Darrow School - Shaker Post Yearbook (New Lebanon, NY)

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THE PEG BOARD Volume 4 New Lebanon, N. Y., June, 1936 Number I I EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief Art Editor L. SUMNER RICHARDS, JR. WINTHROP B. Col-'HN EUGENE S. WEST, Associate Editor Associate Editor Associate Editor DONALD MCCONAUGHY, JR. DOUGLAS H. WEST BUSINESS BOARD CHARLES H. RHODES, II, Business Mgr. fIss't Business Mgrs. WINTHROP ENDICOTT CHARLES T. DAVENPORT Published four times a year by the students of The Lebanon School, New Lebanon, N. Y. Price of subscription 51.00 per year. Single copy of Shaker Number 5oc. For advertising rates address Business Manager. . EDITORIAL Plans and dreams have been fulfilled with the release of this issue of the Peg Board. It has always been the desire of the students and faculty to devote an edition of our publication to an account of the Shakers who lived here in this valley before us. We have been brought into close Contact with these remarkable people, and we have come to have a high regard for their whole- some simplicity, their high moral code, and their many talents. . R All around us there is evidence of their existence here in the past. We live in what was their main dwelling house, surrounded by the numerous other buildings which they erected, and all these buildings and grounds are rich in examples of Shaker craftsmanship. Today we value immensely the interest shown towards us by those Shakers who still live in the valley. When negotiations were being made for the establishing of this school, their honest and generous methods of transacting the sale of the land and buildings now in the school'S possession clearly showed the founders that the Shakers would always be behind them. As we look back on the four years since then, we realize that we have had their full cooperation and staunch support and also tliat their unsellish interest has meant much in the success of the school. It is because of their gen- erosity and loyalty that we wish to dedicate this number to them to assure them that as long,as we are fortunate enough to have them with us theirs will be our most treasured friendship. The Prize Essays REALIZING that the preparation of articles for this Shaker Number of the Peg Board would give the writers valuable training in composition and'in methods of research, the editors wished to offer every boy in school the opportunity to make a literary contribution. However, 20

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1936 The Peg Board Thus ended the New Lebanon persecutions. They were typical ofwhat Mother Ann suffered throughout most of her career as a religious reformerg and the fortitude with which she faced her tormenters in New Lebanon was equally typical of her character. Whether we agree with Ann Lee's religious views or not, we cannot fail to admire her magnificent courage. S. P. C., Yr. Explanation of the Map For this explanation the editors are indebted to Mr. Austin D. Haight, who drew the original sketch after extensive researeh in collaboration with Miss Olive Hand ey' Pittjield. The map was retraeed and prepared-for reproduetion hy Winthrop B. Cofn 136. I. The location of George Darrow's house, where the Meeting House now stands. 2. The bridge where the mob tried to overturn Ann Lee's carriage. 3. The rock against which James Whittaker was thrown. 4. The home of Eleazer Grant. 5. Joshua Bigelow's Tavern. 6. Charles McCarthy's House. 7. Nathan Farrington's House. NOTE :-In reaching this point Ann Iee traveled past the present location of the Episcopal Church and on down to a point near the present home of Allen Phelps. Here the road turned to the East and ran under the mountain and then north until it Joined the present road at Lebanon S rings, near the home of Mrs. Henry Rice. Thence it follow- ed the present line to the road known as the short hilli' to the Columbia Spring. Grant's house stood just west of the present home of Miss Matilda Gray on what was then known as the Indian Trail. There was no road at that time between Allen Phelps's house and where this trail joined the present road, now known as East Street. This point was near the house on the present road, now known as The Frank Myers House . From there it ran down to the present R.R. Station, westerly, past the old Mott Graveyard, crossed West Street and aassed the present Temple Farm, down the valley and over the hill past The Sanford Farm, now owned by rs. Chris. Crape, thence past the Carr Farm formerly owned by I. Royce and now by W. Gordon Cox: thence on westerly past the Horatio N. Hand Farm and then, bearing to the south, joining the present State Highway at the John Adams Farm. From here the road ran almost west to the tavern of Joshua Bigelow, which is unqu tionably the place spoken of in the testimonials as the Inn kept by one, Ranny. NOTE :-The home of Charles McCarthy stood about a quarter of a mile farther to the west, and is probably the same house located in a grant from George IV as being not far distant from where the Rensselaer County line crosses the Kinderhook Creek. Here Ann Lee remained over night. NOTE:-After leaving Farrington's Ann Lee seems to have followed the Indian trail that led from Grant's house and ran, through the village now known as East Nassau, on to Albany. Many sections of this road have long since been discontinued. ' are ii. T By Courtesy of Dr. Edward D. Andrews THE MUSEUM THE FIRST MEETING HOUSE The building on the left was the ,first Shaker Meeting House. It stood onthe :ite of the present Meeting H ouse and was moved when that building was erected in 1824. Remodeled as it appears in the out on the right, it became the Shaker Seed House, now our Museum. 19

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The Peg Board since the limitation of space would not permit the printing of all articles submitted, it was decided to divide the boys not on the Peg Board staff into five groups, assign a separate research project to each group, and give a prize-a one year's subscription to the Peg Board-to each boy who wrote the best paper on his particular project. The plan met with an enthusiastic reception on the part of the school. Accordingly a member of the staff was assigned to each group as a leader to work in cooperation with the English master, Mr. Cowardin. Then such material as could be obtained in the short time available was mimeographed and copies were distributed among the contestants for use as notes. Many of the competitors, moreover, were so deeply interested that they secured additional notes on their own initiative. When the papers were ready, they were collected by the respective group leaders. Thereupon a meeting of the staff was called, and each leader read his papers, designating them by numbers rather than by the names of the authors. Voting then by numbers in order to insure the greatest ossible fairness, the other editors selected the winners and awarded the prizes. The names ot? those who won and of those who received honorable mention are given below. The articles follow, printed in the same order: GROUP I Boys ry' the Lower Middle Year Winner SINCLAIR DANEORTH HAR'F Honorable Mention DU'r'roN SMITH GROUP II Boys of the Middle Year Winner SAMUEL PENDLETON COWARDIN, III Honorable Mention THOMAS MCLEAN GRIFFIN GROUP III Boys fy' the Upper Middle Year Winner NATHANIEL EDWARD GRIFFIN Honorable Mention JAMES OLMs'rEAD HALL GROUP IV Boy.: 4 the Upper Middle Year Winner HENRY MARSHALL COLVIN Honorable Mention RICHARD RICE HENYAN GROUP V Boy: cythe Senior Year Winner WILLIAM BRADFORD HALL Honorable Mention MURDOCK TOWER PEMBERTON, JR. 21