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UNFOLDING YEARS, 85

Maria was buried. We failed to find her grave and I learned later that she was resting in Forest Hill Cemetery nearby. As we wandered about that lovely spot, we came upon the resting places of Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes and other famous people who made that place hallowed ground to me ! It was a beautiful day and the birds were filling the air with their sweetest songs. I shall never forget the peace and loveliness of that morning. I like to go back to it in memory and feel as I did then that I was in an American Westminster Abbey." Back at the Library and hard at work for a while, then off to Atlantic City in June for the Twelfth Biennial Convention of the A.A.W.B.
Next we began planning for a trip to California which should combine business with pleasure. This materialized in the fall of 1928. As I have written, an account of this trip in detail in another volume entitled "My Trip to the Pacific Coast" which is now available in braille in the Library of Congress, I will only give an outline here. It was late August when we left Washington. After leaving Chicago we traveled by way of the Canadian Pacific to Vancouver, from thence by boat to Seattle with a brief stop at Victoria, B.C. We continued down the coast to Portland, Oregan, then to San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, and home by way of Salt Lake City, Denver, Des Moines, St. Louis and Chicago. 
Red Cross Chapters, especially in the Pacific Area, had urged me to visit them and the Secretary of that Area planned my itinerary. In ever city meetings and luncheons were arranged at which I spoke concerning the work, held conferences and answered innumerable questions. After these meetings, cars and chauffeurs were at our disposal and we went sightseeing under most favorable conditions. I visited all the libraries for the blind in the region covered.The entire trip took two months and was on of the most pleasant and profitable experiences of my whole career. It was the year of the presidential election and while in Des Moines we cast our ballots for Mr. Herbert Hoover, who was almost unanimously elected.

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UNFOLDING YEARS, 85 Maria was buried. We failed to find her grave and I learned later that she was resting in Forest Hill Cemetery nearby. As we wandered about that lovely spot, we came upon the resting places of Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes and other famous people who made that place hallowed ground to me ! It was a beautiful day and the birds were filling the air with their sweetest songs. I shall never forget the peace and loveliness of that morning. I like to go back to it in memory and feel as I did then that I was in an American Westminster Abbey." Back at the Library and hard at work for a while, then off to Atlantic City in June for the Twelfth Biennial Convention of the A.A.W.B. Next we began planning for a trip to California which should combine business with pleasure. This materialized in the fall of 1928. As I have written, an account of this trip in detail in another volume entitled "My Trip to the Pacific Coast" which is now available in braille in the Library of Congress, I will only give an outline here. It was late August when we left Washington. After leaving Chicago we traveled by way of the Canadian Pacific to Vancouver, from thence by boat to Seattle with a brief stop at Victoria, B.C. We continued down the coast to Portland, Oregan, then to San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, and home by way of Salt Lake City, Denver, Des Moines, St. Louis and Chicago. Red Cross Chapters, especially in the Pacific Area, had urged me to visit them and the Secretary of that Area planned my itinerary. In ever city meetings and luncheons were arranged at which I spoke concerning the work, held conferences and answered innumerable questions. After these meetings, cars and chauffeurs were at our disposal and we went sightseeing under most favorable conditions. I visited all the libraries for the blind in the region covered.The entire trip took two months and was on of the most pleasant and profitable experiences of my whole career. It was the year of the presidential election and while in Des Moines we cast our ballots for Mr. Herbert Hoover, who was almost unanimously elected.