Excerpt from Alfred I. Du Pont, the Family RebelOften for half a century had shaken the Brandywine countryside. The church, too, was constructed to resist these man-made earth quakes, for it stood well Within the zone of danger. On that ac count the duponts had chosen Christ Church as their own place of worship, in return endowing it solidly and without any Show. This prospering, prolific and insular family liked the things with which it had to do - whether pertaining to this life or the next close at hand, convenient to their solid, roomy homes and to their powder yards on the banks of the tumbling Brandywine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.