April’s Lady

           

           Kingsportisaquaintoldtown,hearkingbacktoearlyColonialdays,andwrappedinitsancientatmosphere,assomefineolddameingarmentsfashionedlikethoseofheryouth.Hereandthereitsproutsoutintomodernity,butatheartitisstillunspoiled;itisfullofcuriousrelics,andhaloedbytheromanceofmanylegendsofthepast.Onceitwasamerefrontierstationonthefringeofthewilderness,andthosewerethedayswhenIndianskeptlifefrombeingmonotonoustothesettlers.ThenitgrewtobeaboneofcontentionbetweentheBritishandtheFrench,beingoccupiednowbytheoneandnowbytheother,emergingfromeachoccupationwithsomefreshscarofbattlingnationsbrandedonit.

           Ithasinitsparkamartellotower,autographedalloverbytourists,adismantledoldFrenchfortonthehillsbeyondthetown,andseveralantiquatedcannoninitspublicsquares.Ithasotherhistoricspotsalso,whichmaybehuntedoutbythecurious,andnoneismorequaintanddelightfulthanOldSt.John’sCemeteryattheverycoreofthetown,withstreetsofquiet,old-timehousesontwosides,andbusy,bustling,modernthoroughfaresontheothers.EverycitizenofKingsportfeelsathrillofpossessiveprideinOldSt.John’s,for,ifhebeofanypretensionsatall,hehasanancestorburiedthere,withaqueer,crookedslabathishead,orelsesprawlingprotectivelyoverthegrave,onwhichallthemainfactsofhishistoryarerecorded.Forthemostpartnogreatartorskillwaslavishedonthoseoldtombstones.

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