The Vineyard News – August 28, 1919

All 16 pages of the August 28th, 1919 edition of The Vineyard News, published in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.  Many great advertisements and articles.  TO SEE THE FULL PAPER (16 pgs) CLICK ON THE PAGE BELOW (opens in new window)

PDF Book: The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth

 

 

PDF Book: Witchcraft in Salem Village in 1692 (1892)

Written by Winfield S. Nevins.  PDF Book split into 2 parts – click on covers to launch PDF reader.

Matchbook – 1940’s-50’s Cock Horse Luncheons and Dinners

This video features a man reading a Cock Horse menu from the 1940’s – the back of the menu features the restaurant’s history.  (WARNING: snickering about name of restaurant in video – still a good find)  

Cock Horse?

“Cock Horse” can mean a high-spirited horse, and the additional horse to assist pulling a cart or carriage up a hill.  From the mid-sixteenth century it also meant a pretend Hobby horse or an adult’s knee. 

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Historian and Genealogist Lynda Ames remembers her grandmother reciting the old rhyme, Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross

Says Lynda, “You cross your legs and place your small child on your extended foot.  Holding their hands, you lift and lower your foot (in a riding motion) and recite to them”:

Ride a Cockhorse to Banbury Cross
To see a fine lady upon a fine horse
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes
She shall make music wherever she goes.

  

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The Village Blacksmith – Longfellow – click to read the PDF!