2 10 31 https://omekaclassic1.nhlibraries.org/files/original/64077a3d04808683eaaf7d567c9a0f18.pdf 61a00a7205083a9f19516f388d109e13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour Subject The topic of the resource Troubadour Description An account of the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour was a publication of the State of New Hampshire's State Planning and Development Commission in Concord, NH from 1931-1950s. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State of New Hampshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context troubadour071951 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource State of New Hampshire Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour July 1951 Description An account of the resource <em>Enjoy the July 1951 issue of The New Hampshire Troubadour!</em><!--more-->[gview file="http://nhlibraries.org/history/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/July1951Final.pdf"] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1951 Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16-page booklet Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New Hampshire Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource COPYRIGHT UNDETERMINED: This Rights Statement should be used for Items for which the copyright status is unknown and for which the organization that has made the Item available has undertaken an (unsuccessful) effort to determine the copyright status of the underlying Work. 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Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour Subject The topic of the resource Troubadour Description An account of the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour was a publication of the State of New Hampshire's State Planning and Development Commission in Concord, NH from 1931-1950s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The State of New Hampshire Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The State of New Hampshire Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930s-1950s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource NHSL Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource State of New Hampshire Troubadour PDF files of the Troubadour OCR OCR of the Troubadour The New Hampshire Troubadour May 1951 The New Hampshire Troubadour Comes to you every month, singing the praises of New Hampshire, a state whose beauty and opportunities should tempt yon to come and share those good things that make life here so delightful. State Planning and Development Commission. Concord. New Hampshire. One dollar a year. Entered as second-class matter. May 31. 1949. at the Post Office at Concord. New Hampshire under the Act of March 3, 1879. ANDREW M. HEATH, Editor VOLUME XXI MAY, 1951 Number 2 I KNEW IT WAS MAY by Grace Wight Buckle I knew it was May — the shadbush burst In a riot of white overnight, and the sun Spread wee, yellow five-fingers, one by one, All over the pastures, gray. It was May by the wild bird's note a-float On the still, soft air of a fair, young morn, And the scent of violets newly born In a garden over the way. It was May by my heart and its pulse a-start, Like waves that glitter the foaming sea — And by happy hopes that awoke in me — I knew, O I knew it was May. New Hampshire Troubadour ENJOYING LIFE THOREAU-LY by Lois Grant Patches Osterville, Massachusetts (Also Acworth, New Hampshire) HENRY THOREAU, the iconoclast of Concord, has a great many enthusiastic disciples over the world, practicing his in- dependence, his social heresies, and his love of nature. I would not call myself an ardent disciple, but I would like to use his most serious person for a little play on words as I say that when vacation time comes I want to enjoy life Thoreau-ly. Why I wait for vacation is hard to explain. All too infrequently can days be ripped away from their fellows like words out of context or verses out of scripture to be used for the soul's good, but when the family can get away into the foothills of New Hampshire for two weeks or a month the earth and its processes become important to me. Sunrise and sunset become noticed. Dawn and sunrise gift- wrap the day and present it to us for living. Sunset gives it equally colorful beauty as it become ours for remembering. It is easy and normal to be on hand for both presentations when one is in the country. After one mountain sunrise, with its tonic value, there is a desire for more of the same thing. The colors affect the attitudes with which the work or play of the day is undertaken. Hunger is likely to be the alarm clock in the mountains. Early bedtime and the sound sleep brought on by physical weariness and the lighter air make early rising