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The Finest Horse in Town is a book about two of my mother's aunts who really lived in Maine in the 1800s and early 1900s. They owned a store in their town and sold "clothes and socks, cloth and corsets, needles and pins, and all kinds of shoes." | |||||||||
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One summer my mother, Sarah, and I
decided we would like to learn
more about these aunts. We could not ask questions because my aunts were
no longer living. We went to the town where they had owned their store
to do some "detective work."
We found an old newspaper ad
that also told us they sold coats and petticoats. Those were
the days before automobiles when horses provided the rides from one
place to another. An old man, the town's watchmaker, who remembered them told my mother,
Sarah, and me that they also owned "the finest horse in town." I wrote
these stories to help me think about what adventures these sisters
might have had with their wonderful horse.
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