Few of New England’s folk customs caused the gentry as much embarrassment as the practice of bundling. It was considered a practice of unrefined rustics, sneered at by city slickers and the upper class. The patrician Charles Francis Adams, grandson of John Adams, wrote in 1891 that “the practice of ‘bundling’ has long been one ...
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