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...South Coventry, Conn. last week, a crowd of 2,000 gathered in the meadows and lawns of an old homestead to honor Nathan Hale, the young patriot-spy of the American Revolution on the 200th anniversary of his birth. In a large circus tent near the old Hale house, greetings from President Eisenhower were read, and Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff praised Hale's bravery and sacrifice. Local churchwomen, dressed in the costumes of the Revolution, handed out coffee and cake, and the 20-piece Fife and Drum Corps from Stony Creek, in sleeveless red jackets, black leggings...
Latin at 5 a.m. When he was 14, in 1769, Nathan Hale and his older brother Enoch,* left the Coventry homestead and, riding horseback through the September countryside, reached Yale College, 60 miles away, in two days. At Yale young Nathan was a bright student and something of an athlete. The mark of his record broad jump was preserved on the college green for years (later, when he was in the Army, Hale astonished soldiers in his company by kicking a ball over the treetops of the Bowery...
Careening about his old stamping grounds in his home town of Appleton, Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy closed a deal to buy from his brother Howard the old McCarthy homestead, a 114-acre farm four miles out of town. Listed price: $25,000. Two days later, the Senator made a garbled promise to the home folks: "As long as I remain in Washington, I will not be a rubber stamp for any Administration, even if they deny Mrs. McCarthy invitations to the White House [TIME...
...father was Patrick McCarran, who left Ireland as a stowaway at 16, joined the First U.S. Dragoons, went to Nevada to fight Chief Winnemucca's Paiutes, and stayed on as a homestead rancher. His mother was Margaret Shea of County Cork, who came to Nevada as a domestic servant. From his parents young Patrick Anthony inherited a fighting spirit and a love of politics. In addition, he cultivated a trait not generally associated with the Irish: patience...
...first homesteader: Union Soldier Daniel Freeman, on Jan. 1, 1863. A few minutes after the law came into effect at midnight, he dragged a protesting land registrar from a New Year's Eve dance to file his claim at Beatrice, Neb., later built a log cabin for his family and planted 400 peach trees on his 160-acre quarter section. Typically, Interior has since reclaimed the claim. Now it's Homestead National Monument...