The Pilgrims and their monument (1911) (14801307263)

Identifier: pilgrimstheirmon00carpe (find matches)
Title: The Pilgrims and their monument
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Carpenter, Edmund J. (Edmund Janes), 1845-1924
Subjects: Provincetown, Mass. Pilgrim monument Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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his, of such importance andsignificance as to be honored by the presence of theeminent Chief Magistrate of the nation, it perhaps isnot altogether improper that a natiye and citizen ofCape Cod should be assigned a part. For this is theCape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association. Here atProvincetown this association had its origin in 1892.And it was in the historic cape town of Brewster, ata meeting of the Pilgrim Club, a local organization,held on May 1, 1901, that the beloved president ofthis association. Captain Sears, first suggested en-larging the scope of the work of the Provincetownassociation and raising funds to build the monumentwe dedicate to-day; and it was the earnestness andzeal and hearty support of the members of this littlePilgrim Club of Brewster which gave to CaptainSears and his colleagues the courage and the faith tobegin the task which in so short and unprecedenteda time has resulted in the building of this magnificentmemorial. All honor to the Pilgrim Club of Brew- 244
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MISS BARBARA HOYT UNVEILING THE DEDICATIONTABLET OF THE PILGRIM MONUMENT (MRS. TAFTIN BACKGROUND). THE DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT ster, whose loyalty and interest were one of the mainsupports of this movement in its early and strugglingdays. From that meeting in the little library atBrewster nine years ago, at which there were presentonly four others besides the members of the PilgrimClub, went out the appeal for aid, first to the sonsand daughters of the cape who have remained athome, upon whose shoulders have fallen the mantlesof the fathers, and generously and eagerly in responsethey gave of their frugal means. Next the call wentforth to that other and larger class, those who havegone forth from their native Cape Cod homes andmade brave names for themselves in the centers ofcommerce and industry of this great country, andthey, too, gave generously and eagerly of their moreabundant means. After such a beginning, well mightthe association ask the Commonwealth to do its part;and nobly