On September 22, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher - a clergyman and social reformer as well as the brother of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe - took to the Pittsfield Sun newspaper to write of the pleasures of "a-chestnutting" during his Massachusetts boyhood: "There was frolic enough, and climbing enough, and shaking enough, and rattling nuts enough, and a sly kiss or two, but never enough."
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