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Ford, he discovered that I had never been in Northampton before and insisted on driving me around a bit as I had a half hour before train time. Then the surprises began to come, and I began to realize that Mr. De Rose was no run-of-the-mine railroader. He showed me all the churches, including the Unitarian and the Congregationalist where he went "not as often as he should." He drove me all through Smith College campus, and then past the home of McCallum of silk hosiery fame, a magnificent place. Mr. De Rose said that McCallum had sold it because of financial trouble but at one time he used to give some great parties there with entertainers imported from New York - that he had been to many of them; his family & the McCallums were old friends. Then we drove past Mrs. Coolidge's new home where the Pierce Arrow was just pulling out of the garage. I admired it, said it seemed rather large for her alone, Mr. De Rose said it really was quite simple inside; he had been there too frequently. Then he pointed out his own home, a large, old fashioned mansion with a barn behind it twice as big as our house and two or three acres of ground. Then, nearby came the double house where the Coolidges lived all through the time he was Governor and President. The back of the place bordered on Mr. De Rose's property. "Yes," said Mr. De Rose. "I used to know Cal well - used to talk to him over the back fence." Then we went through Clark University for deaf-mutes.
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