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<\/a><\/p>\nLovecraft visited a few years later and wrote of it…<\/p>\n [1933]<\/p>\n “Among the novelties at Salem was a perfect reconstruction of the original pioneer settlement of 1626\u201330, with the crude shelters, wigwams, huts, & cottages which preceded the building of actual houses of European size, pattern, & solidity. Of course no originals of these rude domiciles survive, but accurate scholarship has been able to fashion pretty definite facsimiles from detailed contemporary accounts. The restored village is situate in a park at the harbour\u2019s edge, amidst a landskip made to look as much as possible like the primal topography of Salem. Not only are the early huts represented, but typical industries like blacksmith-shops, salt works, fish-drying outfits, saw-pits, & the like are faithfully shewn. The whole forms the clearest & most vivid presentation I have ever seen of the very first stage of New-England life, & ought to help anyone to reestablish the true ancestral orientation which these disorder\u2019d times so gravely disturb. <\/p>\n [1933]<\/p>\n “… the climax [of Salem] was the splendid reproduction of the pioneer Salem settlement of 1626 et seq., carefully constructed & laid out in Forest River Park. It consists of a generous plot of ground at the harbour’s edge, painstakingly landscaped & covered with absolutely perfect duplicates of the very earliest huts & houses – dwellings of a sort now utterly vanished. All the early industries are also reproduced – there being such things as an ancient saw-pit, black-smith shop, salt-works, brick-plant, fish-drying outfit, & so on. Nothing else that I have ever seen gives one so good a picture of the rough pioneer life led during the first half-decade of New England colonisation.”<\/p>\n [1934]<\/p>\n “The lore of ‘yarbs’ [herb-lore] is a definite element in the colour of early America, & one of the salient features of the reproduced pioneer village in Salem is a garden where all the traditional species are cultivated, so that the visitor may see them both growing, & hung up on walls & rafters to dry.”<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n