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Famous Days in the Century of Invention
In 1891 when Harriet Lewis wrote just before her grandmother's annual visit: "We have something in Portland this year that really will surprise you, Grandma," all the family laughed over her grandmother's answer. "If you mean the electric cars which I have been reading about in the Press," so her grandmother's letter ran, "remember that I have already seen street cars running up and down hill in San Francisco without any horses to draw them, and that it won't be any more surprising to see them running all alone in Portland, even if it is electricity this time which makes them go." "Can't astonish Grandma, can we?" said Harriet's father, smiling. It certainly was hard to do so. Grandma had always been a traveler. She was born in Bath, Maine, in the days when Maine was famous for its ship building, and Maine sailing vessels went all around the world. Her father had been a sea captain and Grandma had been to China with him before she was eighteen; her husband also had been [Pg 139]a sea captain and she had been around the world twice with him. Grandma had seen so much and was always so interested in what was going on in the world that when she went to Portland to visit her oldest son the family there used to say jokingly: ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 46150
Author: Fickett, M. Grace (Mary Grace)
Release Date: Jun 30, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English
Contributor (Author): Stone, Gertrude L. (Gertrude Lincoln)
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