Remembered Events

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Excerpt from Remembered Events: Concerning the Life and Services of Benjamin Brown Thompson, as a Teacher of Common Schools, Academies, Institures and Popular Singing Schools, in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, for Nearly Half a Century, or From 1827 to the Year 1875, With Brief Notice To My family, my friends, and my very many respected pupils, now scattered and settled in nearly every State of the Union, some of them holding positions of trust and responsibility, I take pride in dedicting these pages: I believe that they have not forgotten their old teacher: I cherish warm recollections of my schools and scholars: I have watched their progress and prosperity: My interest for the welfare of my pupils will continue unabated through life. "Left much alone, in these late empty years, Life, (starved and dwindled, ) tells its old tales o'er, And, like the wind, the Past sings in mine cars, But, like the wind, goes by." I believe that one of the chief sweets of memory is drawn from the melancholy which follows in its train, in my lonely moments of meditation, the union of tender memories, cheerful and regretful, bring forth an offering of tears, the children of thought, soothing and sorrowful in their influence upon the mind. Whilst with regret I look back on the past, I can also look with bright hope to the future. It is a part of my nature to love the future, with its promises, as well as the past, with its recollections. Deep, deep goes the song which guides me up the mountain from whence I can look it upon the distant landscape through which I have wandered. Imagination sometimes fakes me there, and I feel the gentle summer breeze sweeping over the pleasure grounds, as it fans my brow, though it does not always bring to me the full fragrance of the flowers, but I can keep a leaf, or something in the form of a memento, with which to link the joys of life. The many friends who assisted me in obtaining and managing my many different day schools, and music schools, can never be forgotten, and the thousands of pupils who made my several schools so interesting and creditable, are yet fresh in my memory. I have seen many of them as distinguished citizens of various states, and some of them, I am happy to ray, arc to-day among the most influential and useful men and women of the states where they have since resided. I greatly rejoice to know of their prosperity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.