Abstract

ONE aspect of the flowering of New England was the development of adult education. Particularly in the southern trio of states-as in the larger towns of New Yorkit played a role in social and intellectual life perhaps second only to that of the press and pulpit. When the townsmen and farmers of Haverhill, Massachusetts, read in Jeremiah Spofford's Essex Gazette of April 19, 1839, this sort of lyceum ad:

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