A FIELD DAY AT ANNISQUAM 



Wednesday, July 16, 1884. 



A goodly number of the members and friends of the 

 Institute spent a very pleasant day at this favorite seaside 

 resort on the northern side of Cape Ann. The train made 

 its usual prompt run to Gloucester; at the station, car- 

 riages were in waiting and soon the party were safely 

 conveyed to the place of rendezvous, which was the post- 

 office at Annisquam. This building appears to be the 

 centre of the social life of the village. Not only do the 

 U. S. mails arrive and depart with governmental precision, 

 but the usual varieties of a country store are dispensed 

 with courtesy and despatch ; in the rear is a small hall 

 in which our baskets, wraps, etc., were deposited and 

 where the noonday lunch was laid. In the second story 

 is a larger hall where the afternoon session was held. 



The party spent the forenoon in rambling about the 

 place. Some visited the Laboratory, established by Prof. 

 A. Hyatt, an institution designed to cultivate the study of 

 zoology, especially the marine ; further reference to what 

 was seen may be gleaned from Mr. Kingsley's remarks 

 at the meeting. Some visited " Sunset rock " upon an em- 

 inence near by, which commands an admirable view of the 

 broad Ipswich Bay, Plum Island with its nine miles of 

 length, Agamenticus mountain in Maine and, occasionally, 

 a glimpse of the Isle of Shoals. Some went to Dogtown, 

 about two miles distant, which, many years ago, contained 

 some forty houses, occupied largely by men who served 

 their country during the war of 1812, and afterwards long 

 continued to be the abode of the widows and orphans, 

 especially of those who died on the battle field or who had 

 gone down at sea ; the last of them are still remembered 



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