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I wanted to create a sandbox page where I could work on articles and check formatting without messing up a public wikipedia page. I have been using text files on my computer but a sandbox page would let me check formatting as well. betsythedevine (talk) 14:03, 14 January 2011 (UTC) Cleaning the sandbox! Time to make User talk:Betsythedevine/SandboxArchive. betsythedevine (talk) 21:07, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Tory Row and Brattle Street
Tory Row Brattle Street

Other useful stuff:
 * Template:Infobox_street
 * WikiProject_U.S._Streets


 * Found some good stuff in 1896 book edited by Arthur Gilman but written by several authors:


 * From pp 2-3 "The original New Town — or what we might perhaps call "Oldest Cambridge" — was comprised between Harvard Square and the river, from Holyoke Street on the east to Brattle Square on the west. By 1635, the streets now called Mount Auburn, Winthrop, South, Holyoke, Dunster, and Boylston had come into existence within these limits. The northern frontier street, upon the site of Harvard Street and Harvard Square, was called Braintree Street. A road upon the site of the lower end of Brattle Street with Brattle Square was known as Creek Lane, and it was continued in a southeasterly sweep into Boylston Street by Marsh Lane, afterwards called Eliot Street. On the north side of Braintree Street, opposite Dunster, and thence eastward about as far as opposite the site of Linden, stood a row of six houses, and at their back was the ancient forest. Through this forest ran the trail or path from Charlestown to Watertown, nearly coinciding with the crooked line Kirkland- Mason- Brattle -Elmwood- Mount Auburn; this was the first highway from the seaboard into the inland country. The palisaded wall, with its ditch, for defense against Indians and wolves, started at Windmill Hill, by the present site of Ash Street, and ran along the northern side of the present Common into what is now Jarvis Field, and perhaps beyond." This quote comes from a chapter by John Fiske called "The Beginnings of Cambridge", which covers pp 1 - 13.
 * from pp 8 - 12, same author: "In May, 1638, this change of name was sanctioned by the General Court, and in March, 1639, the name of Harvard was given to the college. For the college yard was taken the land between the Charlestown highway (Kirkland Street) and Braintree Street, the name of which was changed to Harvard Street. A fence and gate between the college yard and the graveyard, near the site of the present flagstaff, served to keep out of the village the cattle that grazed on the Common. Across Harvard Street (near Linden) was the east gate of the town; and where the palisade crossed the Watertown highway (Brattle Street) at Ash Street was the west gate."
 * from pp 26 - 28: "On the 3d of .Tidy, General Washington assumed command of the army in Cambridge. His first headquarters were in the President's House, still standing in the college yard, on Massachusetts Avenue, and sometimes called the Wadsworth House. After a few days they were transferred to the Vassall House on Brattle Street, afterwards called the Craigie House, but now generally spoken of as the Longfellow House.....During the thirty years which we have just considered, while there had been but little change in the population of the town, there had been a social development which has attracted considerable attention. Brattle Street as it now runs was open from Brattle Square nearly to Mount Auburn, and the property bordering upon it was owned by wealthy loyalists. This has given rise to the title, " Tory Row," by which their beautiful houses which are still standing have since been known. The picture of the social life of the inmates of these homes, as it has been handed down to us, is charming in the extreme. Nearly all of them passed into the hands of the Committee of Correspondence, and the revenue derived from them was appropriated for public service. Some of these estates were ultimately confiscated, but others were restored to the families of their former owners. The town was opposed to such returns, and, May 5, 1783, instructed its representative to vote against them.......General Reidesel was quartered in the Sewall House, sometimes called the Lechmere House from a former owner. A part of this house still stands at the western corner of Reidesel Avenue and Brattle Street. It was while her husband was quartered there that Madame Reidesel gained the knowledge that enabled her to describe, in her letters, life in " Tory Row" before the war began. "Never have I chanced," she says, " upon such an agreeable situation." This section is "Cambridge Town, 1750-1846" By Andrew McFarland Davis, pp 14 - 34.
 * From "Life In Cambridge Town" By Thomas Wentworth Higginson .pp 35 - 42, which covers his reminiscences of boyhood in the early 1800s: "Going north from my father's house, there were near it the Holmes House and one or two smaller houses; up "the Concord Road," now Massachusetts Avenue, there were but few; the Common was unfenced until 1830; up Brattle Street there were only the old houses of Tory Row and one or two late additions. On the south side of Brattle Street there was not a house from Hawthorn Street to Elmwood Avenue; all was meadow-land and orchards. Mount Auburn Street was merely "the back road to Mount Auburn," with a delightful bathing place at Simond's Hill, behind what is now the hospital, — an eminence afterwards carted away by the city and now utterly vanished. "
 * Another good source from GBooks, 1801 history by Abiel Holmes 1801

Printed by Samuel Hall, in Cornhill, Boston http://books.google.com/books?id=oEYVAAAAYAAJ
 * "On the road leading to Watertown, there are several elegant seats, which attract the notice, and delight the eye, of the traveller. One of these seats, now owned by Mr. Andrew Craigie, was the place of General Washington's residence, while he was with the American army at Cambridge. It is generally conceded, that this town eminently combines the tranquillity of philosophic solitude, with the choicest pleasures and advantages of refined society." page 6
 * From 1877 history of Cambridge: History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630-1877

