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DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT
More about Sarah's story 'Decoration Day'
Three years after the Civil War ended, in 1868, General John A. Loganâthe head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veteransâestablished that May 30 should be set aside as Decoration Day, so-called from the tradition of decorating graves with flowers. More than five thousand participants gathered for the first Decoration Day in Arlington National Cemetery and lavished flowers and flags on some twenty thousand graves, and similar events took place in cemeteries all over the country. The commemoration spread more widely in subsequent years and by the 1880s the day was known in some places as Memorial Day, which over the course of the next century became the more common designation. It was only in 1968 that the federal government passed the law that, beginning in 1971, officially shifted the date to the last Monday in May.
On the morning of Decoration Day, in either 1889 or 1890, Sarah Orne Jewett wrote from her home in South Berwick, Maine, to her friend and companion Annie Fields in Boston about the events planned for that day:
There is going to be an unwonted parade in honor of the day and I am glad; for usually everybody trots off to Dover or Portsmouth and nothing is done here except to put the pathetic little flags about the burying-grounds. It seems to me that I have just begun to understand how grown people felt about the war in the time of it,âat any rate it brought tears to my eyes yesterday when John said that over two hundred men went from this little town to the war. You can see how many young sons of old farmers, and how many men out of their little shops, and people who had nobody to leave in their places, went to make up that number.
This âunwonted paradeâ almost surely inspired Jewett a couple of years later to write âDecoration Day,â in which a small group of aging Civil War veterans convinces the residents of their small Maine rural village to host a long-overdue procession honoring the local residents killed in the war.After Jewett included the story in her collection A Native of Winby, the reviewer for The Writer singled it out as âone of the best stories that she has ever told,â and the poet John Greenleaf Whittier similarly wrote, just before his death, that the tale âwas one of her very best.â In 1895 Jewett boasted to a reporter that the story had âkept its hold surprisingly and is making part of the exercises of the day this year.â And according to a handwritten note in a friendâs edition of A Native of Winby, Jewett later told a neighbor in Boston that âif she were remembered by any of her stories, she should be glad if it might be this one.â
In the last century, however, the opinions of critics have been decidedly mixed. When Willa Cather was assembling a 1925 edition of Jewettâs best writings, she belittled it as a âconventional magazine storyâ and recalled a conversation with Jewett two decades earlier. âWhen I told her that âDecoration Dayâ to me seemed more like other peopleâs stories, she said with a sigh that it was one of the ones that had grown old-fashioned.â Cather convinced the editor at Houghton Mifflin not to include it in the volume.
Some of Jewettâs biographers have likewise dismissed the story as âsentimental.â But during his life the late Jewett scholar Richard Cary argued that the story is one of her finestâand by far the strongest of the many holiday-themed tales she published in magazines. The story âdefines the pathos of short-lived gratitude,â Carey wrote, and Jewett âprevents pity from turning maudlin through an unexpected deliverance or a bracing touch of comedy.â
Decoration Day by Sarah Orne Jewett
This text is presented with the assistance of Terry Heller, Coe College, who writes, "'Decoration Day' first appeared in Harper's Magazine (85:84-90) in June 1892. It was later collected in A Native of Winby (1893). This text is from the 1893 edition." Dr. Hellerâs annotated text can be read at the Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project website.Two years before the publication of "Decoration Day," South Berwick erected a soldiers monument in honor of those who had sacrificed during the Civil War.
Ceremony at the South Berwick Soldiers Monument c. 1900
The small park in which the monument still stands was at first sometimes called Jewett Park, as two Jewett family homes and Jewett Avenue stand nearby. This part of South Berwick Village, at the intersection of Portland Street and Agamenticus Road today, was once known as the Plain or Plains.
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