a natural thing. With only one eye open the thought of a mug of coffee, with a plate of bacon and eggs, and toast made over the coals of a 4 The May 1951 quick fire, entice with the force of a well of water on the desert. Fire, though perhaps not properly called one of earth's pro- cesses, is a most important element in the enjoyment of out-door or cahin living. A wood fire is a luxury in our thermostatically heated homes. The fireplace, the mantel and the fire are in- cluded lor aesthetic value, while in the camp or cabin fire is a basic necessity. Wood comes to he appreciated for its character. Old sumac can be relied upon for quick heat, the dry pine Spring at the church and town hall at Greenfield. ERIC M. SANFORD for crackling intensity, apple wood for the coals that are nearly smokeless for slow cooking or broiling oak, maple, birch and ash make the evening fire, started with plenty of kindling and burning on until bed-time. In the years of tent camping before we built our vacation lodge our fireplace was a carefully laid pile of rocks. Later we made a semicircular monstrosity which we call our mauso- leum because it has contained the ashes of so many trees. A barbecue was made on the left side, a cupboard for wood and picnic supplies on the right, with the wide center left for our evening fires. At dusk when camp was made ready for the night, the food checked to see that nothing was left to tempt rodents, the beds and their mosquito tents arranged, the fire was started. Lobster fishermen of Seabrook and Hampton at Hampton Harbor, just in from hauling the lobster pots. DOUGLAS ARMSDEN Fire affects persons variously, according to temperaments and the times. It may loosen tongues or it may bring on a medita- tive spirit. It may light up the corners of the memory into which we have tucked incidents of the past so that we see them again, vividly or dimly, for delight or for regret. When one sits in front of an out-door fire, the stars and planets become important. How seldom we notice them even in village life, let alone the town and city. The variability of the sky's lamps and candles is full of wonder and fascination to the watcher. Without a knowledge of astronomy, even, all of us become psalmists at heart when the heavens are our most visible neighbors. With the building of our lodge, fire continued to hold its position of top-rating. On fall vacations temperatures have fallen to a low of eight above zero, and we have found ice in the wash basin in the sink. At such times The Man must get up early to get a fire roaring, and only when we have lis- tened to its crackle for some time and are assured of a warm semi-circle in which to he comfortable do we exercise the privilege of dressing by the fire. On such mornings the electric stove is spurned in favor of getting breakfast at the fireplace. More than breakfasts were cooked there this past September. Garden produce was still available, and we found corn especially delightful cooked in its husks over the coals. One rainy noon we put potatoes into the coals and cooked our corn and steak over them. Cucumbers and tomatoes completed the main course, while blueberries from our late-bearing bushes furnished our dessert. In the autumn walking becomes our favorite recreation. Each year we tramp over our own sixty acres, noting the encroachment New Hampshire Troubadour 7 WINSTON POTE Cherry blossoms and a farm at Lancaster. of the forest, as they are not used for farming. After our own place has been thoroughly visited, we walk neglected roads to come upon abandoned farms. Hearing that a near-by acreage was for sale, we set out to find and explore it. It was a climb worth taking, even though we passed an area from which lumbermen had cut the largest of the trees, the cream of the trunks taken away, leaving the skim milk of upper branches and brush to make for disorder. We found the air downright nourishing. There was a lingering odor of berries and we occasionally picked a last red raspberry from a bush by the roadside. Pine odors were strong, and there were mushroom caps poking through the rotting oak stumps and pine needles. When we reached the top of the hill we were rewarded with a view of a deep valley with Monadnock rising on the horizon. Some one had abandoned a home on the hill-crest and silvery hoards and beams lay helter-skelter tumbled into the foundation, with a jagged broken chimney standing smokeless in the sun. Bouquets and the making of dish gardens look much of my time. For the first time we saw the closed gentians and used 8 The May 1951 them in our vases with the plentiful golden rod. The gentian has a blossom that looks like several blue Christmas bulbs fastened inside their four long and pointed