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MARY BAKER EDDY MUSEUM and Historic Sites QUARTERLY NEWS MARY BAKER EDDY MUSEUM and Historic Sites VOL. 7, NO.4 PUBLISHED BY LONGYEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY Watchman! The Pleasant View Years Look backward ; how much THE PLEASANT VIEW GALLERY was Through Mrs. Eddy's generosity Pleas· has been won! opened in June, 1970 as a permanent ant Street was later macadamized - the Look round; how much is exhibit in the Mary Baker Eddy Museum. first street in Concord to be so treated. yet to win! It was designed to recall the setting and This sparked a road development pro­ The watches of the night activities of Mary Baker Eddy's Concord, gram which was to transform the little are done! The watches of the day begin. Samuel Longfellow Sixth Annual Musicale A WARM RECEPTION was accorded two young musicians who presented an unusual program at our Sixth Annual Musicale on December 13, 1970. Larry Groce, well known at this time for his recordings of Mrs. Eddy's hymns and for his own original an<!_ ~irit~d contempo­ rary songs, was at Longyear with his guitar. For nearly an hour he entertained an audience of over two hundred listeners. John Near, who gave two informal pro­ grams of organ music at Longyear on Sunday afternoons in November, accom­ panied Christmas hymns and carols sung by the audience. The musicales are held each year at Christmas time for Members of the Friends MRS . EDDY RETURNING TO PLEASANT VIEW at the end of her afternoon drive. of Longyear. This year there were so many in attendance that it was necessary New Hampshire home , Pleasant View, city of Concord. On entering the Museum to present the program at two o'clock from June 18, 1892 to January 26, 1908. Gallery the first mural to the left shows and again at five. From numerous existing snapshots and a rear view of the grounds looking across formal pictures of Pleasant View made fields of hay to the pond, immortalized Bow Bog Rededicated during these years, a few were selected in Mrs. Eddy's "Pond and Purpose," for the gallery and enlarged to mural first published in The Christian Science AN EVENT of interest to many Christian dimensions for the walls. A surprising Journal for August, 1892. A small mural Scientists was the rededication on No­ three-dimensional quality was achieved elsewhere in the gallery shows George vember 22, 1970 of the Bow Bog Meeting in some of the enlargements, notably House at Bow, New Hampshire, following Kinter, one of Mrs. Eddy's secretaries, the complete restoration of the little in the familiar view of Mrs. Eddy in her and Mrs. Kinter with their niece, Grace, church. Mr s. Eddy remembered this victoria returning from her afternoon enjoying a ride on the pond, all three church in 1902 by presenting a beauti­ drive. The victoria is halted at the en­ properly attired for the occasion. On the fully toned bell for its belfry. trance of the grounds from Pleasant right of the path leading to the pond Street. Calvin Frye is on the box guiding shown in the large mural, men are haying. Quarterly News Winter 1970-1971 Princess and Dolly, two of Mrs. Eddy's The hay has been cut, raked, and cocked © Longyear Foundation 1971 Vol. 7, No. 4 horses. Pleasant Street in the background into small mounds. On one ideal hay­ Subscription, $3.00 Annually is a rough country road and beyond are making day about the time the day's Sent without charge to Friends ·Of Longyear fields and an orchard - a farming area. work was done, an unexpected shower 109 Eddy continued these annual gifts of shoes to the needy. Another mural in the Gallery depicts the simple arched entrance - still standing at Pleasant View - through which passed members of the British nobility, eminent ...----.. clergymen and jurists, prominent business men, and hundreds of simple folk, all coming to serve Mrs. Eddy or to bring REAR GROUNDS messages of gratitude for healing. OF THE ESTATE Mrs. Eddy endeared herself to the peo­ showing the pond, ple of Concord and its officials through haying fields and the State Fair grounds her sincere interest and support of the in the distance. community. She fostered city improve _­ ments and encouraged local merchants and manufacturers. Examples of articles produced and sold by them are on exhi­ bition in the Gallery. Today there are swans on a lake in White's Park in Con­ cord. Could it be that these are descend­ ants of a pair originally given to the city by Mrs. Eddy in 1893? The city appreciated Mrs. Eddy's con­ threatened. The men continued their feat with uncommon interest in 1900 tributions and influence in the commu­ work until all the hay was in, without and also in 1901 , saying that it "was a nity. When she moved from Concord to any being touched by the rain. The next beautiful example of the power of mind Chestnut Hill in 1908, a group of Wona­ day Mrs. Eddy complimented them and over matter."l lancet Club members - prominent in the said, "That is just the way father used to The first year of the Fair, Mrs. Eddy Concord community - estimated what do his haying." was accompanied by Judge and Mrs. Mrs. Eddy's stay of twenty years among Beyond the limits of Pleasant View Septimus J. Hanna, and in 1901 by lay the Concord State Fair grounds.