to lay brightly coloured eggs. Maybe this was something else new that Lydia encountered when her family moved to Boston?..
March 19 2015
David Cain
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Written By David Cain - March 19 2015
There was a great fire in Boston, which started from smaller fires on 17th and 18th March 1760, the year Lydia arrived there. It lasted for 3 days and destroyed 349 homes and left more than a thousand people homeless. Many businesses were also destroyed with a lady shopkeeper named Alice Quick losing over one thousand pounds of personal and business property and belongings. 10 ships were destroyed in the harbor.
It started in the central market area of the town in the early morning and the wind spread it quickly through the mainly wooden buildings towards the wharves. Remarkably though, no one was killed in the fire.
Sources:
http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=86
http://web.csulb.edu/projects/elizabethmurray/EM/psfire1760.html
December 16 2014
David Cain
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Written By David Cain - December 16 2014
I did not realize that Christmas used to be illegal here in Boston! How very strange it is to hear such things, but until 1681 you could be fined as much as five shillings for showing one’s holiday spirit. Even now it isn’t even a holiday here and people seem intent on continuing their work – although my parents will no longer be fined if they wish to mark the day in some way, thank goodness!
We do at least have a new Christmas hymn to sing at Church called Hymn on the Nativity, which has been written by a fellow Englishman, and will remind me of the carols we used to sing in Bristol..
November 28 2014
Richard E
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Written By Richard E - November 28 2014
I wonder if I can wear my new party dress and whom I will meet there?
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