Thornton W. Burgess
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Thornton Waldo Burgess was an American conservationist and author of children's stories. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for his daily newspaper column.
Harrison Cady's frontispiece to the Mother West Wind "Where" Stories depicting Burgess animal characters
Sandwich, Massachusetts
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Sandwich is a town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and is its oldest town. The town motto is Post tot Naufracia Portus, Latin for "after so many shipwrecks, a haven". The population was 20,259 at the 202
Thornton W. Burgess
…children's stories. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for his daily newspaper column. Born January 14, 1874 in Sandwich, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, Burgess was the son of Caroline F. Haywood and Thornton W. Burgess Sr., a direct descendant of Thomas Burgess, one of the first Sandwich…
Sandwich Town Hall (1834) and Congregational Church (1848)
Memorial to Benjamin Nye and Katherine Tupper
Dexter's Grist Mill
Sandwich Glass Museum