{"date":"September 18","id":"09-18","intro":["“Every sight was full of beauty. We were coming back to our homes, and the signs of civilization from which we had been so long banished—” wrote Dana, as his ship entered Boston Harbor."],"minutes":19,"readings":[{"author":"Richard Henry Dana, Jr.","end":356,"start":348,"volume":23,"work":"Two Years Before the Mast"}],"slug":"september-18","status":"proofread","title":"Home After Storms and Adventures","url":"/harvard-classics/september-18/","words":3853}