leaves. One bouquet remained fresh and beautiful for ten days. While The Man was getting in the wood supply I took my basket in search of mosses and ferns, berries and ground pine. These oddments for dish gardens provided gifts for neighbors and relatives whom I wished to remember in a small way on our return. There were the numerous varieties of moss, the checkerberries with their waxen leaves and red berries, the partridge berry vines the grey-green fungi growing wherever rotting vegetation would give it food the parasitical growth which resembled tiny red flowers the seedlings of maple and birch in their two-inch beginnings all these would live for weeks in our own home and in the homes of our friends. Just once I came upon two freshly risen purple mushrooms which lasted in a moss garden for ten days, giving an oriental touch to the whole. What a queer load of baggage we carried home on the September trip! The moss gardens were made up and put on the floor of the car's rear seat. There were apples from our neglected orchard. From one tree we picked bushels of small but delicious Roman beauties, remarkably free of worms. Cooked in their skins and strained, they were to give us tasty pink apple sauce for weeks to come. Together The Man and I had cut and prepared several bundles of white birch logs for Christmas presents and donations to our own church lair. Chosen for lovely markings, sawed into measured lengths, washed and tied with red ribbon, they make splendid gifts. With them we tucked in several logs of lilac New Hampshire Troubadour 9 LUCY G. LOEKLE Spring scene at a roadside near Richmond. Mrs. Loekle writes: "As a frequent visitor to New Hampshire I have taken many photographs, especially kodachromes, of its beauty spots and also the home life of your sturdy people who live so contentedly in the rugged folds of the Granite Hills. "Among things that are especially noticeable is the well fed plump- ness of your farm animals — no 'austerity' there! — / have not seen their equal in any of the surround- ing states. It is one of the pleasures of visiting New Hampshire to find this unchanged aspect of once thriving, happy rural life. "In the vicinity of Richmond last spring I made a portrait of 'Two New Hampshire Beauties' on the roadside as I could not resist carrying away uith me this memory, as I think it portrays so well the animals of your state, reflecting as they do also, the character of the owners." 10 wood which we like to use a little at a time in our fires in the Franklin stove. Though our God demands no incense, that is no reason to leave it out of our living, and lilac is the most fragrant wood for burning. The simple chores of carrying water and cutting and stacking firewood, the clearing of the fallen trees from the living, all have significance and delight for vacationers who live in a highly conventional situation the balance of the year. I handled a buck saw for the first time last fall, and now that the aching muscles are a thing of the past, the achievement of cutting through a log remains an exciting memory. The rustic life, as may have guessed by now, does something for me. May it always be my privilege to spend a portion of the year, however small, in the country, enjoying life Thoreau-ly. The May 1951 REFLECTIONS ON A MAY MORNING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE by Helen Claire Wills THE STILLNESS OF THE DAWN, on that first May morning in New Hampshire, was comparable to a baby's breath in slumber when, simultaneously with the rising of the sun, a bluebird's song announced the arrival of the day. With the bluebird's song came the sunrise — a picturesque melody of smoky gray and burnished gold — the gray gradually becoming obliterated by the more lustrous rays from the sun's reflection. Then, in turn, the lake outside my window, caught up the golden glints in its slight undulations brought about by the early morning breeze. The dew-drenched leaves on the trees shimmered like butterfly wings in the sun. No one could possibly resist the magic of such a New Hamp- shire morning — nor, would anyone want to! 1 know I didn't, consequently I found myself wide awake, and dressing hurried- ly, with the sense of expectancy that always accompanies the spring. The dogs came bounding at my call and we took off for a brisk walk along the lakeside. The pine trees on either side of the road are beautiful at all times of the year, but that May morning there was added beauty, it seemed, in the newly opened chartreuse leaves of the maple, and the soft green of the birches and poplars, in contrast to the dark, rich green of the pines and spruces. As I sauntered along my attention was caught by the soft murmer of rushing water — first to my