.^December, 1910 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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Coachman's cottage at Naarden Farm 



A Naarden Farm cottage 



following summer. And agam, a farmer had a calf that the place realize unusually how charming a spot is theirs 



acted strangely, and concluded that it must be bewitched, and how necessary it is to guard it carefully. Thrift there 



and accordmg to the tradition of his time, he cut off a is in plenty, but no desire to outshine other villages in inno- 



portion of the calf's tail. The next day Granny Brown vation. Progress here takes the form of appreciating the 



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Porch of the coachman's cottage 



A South Salem well top 



Porch of a Naarden Farm cottage 



appeared in the village with one hand bandaged and a 

 finger gone. The farmer always believed that he had cut 

 off the witch's finger. 



But to return to the village of to-day. There is this 

 about South Salem to make the heart glad: The people of 



heritage of history and legend that has come down 

 to the town, from generation to generation, and its 

 present descendants are determined to keep intact the 

 atmosphere of quaintness, the old-fashioned charm of South 

 Salem. 



House of an old South Salem farmer 



One of the cottages at Naarden Farm 



