The Old Peabody Pew

<p>1905. Another heartwarming tale from the American educator and writer famous for her children's works including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. </p><p><br></p><p>The story begins: Edgewood like all the other villages along the banks of the Saco is full of sunny slopes and leafy hollows. </p><p><br></p><p>There are little rounded green-clad hillocks that might like their scriptural sisters skip with joy; and there are grand rocky hills tufted with gaunt pine trees-these leading the eye to the splendid heights of a neighbor State where snow-crowned peaks tower in the blue distance sweeping the horizon in a long line of majesty.</p>