Word: arbella
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From the deck of the little 350-ton Arbella plowing westward through the angry Atlantic to the Massachusetts coast in 1630, John Winthrop preached a sermon that struck the theme of what America in all its future years would seek to be. "Wee shall be," Winthrop prophesied, "as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of all people are uppon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a byword through the world...
...stays with him as the imaginary presence from the American past we have know her to be all along; then he turns to face the very real and serious world of the twentieth century. The poem leads us through her child-marriage to Simon Bradstreet, her crossing on the Arbella in 1630, her writing, the birth of her first child, her bout with smallpox, her religious difficulties, the expulsion of Anne Hutchinson from the colony, and her later life, all over-shadowed by the image of an angry God and quivering with the rhythms of guilt and insecurity. What emerges...
...Call Me Salty." The Saltonstalls of New England are as prominent as their long noses and square jaws. They started being Boston Brahmins in 1630, when Sir Richard, a former lord mayor of London, arrived on the ship Arbella and founded what is now the Boston suburb of Watertown. Also on the Arbella was the Rev. George Phillips, forebear of the founder of Exeter, which in 1796 graduated, along with Daniel Webster, its first Saltonstall, Leverett, ancestor of the present U.S. Senator...
...headmasterly charm. A daily fixture on the playing fields of Exeter, he is famous for scrimmaging with the football team, skating with the hockey team, coaching the crew from his single shell on the Squamscott River. An avid sailor, he races off Cape Cod in his ancestrally named yawl Arbella. He may have slowed down a bit since 1961, when a flying hockey puck almost blinded one of his eyes, but he still plays tennis and beats 90% of the faculty...
...have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arbella 331 years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a new government on a new and perilous frontier...