ISBN: 9780217011532

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... certain who dwelt in laurel town I How the attractiveness of Laurel Town, its natural beauty, its people, the state''s young university, led my Father to purchase land for a home adjoining the city, I have told in foregoing pages. It was not then a town of the soft, quiet beauty of nowadays, but more rugged, more individual, possibly closer to the heart of things. Suffering even to martyrdom before and during the Civil War had graved its face with startling emphasis; it was a little city with its own physiognomy. North and south had sent together its people: southerners marked with strong personal sentiment, an unvarying consciousness of self, and a social view that sometimes suggested the eighteenth century we find in English books; the New England element, on the other hand, having its inevitable simplicity and directness. New England blood predominated, and especially affiliated with that from Ohio, Illinois and other western states and one or two generations removed from the Atlantic slope. New England characteristics were in the fore. Therefore, to sketch the folks of Lanrel Town as a body of unity and like color would not be true. The community was too newly gathered, too unlike in its elements, too nerve-fatigued by horrors of war; it was not yet closely enough knit by continuity of interests to have a general social spirit. Academic life which now stamps the town had not evolved. The university was a small institution struggling with legislature after legislature for its very breath, and with no appreciable influence on the social will. Still, even then Laurel Town was what a professor of Harvard University twenty years after told me he found it; A New England town set in a western environment. After our flight from the east, and we were established on ... Kate Stephens, Books, Biography and Memoir, Life at Laurel Town in Anglo-Saxon Kansas Books>Biography and Memoir This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Alumni association of the University of Kansas in 1920 in 264 pages; Subjects: Women; Laurel (Kan.); Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; History / General; Social Science / Women's Studies;<