Montague Center in 1907
“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.”
— Edward Pearson Pressey, in his book History of Montague (Mass.): A Typical Puritan Town (1910)
“Circle Round “ (encaustic, acrylic, cardboard, paper, wood panel, rusty bicycle wheel), by Sue Katz, an artist living in the Pioneer Valley area of western Massachusetts. Her Web site is suekatzart.com. She is a member of newenglandwax.com
The Pioneer Valley (part of the Connecticut River Valley) from space, with Springfield toward the bottom of the photo and Northampton-Amherst toward the top.
The front entrance to The Bookmill, in Montague, Mass., in the Pioneer Valley
“The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six resolutions: 1. We approve of the plan for a Continental Congress September 1, at Philadelphia. 2. We urge the disuse of India teas and British goods. 3. We will act for the suppression of pedlers and petty chapmen (supposably vendors of dutiable wares). 4. And work to promote American manufacturing. 5. We ought to relieve Boston. 6. We appoint the 14th day of July, a day of humiliation and prayer.”
From Edward Pearson Pressey’s History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town
Montague Center in 1907
Town of Montague seal
“The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six resolutions: 1. We approve of the plan for a Continental Congress September 1, at Philadelphia. 2. We urge the disuse of India teas and British goods. 3. We will act for the suppression of pedlers and petty chapmen (supposably vendors of dutiable wares). 4. And work to promote American manufacturing. 5. We ought to relieve Boston. 6. We appoint the 14th day of July, a day of humiliation and prayer.”
― Edward Pearson Pressey, in History of Montague {Mass.}; A Typical Puritan Town
