Thanksgiving at Plymouth and Letty Moore’s Path to Sunny Slope
In a Brookdale setting, Letty Moore endures family strain during Thanksgiving and winter. She helps her ailing mother while facing social expectations. Mr Langdon enters her life proposing Sunny Slope as a women's retreat, leading to engagement and a shared future in summers for college girls and a new marriage.
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Brookdale
N. H
John
Letty
Sam
Mr. Moore
Massachusetts
Longhill
Stranger
Moore
Sunny Slopé Farm
Langdon
Sunny Slope
Mr. Langdon
Boston Globe
A Wing and a Wife
Letty Moore endures a tense morning on the farm as her father scolds her for delays and Betty the mare’s corn theft. Letty handles chores and school ambitions while Sam jokes about keeping house, and the family navigates illness and duty before Thanksgiving.
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Letty Moore
Letty
Betty Burns
Farmer Moore
Betty
Mr. Moore
Sam
Goodby
John
Thanksgiving Dinner 1750 Menu and Table Setup
Describes a colonial feast with guests using knives instead of forks, sitting on chests, dining from pewter platters, and a board table on wooden supports. Details courses include pike with pudding, venison, giblet pie, roast beef, turkey with oyster pudding, tansy, hare, woodcocks, pumpkin pie, and serving order across chairs and benches.
Orchid scented insult or luckless kiss in verse lines
A fragment from the New York Press features a speaker describing a close, conflicted moment with flirtation and a promise not to call, hinting at manners and desire in a dated prose-poem mood. The piece centers on lips, a winelike fragrance, and a longing spurned by prudence.
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New York Press
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