Record 86/5355 Catalog Record Archives Exhibit Page Home Search Description  A booklet of poems by Wallace Weed, the mailman poet, prepared for the Bicentennial. On the title page there is a copy of a painting of Wallace Weed as a mailman. It is divided into three sections with several poems in each section. First section: TOWN Poems: Marblehead, In Marblehead, The Old Burying Hill, Fort Sewall, The Old Tavern, The Old Lee Mansion, The Old Town House and Saint Michaele. Second section: LEGENDS Poems: Tom Bowen's Church, Parson Walton's Dole, Goodman Gatchell' Impiety, Red Bottomed Bats, Ye Cow-Lease Allotments, The Old Meeting-House Lean-To, The "Injun Claims," The Pinkies, The Loss of the Only Son, The Lost Heritage, The Star Witness, The Great Gale. Third Section: PEOPLE Poems: Black Joe, Jonny Quelch, Commodore Tucker's Visitor, The Screeching Woman, Old Wyman's Bargain, The Swine Law, Capt'n Bill, Old Di'mond, Flud Ireson, Sir Elkins, Old Mammy Redd,

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