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LISTEN #2 5.5 minutes
AUDIO BY LOCAL ACTORS SCRIPT SOURCES SCRIPT RESEARCH & EDITING Terry Gips |
LISTEN #3 3.5 minutes
| ROOTED IN NATURE: THE BEEBES AT HIGHFIELD |
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George Moses gives a brief look at early Falmouth and the wooded land where Highfield Hall was built in 1978. LISTEN 4.25 minutes | |
Frances, or Fannie, Beebe reads from her journal, begun at 16, with details of being a teenager in a wealthy Boston family. LISTEN #1 7.00 minutes | |
Frank Beebe, the youngest of the Beebes and the last to live at Highfield and oversee the estate during its last years. LISTEN 6.5 minutes | ||
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Charles Beebe reads from the diary he kept while traveling by steamship to Europe at age 20. LISTEN 6.25 minutes |
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Fannie continues her story and tells of the Financial Panic of 1857 and how it affected her family. LISTEN #2 5.5 minutes |
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Pierson Beebe tells of becoming manager of the Beebe properties at age 32 after the death of his father.LISTEN 4 minutes | |
Fannie reads more as she reaches 21, the age of adulthood for young women in New England in the 1800s. LISTEN #3 3.5 minutes |
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| Emily (Emma) Beebe | J. Arthur Beebe | Mary L. Beebe | Highfield Hall 1880s | Beebe Family Tree | |||
