Jewett Dash Plates
Embedded in the dashboard of every Jewett was an amulet, visible on the Passenger side as a dashplate. Harry's wife was something of a spiritualist, and these amulets were purported to have mystical power that protected the occupants. Henry Jewett's estate, once a great plantation, has all but vanished. The ruins near Rose City in Northern Lower Michigan are still visible. Discussions about restoring parts of the estate as a historical park have not yet borne fruit.
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Famous quotes containing the words jewett, dash and/or plates:
“Wrecked on the lee shore of age.”
—Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909)
“The office ... make[s] its incumbent a repair man behind a dyke. No sooner is one leak plugged than it is necessary to dash over and stop another that has broken out. There is no end to it.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)