Excerpt from Centennial Celebration, at Danvers, Mass: June 16, 1852Welcome, friends of Danvers, to the land of your birth, and of your choice!It gladdens the heart to meet so many cheerful countenances on this One Hundredth Anniversary of the independent munici pal existence of our town.In behalf of my fellow-citizens, I bid you all a hearty welo come here. Your presence gives assurance that we have not mistaken your sympathies with the occasion of our meeting.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.