Caption: Convocation - 1896 (Forefathers' Convocation)
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II cabins which mark«<l the first 1 vnofPljrm wonder thai thai Bti i If 'I ih, <lmi and n the left f B tl nni uh v What II and then beyond, on M ^am -id m !• ddences. Across the street 1 lug tip :,»\cinor'fl ni"i i'»->111 • If home Ai the end of i lie Bti n structure which a rved for rl and and n aresl It, for obvious i isonf Stand ish. The accommodations seemed m planning was necessary. The comp into households so thai all w DI for. But, in a way they kn w not, tl in 'room. w«i • * liumbli Ih n lm?l n n u tl hill, I i I th< mi •• i % li**i m tli atn i of rind landd if iraU*d *ur provided •• ul o>m fcx •. I afl -h Four had dii i upon the \ reached th< barbor. Th< air young w fe f I; if.»rd only twenty-on< had been drowm I whil< h < .-away searching the site of their new bom< \i< th warm days of another summer nine husband- ami wiv ^ had found burial together. Five husbands h ; Ix- n left widowers and one wife a widow. But th uple> remained unbroken, and bul i\\ wei i 1 I uj D 1 to mourn some memb r of their families g m 1 children losl both parents, three others \\ ath rl and three more were motherless, T h e first ;ir ; ftv-on persons, exactly half their number, went to final rt>t and were laid together on Cole's Hill lose bj their homes, and iheir graves wei iii ited 1 •' the Indian- should learn how W ik the i ( n\ wa- a i d should fall upon and utterly destroj It. Vi»t, win i ih Mayflower returned i > Old England in il w« < r \pril da while they doubtless went i" ih hilltop* and with breaking hearts and tearful is l< h« ton's famous picture portrays to us, watch tl li w il- Ink below ihe eastern li n. not on them returned In her. I lily, bul heroli ilh and su u plrit of American Institutions had i i :,» th< N<w \v rid and the march of ontpln WAS not \ I backward and over the mu mil t<>th w iw&rd < When tin little compuii) i \\a in • iu,
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