The
congregation of the Unitarian church at Brookline usually contained a
considerable percentage of Brook Farmers, and at times a Unitarian
minister from the Farm officiated in that sacred edifice. Rev. Dr.
Ripley, Rev. John S. Dwight, Rev. George P. Bradford, Rev. Warren
Burton, Rev. John Allen and Rev. Ephraim Chapin were resident ministers,
and Rev. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev. William H. Channing and Rev. James
Freeman Clarke were warmly interested in the Association. Charles K.
Newcomb and Christopher P. Cranch also immediate friends, were educated
for the Unitarian ministry. Dr. Codman in his "Recollections" speaks of
seeing five Unitarian clergymen dancing in the pine-grove at once.
One of the features of our holiday doings was the procession which
spontaneously came into order, after dinner, when there was anything to
the fore in the pine-woods. Then a parade took place like unto the
wedding march of the villagers in an old fashioned opera. There was
always some display of decoration on such occasions, usually floral, the
girls, wearing garlands and wreaths or sprays of vine and chaplets of
leaves.
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