Chippenhook was the home of Judge Theophilus Harrington, known for his trenchant reply to an irate slave-owner in a runaway slave ...case. Judge Harrington declared that the owner's claim to the slave was defective. The owner indignantly demanded to know what was lacking in his legally sound claim. The Judge exploded, 'A bill of sale, sir, from God Almighty!'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On our streets it is the sight of a totally unknown face or figure which arrests the attention, rather than, as in big cities, the... strangeness of occasionally seeing someone you know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he Congregational minister in a neighboring town definitely stated that 'the same spirit which drove the herd of swine into the... sea drove the Baptists into the water, and that they were hurried along by the devil until the rite was performed.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We realize that we are laggards from the past century, still living in what Marx kindly calls 'the idiocy of rural life,' and we k...now that our rural life is like that of the past, not like that of much of the present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In former years it was said that at three o'clock in the afternoon all sober persons were rounded up and herded off the grounds, a...s undesirable. The tradition of insobriety is still carefully preserved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »