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Excerpt from Memorial Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Thomas Paine: At the Paine Monument, Paine Avenue and North Street, New Rochelle, N. Y., Saturday, June 5th, 1909, 2 P. M The improved position of the Paine monument at New Rochelle is material and visible proof of the rise of Paine himself in public esteem. The con trast as regards the monument is Shown in two pictures the truth seeker has printed this week., The monument was erected seventy years ago in the corner of a field at the intersection of a country road and a lane. Today it has been elevated to a place where two avenues meet, with broad drives on three sides of it. The improvement of the Site has involved a vast amount of filling in, and the old trees that Shaded and half hid the monument have been preserved by circular retaining walls about' their trunks. The old Paine house stands ina park by a walled brook that feeds a pretty lake with a pergola (or is it a peristyle?) at the lower end. The little company who journeyed to New Rochelle a hundred years ago to bury Paine would think themselves in a strange country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.