Livermore Falls High School - Banner Yearbook (Livermore Falls, ME)

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THE BANNER 25 eff' SHADOW! GR XNDELRS T yyas a yyeary dull yyrnter s afternoon O ca rcnally large flakes of snovy floated lazrly out of a leadened sky dovyn to a sleepy cold yyorld Th en' ct of the atmosphere and of reading a feyy eoncludrng chapters on the Lrfe of Washrnvton had put me rn no mood to study my Fren h les on for the follovyrnf cay Surely thrs yyasnt a dav meant for study but one rn yyhrch to escap from the commonplace realrtres of the present and los ont lf 'rm ng the slradoyyy grandeurs of the or Retr rtrnff tr' my room yyhere the atmo phfre yy 'rs eyen more somber I 'attempted to rrrc my lesson B ore t yyas 'rlf frnr htd hoyyever rnd that not yery con screntrou ly I felt drowsy so puttrng the bcok asrde I lay doyyn Ah' Hoyy soft the bel felt and hoyy good rt seemed to relax for a feyy m ments Why be co rcerned oyer pre ent cl ffrcultres and dutre 'P Why not be som b .ry else for IHQIBIICE' Washrngton Irynrv' In thrs frame of mrnd I fell to thrnkrnff of my fam ly ped gree Mv great Great great great grandfather on my mother s olde fought rn the French and Eng'rsh yyars Durrnv the campargn rn Quebec rn yyhrch General Wolfe yyas yrctorrous thrs ancestor yy as one of th general s body guard and yy hen General Wolfe yyfr mortally yy ountl d Syly ester Norton xf gaye hrm some yyater to dunk Hoyy I enyy lnm' But I should be glad to be one of hrs descendants Hovy brave those men must have been to dare capture by Indrans to face other oyer vyhelmrng odds and Journey through the vyrlds to capture a fort held by the French at Quebec I really yyrsh I mrght perform such a feat All that I can do rs rmagrne but that 1 often vyorth vynrle The sun rs ttrng behrnd a blue rrdge of rollrng hrlls In the valleys rt rs alreadv tvyr lrght and the loyyrng of the cattle at the oats can be heard drstrnct'y A chapel bell rs rrng rng t llrng of the close of another day and tht unmrstalsable vorce of the yyhrp poor yyrll rrvtr Hovy solemn the St Lawrence sem ms '1 rt ell tens rn the fadrne lrght of day It yyrll soon be dark up here on the plyrns of Ab alram and yye must brave another of tht ancrent batt'e fields On thrs large plarn ab ut three hundred feet aboye the St Layy renee rryer yyas fought a drcrsrye battle be yyeen the Englrsh and F' ench The bones of many of those braye men ot 1709 rest be rreath thr sorl eyen the cannone hfrye not b en moy ed from ther assrftned statrons Under the monument yyhrcn stands apart from the others are the remarns of that cour aeeous general Wolfe Besrrle hrrn IS 1 yycll 0 u I J I TT 1 1 F - ' , , :T L: f 14 - if- 'E 4 . J. . .Avi r .'.. v . by ' I . -A ' L4 y 1 , v . ' . e e A . ' - i. v V, . C 5: .' 3 I , wr. ' . 1 N.. . V. ' . . A. ' M I C ' ' V -S L: vv ' . ' n .. S . I v v' ' U asv I . o s . ' x ' ' Q ' '- t '- pt tv-4 L w I r .TE ' D JA Q. . . V . I Vg- 4 V 1 ' AIA . .' .- ,. .L . .-A , -, .. C f ' ' 9 ' A. .v K pn-y 2 'T . et' ' i h. X ' , ' 2 ' ' - '- ' 'rg - v I ' '-2 r - - comes fr'om the alder' bushes down by the r' I ' ' . . ' ' - -1 ' f'51 ' ' ' ' ' '. l L , - i. . . -' i- . . K' A. ' Q ' r ' ' fs- r' . , ' 4 ' ' i ' 5 L Qs. ' .' 3- r ' r - . ' . SES I ww - ' M . A. ' - -' O 3 ' I r l '- Af I I I .1 U ' v V ' A 1 1 7 ' . : . 5 . - . , . - Y Q ' f X. . . A . - 4 - . rr M ' ' ' ' . -' . , .' D Y 'S A. : I . .. C . I ' ' ' ' Q , e ' ' 1' . ' . A. V' .' .h 5. . -L V. E - - ' ' Ai is C -I ,ry J- . 3: A , . . . . - . C .- vc . h. . 9 Nw v L. . , . N R F- r 1 l . A- ' ' r C '-, '

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THE BANNER corered when the monument was erected b cause General Wolfe wa burr 'i at the rerr spot where he dred besrde the well As th bodr guard burred htm d d the curfew t ll the knell of partrng dar or the soldrers hear the loud crr of then actrng general Stand' The grounds rou own mx brat s' Wrll re grre rt up to slares9 Wrll re look to greener graresq etc I lore to thrnk of that beautrful poem whrch Wo'fe r peated as he crossed th St Lawrence The curfew toll the knell of partrng day The lowrng herds wrnd slowly oer the lta The ploughman homeward plods h's weary wav And leaves the world to darkne s and to me Beneath those rugged elms