David W. Blight Quote
He delivered some fifteen lectures in and around Dryden and McGrawville, New York. On October 1 he announced appearances in at least eleven towns in Tompkins County alone. The schedule was backbreaking, but on an earlier stop in Ithaca in late July, Douglass described a little break before the evening speech. He hiked a mile or two along the east bank of Cayuga Lake until he found a suitable place to renew my acquaintance with the art of swimming. He told of his sheer joy in a kind of diary for the paper: Here all my boyish pranks in the front basin of Baltimore were renewed. I had a glorious swim.33
David W. Blight
He delivered some fifteen lectures in and around Dryden and McGrawville, New York. On October 1 he announced appearances in at least eleven towns in Tompkins County alone. The schedule was backbreaking, but on an earlier stop in Ithaca in late July, Douglass described a little break before the evening speech. He hiked a mile or two along the east bank of Cayuga Lake until he found a suitable place to renew my acquaintance with the art of swimming. He told of his sheer joy in a kind of diary for the paper: Here all my boyish pranks in the front basin of Baltimore were renewed. I had a glorious swim.33