The Rockport Journal, July 19, 1935

Article was typed as it was worded in the newspaper.

Massachusetts Paper Tells of Pioneer Village

EDITORIAL EXPRESSES IDEAS OF YOUNGER GENERATION ON PIONEER HARDSHIPS

Editorial of Saturday, July 13, 1935, in Worchester Daily Telegram, Worchester, Mass.

LINCOLNIAN LOG TOWN

Southern Indiana has just dedicated "The Lincoln Pioneer Village"—just the sort of log town that once was the home of a boy named Abraham Lincoln. When Abe Lincoln lived on the site of that village, near Rockport, not even stoves were common. Most cooking was done over a fireplace. Considerable cooking was done over an open fire. It was a generation of slow travel, by boat or by horse or by oxen. It was a generation of few comforts, of hard struggle.

Modern youngsters, visiting the Lincoln Pioneer Village with their parents, riding in automobiles over smooth highways, complaining perhaps of the food in country hotels, will look at the log cabins and wonder how people ever put up with them. And we have a terrible suspicion that not many of the children who express such wonderment will grow up to be as strong or as fine as Abraham Lincoln.