that yew trees hade Where heares 'he turf rn manr a moulderrng heap Each rn hrs narrow cel for er er lard The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep rmagrnatron a fittrng descrrptron of the Plarns of Abraham or the Herghts of Quebec May there be more of the shadowr grandeurs of the past for me' Rockwood Berry 36 EARLY HISTORY OF LIVERMORE FALI S F absorblng rnt rest rs the storr surrounu rng the orrgrn of our localrty yet how few know the real truth of changes that these old hrlls and rallers hare seen' It was the French and Indran War that was the basrc cause of our own begrnnrng Thrs ma5 seem a far eachrng statement but at the close of the war three men Samuel Lrr and George Bad cock petrtroned the Court of Sessrons 'now the House of Representatnesr on behalf of srxtw men tor a land g ant for remuneratron lor therr seruces durrng the war At first ther were gn en a tract of land rn Conrre I1 cut but because of quarrels the grant was wrthdrawn Tlls was rn 1770 A rtar later the e same men madf the same request of the Court of Sessrous Thrs trm ther recelred a grant rn the Drstrrct of Marne but ther had ermore Leonard Wrllrams to complr wrth certarn rerr strrct rules The were as follow That the Grante s wrthln seren rears settle srxty Famrlres rn saru townshrp burld a House for the publrc W r shrp of God and settle a learned Protestant Munster and lav out one srxtr fourth part for the nrst ettled Mrnrster one srxtr fourth part for the Mrnrstrr one snttr fourth part for the Use of Schools and one srxtr fourth part for the use of Hart ard Colleg forerer The petrtroners were rnstructed to locate tlns grant of land rn some of the unapproprrat d lands rn th Provrnce of Marne to the ast ward of Saco Rrver adjorr lllg to ome other former grant Actlng for the srrttr partrtroners and wrth full authorrty Samuel Lrvel more and Leonard Wrllrams appornted as executrve ofli ers Lreutenant Elrgah Lrver mor and Elrsha Har rlngton who proc eded wrth the establrsh ment of the clarms of the grant Thrs p ace they finally reached and lard out by mean, of ra lng and carrylng a long chaln Cons Jer me the equrpm nt thrs surre was rely good though not exact Thrs wa called the Frrst durrng September and O tober 1772 Thrs was presented to the Proprretors at a me tlnv held rn Waltham on November 11 1772 The expense of thrs surver was 2113 7s 8d and was pard at the above mentroned me tlnff On Aprrl 30 1773 a party of four led by Thomas Frsh left Boston on the sloop Sally for Falmouth lnow Portlandb They were bound for Oxford Royal as they called th new townshrp Leavrng Falmouth thev started overland through New Glouce ter Lrttle Andro Coggin and Sylvester tnow Tur nerr where they reached Oxford Royal rLrv ermorel on the erghteenth day of May Here a camp was burlt whrch later was abandon d trll after the Revolutron In 1779 Lreut Elrjah Lrrermore wrth hrs famrly came to Grand Camp They w re the first actual settlers of the town of Lrrer m re Other settlers arrrved tll about srvitr h me teads had b en taken rn thrs rrcrnrtr Thtrt 15 no rehable rtcord of the ordtr 111 wlrrch the first ettltrs crme aft r th first rhr t or four famrl lv Durrng the e rears of hardshrps or the settlers the Indlans were rerx lrrendlr though the terrltorr lxrnt. on 26 ' . , - if - I S- - -' ' . V M Q . D.. I.: '- '- s let ' -' ' ' . ' -in, 'A ' . ' ' . O , . . L ' . V ' ' ' . V- . . i N , A v . . , A . ' ' X' ' - V ' ' F . - ', v 3 . . .'-- ' . A . ' ' . v . ' . ' . - ' -1 Q . f.. A . ' . . . L . . 3 ' - ' e ' ' e : - lr ,. ' . v ' - f ' ' 1' ff r J . - -. l 1 V' 1' - l- ' - r ' D -H Y . ,. A 1 9 4 - , 9 Y. 1 I sz ' . '. K ' V - ' rx., r V . -1 . . . V , Q V . 1 2' ' . -- ' ' ' ' -A ' 1 v v- 1 , . v W 1 .. an - 1 - .1 . ' ' . ' 3 .. ' This fragment Of Chai Serene Glegy is to my Division because it was all that was surveyed . . . . M . . . , . C . ' L D v . . .' A 9 ' S . c Q. U . ' ' 9 . ' I A. , . . . 1- D v . . . . Y-I , . V . 9 - v A I . ' V - , ' Q ' , - r 1' 4 I . . 1 4 . v A . 4 . .. , I ve . ,5' 3 . ' ' r . ' ' ' - ' M ' I ' ' . . .- , h . ' ,- ', 'X s ' ' Q 1 ' ' ' ' . L , ,, c . . ,. , A. .. ,.L Q Af ,.A ' .? . . ,. ' is A, C X -. I. K .LA ' ip.. ..' ,Q . , . M Y. .' .4 ' ' Q V. . ' V L . l ' I. 1' . it .5 l ' I. .1 ,. ' .' ' ' A' . .. .. , .' ., ,' ,