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  • It’s Old Home Week!

    It’s Old Home Week!

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    Small towns in New England and the Mid-Atlantic lost population as westward migration and the lure of factory work drew young people away. Old Home Week attempted to lure them back.

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Nancy Beckworth Harris
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The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne were celebrated literary figures renowned for their timeless novels. Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights,” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,” reached the public, but other siblings never had the chance to make their mark on 19th century England. The Brontë’s lived and died in a time when disease and poverty spared no one the agony of the human condition.

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