-MF&--J.udge-.-and-M.fs..- WillJa.m G. Ewmg.- Gn- Eddy had taken a keen interest in the both occasions they were met at the Fair from its inception and had contrib- entrance to the Fair, their presence an- uted to the beautification of buildings nounced through a megaphone, and they and grounds. The Fair was a momentous were then escorted around the grounds event to Concord and Mrs. Eddy was by a mounted guard amid the applause especially invited to attend, not only in of the throng. The carriage halted near 1900 but also in 1901. In 1901 some the grandstand where in 1900 Mrs. Eddy 15,000 people came to view the racing, had enjoyed watching the trotting horses. midway attractions, and other events. In 1901 two trains bringing 600 Christian Among the chief attractions was Oscar Scientists arrived from Boston. After Norin, the high-diver, who plunged from visiting Christian Science Hall the group a tower eighty-seven feet high into a went to the Fair grounds where Mrs. small pool. Mrs. Eddy had watched the Eddy had reserved a block of seats for them. In his greeting and address in 1901 , the Governor of New Hampshire praised Mrs. Eddy as a noble, good woman and spoke of her contribution to the beauti­ fication of the Fair and of her generous gift on the previous day - children's free day - of certificates for shoes to be given out to needy children. The next day THE DARING DIVER NORIN at the Concord State Fair. 206 pairs of shoes were fitted to these children by W. A. Thompson, a trusted them had brought financially to Co n­ dealer in Concord. For a number of years cord.2 The most conservative figures in­ when the Fair was no longer held, Mrs. cluded: MR. AND MRS. GEORGE KINTER AND THEIR NIECE, GRACE, enjoy a ride on the 1. The Christian Science Journal, v. 19, 2. Mary Baker Eddy, A Life Size Por­ pond. p. 411. trait, by Lyman P. Powell, p. 21 3. 110 The Christian Science Church - Mrs. Eddy's Gift $225,000 Charitable donations 25 ,000 For good roads 25,000 Miscellaneous gifts and con­ tributions 25,000 Pleasant View estate 40,000 Household expenditures 100,000 Income from special privileges granted to Concord manufac­ turers and business men 40,000 Granite contracts for Christian Science churches obtained be­ cause of Mrs. Eddy's residence and through her influence 1,000,000 Other known expenditures 90,000 Total $1,570,000 All those that came to visit at Pleasant View felt the spirit of hospitality which prevailed there. This is reflected in an­ other small mural showing Calvin Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. William P. McKenzie and their son, Stuart, and Miss Sarah Clark conversing on the rear verandah. Among visitors from a distance was Mrs. Sue Harper MRS. PAMELlA LEONARD. MRS. LIDA Mims of Atlanta, Georgia. In her diary, the entrance to Pleasant View. she wrote of Pleasant View) "Mrs. Eddy four in the early days, and as many as watch an airplane meet at Squantum, lives now in religious retirement in a twenty in later years. A maid might have in which he was much interested. Several lovely but unostentatious home charac­ been a successful teacher in a city; an members of the household accompanied terized by a dainty elegance and extreme experienced-business executive might be him in the family automobile. erderliness. A perfeetion of lamlseape serving as one of Mrs. Eqdy's secretaries, Life at PleasantYiew was a de-dicated gardening is the chief beauty of this a concert singer or a former pastor of a one and the home life had a "most home - great stretches of grassy lawn, large church might be given a metaphy­ striking natural ten dency upwar d" as fragrant meadow, rosebeds, a small lake, sical assignment. They worked in a demo­ characterized by Joseph Mann, who left a playing fountain, set in a background cratic spirit and each met· a specific need a busy practice in Christian Science to of hills and low mountain ranges, make of Mrs. Eddy, lending support to their .
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