homestead-nook

Updated: June 2, 2025

And then he was but a simple yeoman, a tiller of the soil; one who must have loved the sea, however, for he moved nearer and nearer towards it from Agawam through Wenham woods, until the close of the seventeenth century found his descendants my own great-great-grandfather's family planted in a romantic homestead-nook on a hillside, overlooking wide gray spaces of the bay at the part of Beverly known as "The Farms."

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)