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84, UNFOLDING YEARS The following spring (1926) we went to Chicago. This was entirely a vacation trip and made largely on my sister Mary's account, for she as rapidly failing. That was our last meeting with her for she died the next December. We mourned her loss for she has been very near and dear to us all. Our oldest sister, Clara Anet, had passed away earlier in the same year. In October we took another vacation and went up to Philadelphia. There we visited the Sesqui-Centennial and other places of historic interest. We went on to New York for a few days and from there to Atlantic City. This was a very enjoyable trip and changed my ideas of Atlantic City. From then on for many years we managed to spend at least one week each year in that famous resort, and learned to love it. It had been one of my early dreams to visit Boston and in May 1927 this dream came true. Emma retired that spring and so was free to go with me with unlimited time at her disposal. As I frequently had some official leave on these trips my annual leave stretched out considerably. I always brought back something to help in my work for that was ever in my thoughts. In Boston we took a room at the Statler Hotel, quite new at that time, and very grand it seemed to us ! We took our meals elsewhere, generally at one of Child's Restaurants. We had a radio in our room which had been one of its attractions for us. While there we heard of Lindberg's "Lone Flight to Paris" and of the floods which were sweeping the Mississippi Valley. One evening we heard Mr. Herbert Hoover broadcasting news of the flood and the rescue work of which he had charge. We spent two days at the Perkins Institution, now located at Watertown Mass., by invitation of the Superintendent, Doctor Edward E. Allen. We visited many places of historic interest such as Plymouth Rock, Concord and Salem, What a thrill for me to be in Paul Revere's old home and to climb the secret stairway in the "House of Seven Gables!" I loved Boston Common with its cool quite, its flowers and beautiful lake where the swans floated. Still in Boston on Memorial Day we went to Mount Auburn Cemetery where I thought my Aunt
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84, UNFOLDING YEARS The following spring (1926) we went to Chicago. This was entirely a vacation trip and made largely on my sister Mary's account, for she as rapidly failing. That was our last meeting with her for she died the next December. We mourned her loss for she has been very near and dear to us all. Our oldest sister, Clara Anet, had passed away earlier in the same year. In October we took another vacation and went up to Philadelphia. There we visited the Sesqui-Centennial and other places of historic interest. We went on to New York for a few days and from there to Atlantic City. This was a very enjoyable trip and changed my ideas of Atlantic City. From then on for many years we managed to spend at least one week each year in that famous resort, and learned to love it. It had been one of my early dreams to visit Boston and in May 1927 this dream came true. Emma retired that spring and so was free to go with me with unlimited time at her disposal. As I frequently had some official leave on these trips my annual leave stretched out considerably. I always brought back something to help in my work for that was ever in my thoughts. In Boston we took a room at the Statler Hotel, quite new at that time, and very grand it seemed to us ! We took our meals elsewhere, generally at one of Child's Restaurants. We had a radio in our room which had been one of its attractions for us. While there we heard of Lindberg's "Lone Flight to Paris" and of the floods which were sweeping the Mississippi Valley. One evening we heard Mr. Herbert Hoover broadcasting news of the flood and the rescue work of which he had charge. We spent two days at the Perkins Institution, now located at Watertown Mass., by invitation of the Superintendent, Doctor Edward E. Allen. We visited many places of historic interest such as Plymouth Rock, Concord and Salem, What a thrill for me to be in Paul Revere's old home and to climb the secret stairway in the "House of Seven Gables!" I loved Boston Common with its cool quite, its flowers and beautiful lake where the swans floated. Still in Boston on Memorial Day we went to Mount Auburn Cemetery where I thought my Aunt
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