EIGHTEENTH PILGRIMAGE Wednesday, September 11, 1935 Daylight Saving Time Basket Lunches PLAN OF PILGRIMAGE In planning the Pilgrimage of 1935 the committee has aimed to emphasize the arts of peace rather than military and political events. To this end the plan provides a visit to the site of a former school, which in the early years of the nineteenth century rendered a great service to the cause of education, and it includes visits to two houses (one built about 1800 and the other about 1831) that are examples of good domestic architecture of the time of their erection. Also, markers at three historic sites will be unveiled, a collection of American-made glass shown and valuable eighteenth century records placed on exhibition. ROUTE OF PILGRIMAGE 10:45 A. M. Pilgrms will assemble in front of the Brick Meeting House on the Dover Road in the Town of Washington. The Meeting House is about half a mile east of the monument that marks the four corners at South M illbrook. 10 :45-11 :30 A. M. Pilgrims will gather in the Brick Meeting House. The President, Mr. W. Willis Reese, will preside. Miss Helen W. Reynolds will tell the story of Nine Partners Patent, Nine Partners IVIeeting, and Nine Partners School. 11:30 A. M. Pilgrims will adjourn to the road side, where Miss Caroline E. Haviland will unveil
bus was given by this pilgrimage both to the members of the society and to the resident community in behalf of an active interest in local history. One unfortunate circumstance was the fact that the president of the society, Mr. Reese, was detained at home by illness. Miss Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, who had prepared a paper for the program in the Brick Meeting House was also ill and unable to be present but the paper was most acceptably read by Mr. Harry Harkness Flagler. A letter was read in the Brick Meeting House which, under date of September 9, 1935, bore greetings to the society from Mr. Clinton R. Tallcott of 78 Pinewoods avenue, Troy, N. Y., a greatgrandson of Joseph Tallcott, the founder of Nine Partners Boarding School. Where so many individuals joined together to further an event it is impossible to thank each one by name. The pilgrimage committee would therefore ask all who in any way aided it to believe that their kindness was appreciated. It is, however, fitting that the committee should offer grateful acknowledgement to Mr. Sidney Benham, custodian of the Brick Meeting House; to Miss Caroline E. Haviland and Mr. Alfred B. Maclay for hospitality in their homes; and finally to Mr. Harry Harkness Flagler, who in ways too numerous to mention helped ensure the success of the day as a whole and who organized a remarkable historical exhibit in connection with it. 20
