QUEEN OF MAY AT SALISBURY ACADEMY, 1839.
Our town was enlivened on Wednesday evening last, with that primitive and beautiful past time, the Coronation of the Queen of May. This mimic scene of Royalty was enacted in a grove in the village by the Young Ladies of Mrs. Hutchison's School, with uncommon propriety and effect. Miss Mary Fisher was the very pretty representative of the vernal deity on the occasion, and if the youthful Queen of the English Realms shall always do her part on the throne with as much dignity, . propriety and grace, as did our village maiden, her subjects will have cause to rejoice in her reign. The coronal wreath was placed on the brow of Her Majesty by the fair hand of Miss Elizabeth Paup, and a very touching address was delivered by Miss Martha M. Jones. Cakes, Candies and all kinds of Confectionary were handed round to the visitors; of whom there was a large and elegant assemblage, while Music lent its gladdening charm to the scene. Seldom has any pageant of the kind gone off better. The festivities of the evening were concluded with an elegant party, furnished by that spirited and accomplished landlord, Col. Long.—Car. Watchman.
—Raleigh Star, May 15, 1839.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
