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Henry Ford wrote a 60-page book promoting Mary Sawyer's account of the origin of the nursery rhyme, which angered the town of Newport, New Hampshire and its historical society. It is said to have moved the frame of the red schoolhouse where the incident allegedly occurred to Sudbury, Massachusetts.
He wrote a book about this called The Story of Mary and Her Little Lamb.
— Episode: Short Stuff: Mary Had A Little Lamb
Episode: Short Stuff: Mary Had A Little Lamb
Henry Ford wrote a 60-page book promoting Mary Sawyer's account of the origin of the nursery rhyme, which angered the town of Newport, New Hampshire and its historical society. It is said to have moved the frame of the red schoolhouse where the incident allegedly occurred to Sudbury, Massachusetts.
He wrote a book about this called The Story of Mary and Her Little Lamb.
Henry Ford wrote a 60 page book just basically touting Mary Sawyer's story, much to the chagrin of the town of Newport, New Hampshire and its historical society.