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Ladies and Gentlemen of Dansville NY Play Ball in Afternoons

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Tags Females
Location Western New York
City/State/Country: Dansville, NY, United States
Age of Players Adult
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[A] (p. 51).  A letter the Rev. Abram Pryor [?], Editor, Central Reformer, McGrawville, NY wrote to his readers on May 8th from Glen Haven: "The patients instead of being querulous and hypochondriacal, are as cheerful and good natured a company of men and women as one often meets.  You can exercise your taste in physical amusements.  They range from jumping the rope or a dance, to rowing a boat or walking five miles before breakfast.  If you do not like to play ball, you can pitch quoits or hunt partridges . . . or fish for salmon trout."

[B] The entry for Wednesday, March 30, 1859 says:  "Our ladies and gentlemen amuse themselves much by ball playing afternoons, and by playing, talking and singing, evenings."

 

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[A] The Letter Box, Vol. 1, No. 6  (15 July 1858).   in: Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., The Letter-Box. Vols 1 and 2, 1858-9, (Dansville, NY: M. W. Simmons, 1859), 51.

[B] "Doings Current," The Letter Box, Vol. 2, No. 5  (May 1859).   in: Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., The Letter-Box. Vols 1 and 2, 1858-9, (Dansville, NY: M. W. Simmons, 1859), 37.

 

Comment

Dansville NY (2010 population about 4700) is about 40 miles S of Rochester in western NY. Per the Dansville Historical Society, the facility in question was a water cure (hydropathy) center called Our Home on the Hillside.

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