Word: pemaquid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...people in whom we can readily believe, and about whose subsequent fate we should be glad to hear more. Mr. L. Grandgent's "In old New England" is, finally, as its title indicates, a historical narrative, based, I suppose, upon the traditions of the Maine town of Pemaquid, where the scene is laid. The general conditions under which the English settlers lived during the French and Indian Wars are interestingly sketched, and the account of a sudden attack upon the colonists fort has real dramatic force, skillfully manipulated so as to lead to a conflict of motives in the breast...