right, and then to my left. 1 looked closely to find miniature waterfalls, partially hidden from sight, busy spilling their newly released waters into the New Hampshire Troubadour lake . . . Even a capricious little trout lept ahoved the water all unaware of the fate that was awaiting it — not too far away — in the shape of a fishing enthusiast! As I continued walking I heard the songs of bluebirds, about- to-depart for the summer chick-a-dees, and song sparrows, joyously mingled together where, a moment before, there had been silence except for the murmering of the water. Looking up I saw some little chick-a-dees in the tree directly above me and one brazen little fellow, as he saw me put my hand in my pocket, flew down and lit on my shoulder! As I withdrew my hand and opened it, palm upwards, disclosing sunflower seeds he flew from shoulder to hand, and took his own good time picking out the biggest and best seed before he flew off again to his perch in the tree. For those unacquainted with the epicurean taste of a chick-a-dee I should probably mention that they are inordinately fond of sunflower seeds and, during the winter, are bribed by year 'round residents into almost complete trustfulness. Although the sun, despite the early hour, was warm the air was invigorating and conducive to rapid striding, so I started off again and it was heart warming to be greeted with a cheerful "good morning" — lor I was a newcomer to New England — by a native also out to enjoy the May morning. We exchanged pleasantries, and then it seemed to me from the way she said, "Come, I've something to show you," there was a special treat in store for me — and, so there was. We walked together down the road to her cottage where, as il on parade, dozens of tulips and daffodils were nodding in uni- son, to the sun, against a background ol pink and white apple blossoms. A May Morning's floral tribute to New Hampshire! 12 The May 1951 BOUCHARD Fishing, for trout and salmon at Pleasant Lake, New London. BOY AND FISH He leaned and felt the line go slack And prickled up and down his back, Waiting to feel the sudden run And see the fish arc to the tun. He could not hreathe nor move at all And yet he felt himself grow tall Enough to handle scale and fin Enough to bring a strong fish in. The pull came sharply and he stood As one who finds a moment good, Bracing and reeling head to toes. Watch sunlight bless him as he goes, Man-tall and surely three years older. His first fish swung across his shoulder! The Hampshire Troubadour — Anobel Armour in the Washington Star 13 FRONT COVER: Lilacs at Governor Benning Wentworth estate, Portsmouth. Color photo by Douglas Armsden. BACK COVER: Fishing the Israel River at Jefferson Notch in the White Mountain National Forest. Photo by Winston Pote. FRONTISPIECE: Apple blossoms at Pittsfield. Photo by Eric M. Sanford. NEW HAMPSHIRE BOOKS AND AUTHORS Democracy Fights: A History of New Hampshire in World War 11, by Philip N. Guyol, published for the State of New Hampshire by Dartmouth Pub- lications, Hanover, N. H., S3.00. A highly readable account of the military, governmental, eco- nomic, and cultural aspects, illuminated by charts, diagrams, and 32 pages of photographs, with many sidelights on the story given in detailed notes 14 and a most attractive volume of 350 pages as to all production details -- design, paper, presswork, and binding. Dublin Days, Old and New, by Henry D. Allison of Dublin, New Hampshire, Exposition Press, Inc., New York. An in- formal history of a typical N e w England village, embodying au- thentic Americana and inform- ative "ruralia," ancient and modern traditions that give it a universality and timelessness. While the ordinary farmer and villageman of the past two cen- turies gave Dublin and the Monadnock Region their essen- tial spirit and character, the fact that Dublin has had many per- manent and temporary residents of prominence in art, literature, education, and business gives the volume added interest. Keith Jennison's New Hampshire, an arrangement of photo- graphs and pithy comments, has been reprinted. Henry Holt and Co., Inc., New York, $2.95. The May 1951 As reported by the Manchester Union-Leader: The Newbery Award, given each year to the author of the nation's best children's book, has been won by Mrs. William McGreal of Peterborough. Mrs. McGreal, who writes under the name of Elizabeth Yates, is the author of Amos Fortune — Free Man, a story based on the life of a Negro slave who purchased his freedom and then made his home in Jaffrey. Summer visitors in New Hampshire this year will no- tice signs marking scenic road- side areas. Sections of the high- ways have been designated for scenic improvement by the New Hampshire