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Lost Haddonfield: Leisure and Recreation

The past comes alive in pictures.

"Recreation, at least in the sense we know it today, did not exist in the early days of Haddonfield," according to Lost Haddonfield, by Douglas B. Rauschenberger and Katherine Mansfield Tassini. "Life was much harder, work was more physical and there was not much time for leisure activities. The Puritan spirit that repressed pleasure was certain alive in the early Quakers, who were not interested in certain worldly things."

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