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new posts and better lighting was given. These lights 
were replaced several years afterwards by up-to-date 
ones that are an ornament to the town. 
The school gardens for many years have flourished, 
the amount of work done being governed by the teacher 
in charge. During school months they are generally in 
a flourishing condition, but during the long vacations are 
apt to fail, not of neglect, but because the children’s in- 
terest is diverted from school activities. 
The children in turn have home gardens. Many 
times one finds, the children’s garden plot carefully tended 
and filled with not only blossoming plants, but healthy 
vegetables as well. 
Manual training for the boys and sewing for the 
girls have been introduced through this society and 
has resulted in doing much good. Many a lad through 
this work has laid a good foundation for later years and 
shows what can be done if one is willing to try. 
The good to the streets is not the only benefit that 
has resulted from continuous action. It has brought about 
a good fellowship, an interest in a common cause that 
has debarred politics, and religion, all meeting on com- 
mon grounds. ‘he Wenham of olden days and that of to- 
day show what has been done to develop an ordinary 
village to one with the sentiment of improvement that is 
sweeping over the land today. 
Cape Ann as a Tourist’s Haven 
Dogtown Commons and the Whale’s Jaw 
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OGTOWN COMMONS are best seen on a_ stormy 
day when the clouds hang low. Upon a sunny day 
the place is beautiful to be sure; it is beauty sleeping. 
But when the winds blow and the clouds roll up over- 
head then every rock awakes from slumber, the silent trees 
begin to bend and rustle, the lazy mild-eyed cattle become 
animated and wild and toss their heads in defiance to the 
breezes; in short the whole place pulsates with life. 
It is a wild place, this Dogtown and at times very 
desolate, but the very wildness and solitude only add to 
its beauty. An acrea of 10 or 12 square miles of—mostly 
rocks, its only use is as a grazing ground for cattle and 
even the grass is scanity. But when God creates a place 
of little use to man’s material well-being, how often He 
endows that place with such beauty that it stirs the soul. 
There is no loss without some gain and although the ages 
of man will probably never find a very practical use for 
Dogtown, still in the hundreds of years to come how many 
footsteps will cross the moor, how many souls will thank 
God for making here a place so wild, so materially use- 
Jess that man should find it impracticable to spoil its 
wealth. 
No other place in America is like Dogtown and only 
one place in the world closely resembles it, this the Stone- 
henge of England. Dogtown Commons are, in fact, called 
the “Stonehenge of America.” The Stonehenge of Eng- 
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land was the creation of a strange tribe of religious fana- 
tics who wished to worship their strange gods in their 
curious temples. The “Stonehenge of America” was 
created when the ice sheet of thousands of centuries ago 
melted, thus its creation is purely accidental, as it were, 
but the rocks left here by that ice sheet are pillars of a 
temple such as man will never build to worship in, the pil- 
lars of a temple in which one feels no restrictions. 
There are several roads and paths to the commons. 
If one is to start from Gloucester perhaps the shortest 
way is to take an Annisquam car and go to Gee avenue 
in Riverdale, which will lead directly onto the commons. 
From Annisquam there is a path leading from Goose 
Cove. One may also follow the line of the Boston and 
Maine R. R. tracks from the Gloucester station to a point 
below the stone bridge from which the commons are easily 
accessable. Or, if one wishes to enjoy a walk through 
the woods, there are two pathways from Rockport which 
are very pleasant. One begins at “Squam” Hill and is fol- 
lowed for about two miles and a half, keeping always to 
the left. This path enters Dogtown near Whale’s Jaw. 
The other path commences on the hill back of the rail- 
road station. This is a very beautiful route to follow in 
that it brings us near Poole’s Hill, the highest point on 
Cape Ann, from which on a clear day it is possible for 
one to see from the coast of Maine to the shore south of 
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