Voluntary Road- side Improvement Committee, which was organized last year to help solve the important are contra, square, and folk problems of keeping attractive what the motorist sees as he travels. The voluntary effort is intended to help bring about general improvement of road sides and adjacent premises. Complaints and suggestions may be sent to the secretary of the committee, care of Supervisor of Highway Marking, Depart- ment of Public Works and Highways, at Concord. A new edition of the New Hampshire Recreational Calendar, giving dates of spring and summer events, opening dates of tourist attractions, and other information, will be sent to anyone wishing it. Just ask the State Planning and Development Commission for a copy. The sixth annual New Hampshire Folk Festival is to be at New Hampshire Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, May 25 and 26. 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Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour Subject The topic of the resource Troubadour Description An account of the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour was a publication of the State of New Hampshire's State Planning and Development Commission in Concord, NH from 1931-1950s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The State of New Hampshire Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The State of New Hampshire Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930s-1950s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource NHSL Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource State of New Hampshire Troubadour PDF files of the Troubadour Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour Subject The topic of the resource Troubadour Description An account of the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour was a publication of the State of New Hampshire's State Planning and Development Commission in Concord, NH from 1931-1950s. 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SUBSCRIPTION: 5O CENTS A YEAR DONALD TUTTLE, EDITOR Volume XIV April, 1944 Number 1 Springtime Down Home by Alfred Evans It's springtime down home! No, I didn't look at the calendar. They're usually a little off- season, anyway. To really know spring you've got to feel it way down, deep inside. It's like love: there's no mistaking it when at last ii comes. And it seems as though each spring is more beauti- ful than the last, for we have not only the loveliness of the present, but also fond memories of past seasons. It seems as though there were always a million ways of recogniz- ing springtime down home - ground hog's shadow, grandma's "roomytiz," and so on. But I think the youngsters had about the surest way of telling the true signs of spring. From Ground ling's Day sometimes until the first of May we'd watch for those signs on our way to school, The most logical thing to look for was signs of the ice breaking up, down at the old swimming hole. That was the sure sign. No doubt about ii spring had really come even if there should be a 3 Keene, a city of thriving factories and beautiful homes, was granted by thr Massucnuaetts Bay Colony in 1733 as Upper Ashuelot and incorporated in 1753 as Keene in honor oj Sir Benjamin Keene blizzard or two we knew spring had come. And soon the ice would entirely break awaj and floai down stream. Then from the hills above the timbers would come bobbing down on their course in the mills in the Valley below. Watching those logs, listening to their thunder was a thrilling experience to all of us. Sometimes the robins and bob-whites would be singing from the trees and rails before the first thaw. We used to go over into the woods across the was from I ncle (leorge's place to watch them build i heir nests the same woods where the gypsies camped year idler year. Once one of their women folks came toward US, and we ran like the devil, for we had been told that gypsy women "stole Tht April 1944 white children and dunked 'em in t'bacca juice" in order to make gypsies out of them. Yes, sir, it seems as though we wen- all glad to see sprint . I he fact is. we were so eager thai sometimes we'd dig our boots into the ice to see if it would crack just itching to be the first to yell: "It's spring! The ice is'most broken up. Hey, folks, it's spring!" But spring didn't come only to the woods and the young. It meant renewed activity to everything and everyone. While the women folks were head over heels in house cleaning, the men be- gan preparing for the planting season. I hat was when the rafters ol the old barn fairly rang with the sounds of spring. Chains jan- gling, leather squeaking, rusty machinery whiring, and above it all -- men shouting, sometimes cursing, sometimes