Excerpt from Colonial HolidaysBut time brings change, and even though the mills of the Puritan Gods ground particularly slow, we find mention in the diary of William Pynchon of a dance in the holiday season of 1783 at Endicot's, in Salem, descendants of austere John Endicot who cut down the Maypole at Ma-re Mount. Picture the indignation of the stern old Puritan, could he have foreseen this radical departure from the old standards! And even at this late date the elders shake their heads with: What are we coming to? The diarist himself seems to feel that they are becoming a bit reck less in their dissipation, for he records a goodly array of dances with notice able care; and is there not a trace of sly amusement in his remarking the dance at Brother Goodale's?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.