Fish Flake Hill Historic District is a historic district on the north and south sides of Front Street from Cabot to Bartlett Streets in Beverly, Massachusetts.
The district contains Colonial and Federal architecture and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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“The fish sees the bait, not the hook; a person sees the gain, not the danger.”
—Chinese proverb.
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only a flake of snow,
whirled in His breath.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“The hill farmer ... always seems to make out somehow with his corn patch, his few vegetables, his rifle, and fishing rod. This self-contained economy creates in the hillman a comparative disinterest in the world’s affairs, along with a disdain of lowland ways. “I don’t go to question the good Lord in his wisdom,” runs the phrasing attributed to a typical mountaineer, “but I jest cain’t see why He put valleys in between the hills.””
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“It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!”
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