singing an old hymn! And out behind thebarn there was the unmistakablebawling of Aunt Josephine with her sixth calf. And there's Nellie looking its t hough her colt would be along anytime. And then there's "Papa Ferdinand" stomping his "highland laddy" jive, just to let "them young heifers" knov< that lie was with them — in spirit, anyway. And I can't remember one single spring when old Dr. Belchet didn't come driving by some early morning to say, "It's a boy at the Hopkins place! A ten pound, red-headed little devil looks like Iint. . . ." And Uncle ( n-oige would spit clean through the front gate. "An' just as no account, he'll be, no doubt." "Oh, Idon't know," DoetwinIdsay."Tim's a right good hand." " I'pecker' so. . . ." Ice a-breaking, timbers a-splashing, birds a-singing, kids a- yelling, women a-cleaning, men a-shouting! Horses a-foaling, cows a-calving, thicks a-hatching, the child a-coming to the rejoicing! That's springtime. . . . It seems as though all the world's a-singing one great love song. And I always feel as though it's (lotl's love song u hen it's springtime. "Hey, folks, it's springtime down home!" New Hampshire Troubadour 5 MORE "SMALL TOWN STUFF" by Deanne Southworth Smith It you say "Main Street" to anyone, there will come a picture to his mind of his particular Main Street in some small town where he lives, be il bast or West. To each one of us comes a cherished pic- ture, lor no matter where that small town is, Main Street means pretty much the same thing to him. "Main Street" will forever be to me, no matter where I am, Water Street in Exeter, Yew Ilamsphirc. There is the dignified and imposing Town Ihill at the head of the street, then the Bank, and the Newspaper oilier. Across the street there is the A & P, and the Drug Store, ami the Dry Goods Store, and because it's Exeter, there is a gift Shop and the Book Store. If you are a woman, you go out to do your marketing about nine o'clock in the morning, and almost every morning in the week, you will see almost every- body you know ! It is a bit like one of those large lea parlies where people gather, and yon see somebody you know across the shoul- ders, or around somebody's back. On Main Street you stop to talk to Mrs. Brown, and you see Mrs. Smith on the edge of the crowd, and there's Mrs. husk in the tail of your eye. You find out the very latest news on Main Street. Not by any ticker-tape method, but because you met Mrs. Hall who always knows the very last word about everybody. You know too, before you reach the Bookshop that the new books have come because Professor Black calls it out to you. Mr. Sampson the Agricultural Agent has been ill for quite a while, but you know he's back in his office because his huge dog who everybody knows is King on the threshold of the building where Mr. Sampson has his office. There's Helen crossing the street. You hoped you would see her to tell her about the meeting yesterday. It will save a long telephone 6 The April 1044 Exeter, home of the famous Phillips Exeter Academy, was settled in 1638: this territory had previously been known us Squamscott Falls. Exeter was the state capital during the Revolution, and the state legislature met here frequently until about 1800. conversation. If you see Mrs. King, you'll tell her you can surely go to the Garden Club meeting in Durham on Friday. You chat yourself down the street. You inquire about the health of somebody's elderly mother. You admire Jane's new baby who is out in his pram for the lirsl time. You hear that old Mr. Thompson is very low. You go into the drug store, and while you wait for Mr. Peaver to wail on you, you have a soda with somebody you knots', who is waitinii , too. The druggist thanks you for the card you sent on Christinas, and inquires for your son's cold. You go into the Hank, and Jr. Jones waves and smiles from his Cage. The President himself will bow and smile as you pass his desk. Out in the sunshine again, you pass Dr. Martin, the dentist, Hew Hampshire Troubadour 7 New Hampshire A few scenes selected specially for our boys and girls in the armed services. Top row, left to right: Sailboats on Rust Pond, Wolfeboro (Orne) Road near Walpole (Orne) Spring skiing at Tukerman (Pote). Middle row : Horseback riders at Camp The Homeland Ossipee (H. D. Barlow): Alton Bay, Lake Winnipesaukee (Orne). Bottom row: White Mountain sheep settling their early spring food problme, Mts. Madison and Adams and King Ravine from Randolph (Pote) Boiling maple sap into syrup (Pote). Springfield Town Hall and Church. Granted in 1769, the town was first called "Protectworth" incorporarted in 1794, the name was changed to Springfield. and you smile ruefully, both of yon knowing that you'll be seeing him this