MONTAGE VARIOUS SCENES FIRST MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
RAILROAD IN THE WORLD WITH VINTAGE LOCOMOTIVE PUSHING
OLD TIME PASSENGER CAR CARRYING VISITORS UP TRACKS TO
FOOT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON. VIEW OF NEW ENGLAND FROM
TOP. VARIOUS SCENIC VIEWS OF LAKES, FALLS.

CU PLYMOUTH ROCK WITH "1620" ENGRAVED ON IT.
BEAUTIFUL PORTICO SHELTERING THE ROCK. VISITORS ON
BALCONY INSIDE PORTICO LOOK DOWN ON ROCK.

VIEW OF OLD SALT WORKS WHERE SEA WIRE WAS EVAPORATED
IN SHALLOW PANS TO OBTAIN SALT. CU MAN RUNNING HANDS
THROUGH THE SHALLOW PANS. CU BED OF STONES USED TO
DRY FISH BEFORE SALTING.

PILGRIM FAMILY OF THREE, IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME EXIT
THATCHED ROOF HOUSE ON WAY TO GOVERNOR'S HOME WHICH
WAS USED FOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES. COSTUMED GOVERNOR
MEETS THEM AT DOOR. TYPICAL FLOWERS, HERBS FROM DAYS
GONE BY, STILL GROW IN FRONT OF HOUSE

HOUSE BUILT BY JOHN ALDEN WHO MARRIED PRISCILLA
MULLENS IN 1653, IN ONE OF FIRST ROMANCES OF PLYMOUTH
COLONY AT WHAT IS NOW DUCKSBURY, MASS. VIEW OF THE
ALDEN KITCHEN. CU TABLE SET WITH CRUDE WOODEN DISHES.
FIREPLACE WHICH WAS SOLE COOKING, BAKING IN PURITAN
HOMES.

PHARMACIST STIRS MEDICINES AS FEMALE CUSTOMER WAITS
AT COUNTER IN EARLY APOTHECARY SHOP

FISHING BOATS AT PICTURESQUE GLOUCHESTER. FISHERMEN
UNLOADING BUCKETS OF FISH FROM BOATS AS SEA GULLS FLY
AROUND. FISHERMAN IN RUBBER OVERALLS, HELPS LIFT HUGE
BUCKET OF FISH FROM HOLD OF BOAT AS WINCH DOES REST.
SEA GULLS FIGHT FOR SCRAPS OF FISH ON GROUND.

VARIOUS VIEWS "DERBY WHARF" IN SALEM, MASS, PROBABLY
OF GREATER SIGNIFICANCE IN AMERICAN WORLD TRADE THAN
ANY COLONIAL LANDMARK. HERE RICHARD DERBY BUILT
LUCRATIVE TRADE WITH EUROPE.

OLD "TANUEL WILL" HALL WHERE, "TAXATION WITHOUT
REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY" WAS CRY OF PATRIOTS THAT
RANG THROUGH THE HALL, KNOWN AS "CRADLE OF LIBERTY".
BELL TOWER ON HALL.

SEVERAL VIEWS HOME OF PAUL REVERE IN BOSTON. OLD
"NORTH CHURCH" WHICH ALSO PLAYED PART IN REVERE'S
RIDE. CHURCH STEEPLE FROM WHICH LANTERNS WERE
DISPLAYED, SIGNALLING ADVANCE OF BRITISH TROOPS ON
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD.

MONTAGE "REVERE" ON BORROWED HORSE RIDES AT NIGHT
THROUGH COUNTRYSIDE TO SPREAD ALARM. (REENACTMENT)

NORTH BRIDGE IN CONCORD, WHERE FIRST ARMED RESISTANCE
TO BRITISH TYRANNY, THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR FOR
INDEPENDENCE. POET EMERSON WROTE, "HERE ONCE THE
EMBATTLED FARMERS STOOD, AND FIRED THE SHOT HEARD
AROUND THE WORLD" .

BUNKER HILL MONUMENT IN CHARLESTON, COMMEMORATE
ANOTHER EARLY BATTLE OF REVOLUTION.

GOVERNOR'S FOOT GUARD, FOUNDED IN 1775, WITH RED
COATS, TALL BEAVER HEADWEAR, LIKE BRITISH PALACE
GUARD, PARADE IN NEW HAVEN'S HISTORIC PUBLIC GREEN.

VARIOUS SCENES WHALING SHIP "CHARLES W. MORGAN" ALSO
BERTHED AT MYSTIC. VIEW OF THREE MASTS WITH RIGGING
U.S. FRIGATE "CONSTITUTION", ("OLD IRONSIDE") STILL
FLOATS AT BOSTON'S NAVY YARD. LONG ROW OF DECK
CANNONS. HELM OF SHIP.

"CONNECTICUT HALL" BUILDING IS STILL IN USE AT
HARVARD. MONTAGE OTHER BUILDINGS AT SCHOOL.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S WEATHER BEATEN "HOUSE OF SEVEN
GABLES" HE IMMORTALIZED IN HIS NOVEL OF SAME NAME,
STANDS ON EDGE OF SALEM'S HARBOR

CU CHILD IN NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC SCHOOL READING POEM,
"MARY'S LAMB", WHICH BECAME PROBABLY THE MOST WIDELY
KNOWN CHILDREN'S VERSES COMPOSED BY JOHN ROLLSTONE IN
1798 WHEN TRUE INCIDENTS OF POEM TOOK PLACE.

YOUNG "MARY" SKIPS DOWN DIRT ROAD TOWARDS CAMERA, IS
FOLLOWED BY WHITE LAMB. CHILDREN SIT ON STOOP OF
SCHOOLHOUSE, WHICH WAS EVENTUALLY PURCHASED BY MR.,
MRS. HENRY FORD IN 1927, PET AND CODDLE MARY'S LAMB.

REENACTMENT GEORGE WASHINGTON EXITING STAGECOACH AT
WAYSIDE INN. LAFAYETTE ALSO STOPPED THERE IN 1894.

CHILDREN, BACK TO CAMERA, LISTEN TO TEACHER STANDING
NEXT TO BUST OF LONGFELLOW.