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French in Michigan French Settlements
While there is always a strong temptation to dwell upon the domestic ways of our predecessors, this has been done so well by others who have prepared papers for the Society, that there is little room for adding to their work. Many pleasant memories come freshly before us, of charming households and hospitable homes, of delightful summer and winter holidays and festivals, of bounteous gardens and orchards, of noisy crowds on the water and on the shore, gathering in the silvery shoals of whitefish by daylight, and the glaring, blazing fires in the night-time;— of long wedding trains in pony carts and caleches, and of cariole vans on the smooth ice of Detroit river and up the windings of the Rouge, worthy of the rhymes of a modern Pindar. But this is not the time or place to indulge in these reminiscences — and yet they are inseparable from the kindly and worthy people who first opened this land to culture, and whose memory should always be esteemed by those who have succeeded to their inheritance.
Early Michigan
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