By Lucius Robinson Paige. H. O. Houghton and Company, 1877 pp 12 - 16
 * "The "Path from Charlestown to Watertown " was probably travelled before the New Town was selected as a place for residence; and it may properly be regarded as the most ancient highway in Cambridge. Its general direction was through Kirkland, Mason, and Brattle streets, Elmwood Avenue, and Mount Auburn Street. The " Town" and all the grounds originally impaled were on the southeasterly side of this path."
 * "The "highway to Watertown " extended from Brattle Square through Brattle Street to Mason Street; and thence was identical with the " Path from Charlestown to Watertown." From this highway three others diverged southerly: one, to the ox-marsh, passing near the site of the Brattle Mansion-house; one to Windmill-hill, now Ash Street; and one to Watertown marsh, not far westerly from the residence of Samuel Batchelder, Esq. The first and last of these three highways were long ago closed. Mason Street was early distinguished as the "highway from Charlestown to Watertown."
 * "It has already been stated that the road from Cambridge to Watertown for many years substantially coincided with the present Brattle Street, Elmwood Avenue, and Mount Auburn Street. To shorten the distance between Watertown and West Boston Bridge, the Town appointed a committee, Dec. 26,1805, to present a petition to the Court of Sessions " to establish the road as now laid out from the garden of the Hon. Elbridge Gerry to the garden of the late Thomas Brattle, Esq. " 2 At a subsequent meeting, Feb. 17, 1806, the other party triumphed, and the committee was discharged. The subject was again discussed, Nov. 17, 1806, Mr. Craigie having offered to give the land and make the road so far as it crossed his farm, if the town would establish a new road from Gerry's corner to a point on Brattle Street, nearly opposite to his house ;3 the town voted in favor of establishing such a road,"

Cognitive rehabilitation therapy

 * Cognitive rehabilitation therapy:
 * Cognitive rehabilitation


 * Letter to Gates asking for brain-injured veterans to be allowed this therapy
 * LIterature review 1998 - 2002

Looking at "Overview" sections of articles about books
There has been a dispute over NPOV at Start-up Nation. For comparison, I thought I'd look at articles for 4 other books that shared the NYT Business Best Sellers list on 1/2/2001, Superfreakonomics, Outliers_(book),  Too_Big_to_Fail_(book), and The 4-Hour Workweek. betsythedevine (talk) 13:52, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

"Overview section called 'Synopsis' starts w restatement of book's thesis and summary of its introduction. It then discusses in order the basic contents of chapters 1 thru 5 and concludes with brief summary of epilogue."
 * Superfreakonomics

"Article starts with 'Background', a long description of author and his reasons for writing the book. 'Synopsis' section, which is quite long, talks about book's contents at length and quotes from the author."
 * Outliers_(book)

"Very short article, whose 'Plot Summary' section might as well be quoted in full here: 'The book provides an overview of the early stages of the financial crisis of 2007–2010 from the beginning of 2008 to the decision to create the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The book tells the story from the perspectives of the leaders of the major financial institutions and the main regulatory authorities.'"
 * Too_Big_to_Fail_(book)

"The 'Synopsis' section summarizes 4 main chapters in order and the author's advice to readers."
 * The 4-Hour Workweek

None of these articles includes any of the publisher's blurb for the book, let alone starting off the overview section with a lengthy quote from it. All of them use the synopsis or plot summary to summarize, in an orderly way, what the author says in the book. betsythedevine (talk) 14:11, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Relationship to Wordsworth's life and thought
Wordsworth explained his goal to a reader in May 1810, saying, "What I wished to accomplish was to give a model of the manner in which topographical descriptions ought to be executed, in order to their being either useful or intelligible, by evolving truly and distinctly on appearance from another."

Publishing history
The beauty of the Lake District was already well-known in 1810, the year Wordsworth's guide to the lakes was first published, as an anonymous introduction to a book of engravings of the Lake District by the Reverend Joseph Wilkinson. For example, in 1775 the poet Thomas Gray published a journal of his visit to the area, describing the vale of Grasmere as "an unsuspected paradise]]." The first Lakeland visitors' guide (as opposed to a traveler's journal) appeared in 1778, when Thomas West published a route for travelers that included advice on viewing the landscape.

In 1820, Wordsworth published a second, longer version of the Guide attached to his Duddon sonnets. In 1822, Wordsworth's text was first published as a separate volume. Fourth and fifth revised editions followed in 1823 and 1835; the last of these is generally considered definitive.

Modern editions are based on the expanded fifth edition, published in 1835.

Organization

 * Directions and information for the tourist

"In preparing this Manual, it was the Author's principal wish to furnish a Guide or Companion for the Minds of Persons of taste, and feeling for Landscape, who might be inclined to explore the District of the Lakes with that degree of attention to which its beauty may fairly lay claim. For the more sure attainment, however, of this primary object, he will begin by undertaking the humble and tedious task of supplying the Tourist with directions how to approach the several scenes in their best, or most convenient, order."


 * Description of the scenery of the lakes
 * View of the country as formed by nature
 * View of the country as affected by its inhabitants
 * Changes and rules of taste for preventing their bad effects
 * Miscellaneous observations
 * Excursions
 * Ode ("The pass of Kirkstone")
 * Itinerary