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Mary Baker Eddy: The Bow Years

Excerpts from Preliminary Report for the Bow Town History. Prepared by Jewel Spangler Smaus.

From the July 1971 issue of The Christian Science Journal

In the old "Upside-down Book," carefully preserved in Bow, New Hampshire, the name of Mary Morse Baker, later Mary Baker Eddy, first appears in written history. The worn leather volume has been affectionately called the "Upside-down Book" because, a century and a half ago, the town clerk started one set of records at the beginning and another set from the opposite end.