Excerpt from The Stonington Battle Centennial: A Record of the Celebration of August Eight, Ninth and Tenth, Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen It may be objected that there is too much detail in the recital of the preliminaries of the celebration, but it was believed that the story of how the plan grew might be of service to other communities intending to celebrate anniversaries of their own. Some useful hints may be gathered from the experience of those upon whom the management of the Stonington Battle Centennial devolved. An endeavor has been made to give credit wherever credit was due for the success of the celebration, but it is certain that some names have been inadvertently omitted. Indeed it would not be practicable to put on record the individual services of all those who helped to carry the picturesque enterprise through. There were literally hundreds who gave generously of their time and efforts to the task. All that can be said by way of acknowledgment is that there was harmonious co-opera tion from the first and that everyone's contribution of labor and counsel had its share in the consummation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.