CHAPTER II 

 In Old Tidewater Virginia. 



We moved to Tidewater Virginia, the 

 home of Captain John Smith, the oldest 

 settlement in America and yet the most 

 primitive, the most beautiful and least 

 known spot in our continent — a bit of wild 

 nature slumbering beside the pathway of the 

 rushing life of the Atlantic seaboard. 



Here we realized the first dream of life, a 

 stately Colonial home two hundred years 

 old, called Elmington Manor, situa'ed on the 

 shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Its ivory 

 pillars flash their welcome from both sides of 

 the house through the shadows of huge trees 

 that shade its wide lawn. 



The farm has five hundred acres, three 

 hundred and fifty under cultivation and one 



