Word: blacksmith
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...Scarecrow," a four-act "tragedy of the ludicrous," is based on Hawthorne's "Feathertop," the scene lying in a small Massachusetts town, at the end of the seventeenth century. The first act opens in a blacksmith shop and the other three are at the home of Justice Merton...
...this sounds very serious, indeed, but the underlying tragedy of the theme comes to the surface only at intervals. The prevailing note is comedy, and there is much rich humor of character and situation. The first act, in the blacksmith shop of Goody Rickby, the witch, in a seventeenth century Massachusetts village, shows the creation and early training of the scarecrow, who, under the title of Lord Ravensbane, is sent into the world to avenge on Rachel, the daughter of Justice Merton, the wrong that the latter in his youth has inflicted on the witch. Attended by Dickon, "a Yankee...
This play, "a tragedy of the ludicrous," as Mr. MacKaye calls it, consists of four acts, the first of which is laid in a blacksmith shop. A small town in Massachusetts is the scene of the play, and the time the latter part of the seventeenth century...
...plains and mountains a chance to train hand and brain at the same time, while earning their way by work in the shops or on the farm. All of the 100 students in the school do manual work for five hours each day, the boys in the blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, or on the farm; the girls in the laundry, kitchen, or dairy. Last year the work of the students made the institute almost self-supporting. Like the George Junior Republic, after which it is modelled, it is a self-governing community, and only twice in its history...
...lately received from the estate of D. H. Storer M.D. '25, through Miss H. M. Storer, a collection of 245 copper coins. Among the rarities in this collection are a fine specimen of Swedish plate money and a "Granby copper." The Granby coppers were struck by an ingenious blacksmith in Granby, Conn., in 1737, and, being made of unalloyed copper, quickly became worn, and are therefore now of the greatest rarity...