Prudence Wells's (Shelburne, MA) Lovely Early 19th Century Penmanship Notebook hanging relief carving and the carved and silver

and the carved and silver painted "Drover Hotel" sign hanging out front

I've long been admiring sets of stone blocks like this for years

I really like the big leafy branches at either side

and sort of a whitewash stain over the wood

Prudence Wells's (Shelburne, MA) Lovely Early 19th Century Penmanship Notebook hanging relief carving and the carved and silverI made a trip to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine this week and scooped up a few old paper things, this early penmanship notebook, the work of a Prudence Wells of Shelburne, Massachusetts among them. (And I believe I've placed her, born in 1799, in Shelburne, Franklin, MA, married to a Thomas Nims in 1825, and living until to the age of 90 in Greenfield, MA.) Based on that, and its content, I believe this notebook dates to the late 1810s