afternoon. If it means anything to yon to feel yourself a part of the Town, to feel that you fill a most special place in it, that you are important to people, that there is that feeling of security which comes from being known to many, and if you love that warmthth.ilcomes from being liked, and one of that important whole, you will know that you are a part of Main Street, and it is a part of you. 10 The April 1944 NEW HAMPSHIRE'S STEAMBOAT by George C. Carter IN 1793, fourteen years before the Clermont appeared on the Hudson River, Captain Samuel Morey successfully operated his steamboat on the Connecticut. His father, Colonel Israel Morey, with his wife, an infant in arms and several other children, including Samuel, then four years of age, made the journey to Orford, N. H., from Hebron, Conn, in January 1766 with his ox team. The way was through a trackless forest and unbroken wilderness, but was accomplished without accident. Israel Morey was a man of great mental force and physical vigor. Samuel developed similar characteristics and although devoted to his lumbering and saw mill, operated for the benefit of the settlers, also became an engineer and did well his part in the development of the VValpole, N. H.-Bellows Falls, Vt., area. In 1780 he began an intensive study of the application of steam power. He was in frequent conference with Professor Silliman of Yale and contributed articles to the Journal of Science. He was sure the future of shipping was with the development of steam power. January 29, 1793, a patent bearing the rugged signature of Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, was issued to Captain Morey. The invention was for a turning spit to be operated by steam. In 1799 he received a patent for a new water engine over the signature of John Adams, and November 13, 1800, there was another signed by Adams and Lee. July 14. 1813, Morey took out two patents signed by James Madison, President, and James Monroe, Secretary of State, for tide and water wheels. April 1, 1826, Morey received a patent for a gas or vapor engine, signed by J. (.). Adams as President, and Henry Clay, Secretary of State. The patent covering Steam navigation was issued in 1795 and is New Hampshire Troubadour 11 A poultry farm in Durham specializing in "New Hampshire," a distinctive breed that has won wide recognition in both North and South America in recent years now lodged with the New Hampshire Historical Society. He made the boat, built the steam engine, added the necessary machinery and made many nips rip and down the Connecticut River. At the suggestion of Professor Silliman of Yale, Captain Morcy wcin io New York with a model of his boat and with his patents. He was frequendy in conference with Chancellor Livingstone and Robert Fulton. They were most enthusiastic and look copious notes. These conferences finally resulted in an offer of $7,500 for the patents and all rights pertaining thereto. Captain Morey had previously made a price of $15,000, saying he would take nothing less. The two interests never got any nearer together and on the last visit Morey reported that enthusiasm had turned to coldness. 12 The April 1944 He promptly returned to Orford and removed all the machinery from the boat to utilize it in his lumbering and construction business. The boat itself was taken across the river to Lake Morey and sunk, thus ending a dream which he thought was never to come true, But Captain Morey, businessman, prophet and genius, built belter than he knew because wheat the Clermont made its successful trip up the I ludson it was found to include many of the suggestions and some of the patented ideas which had been brought out by Morey some years earlier. Captain Mores built a stately mansion lot himself, another for his daughter and still another was added later. Visitors to Orford on the Connecticut are entranced by these monuments to the ability and energy of a New Hampshire pioneer. New Hampshire members of the armed forces throughout the world will be able to vote in the coming election, as a result of action taken by a special session of the New Hampshire Legislature. Ihe Secretary of State will send a ballot on any informal request made by a veteran or by someone else in his behalf if the address is given. Three bills were passed to make the necessary changes in provisions for absentee voting and to advance the date of the state primary election from September 12 to July 11. The bills also facilitate voting by members of the merchant marine and citizens serving abroad with and attached to the armed forces in the American Red Cross, the Society of Friends, the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots, and the United Service Organizations. It is estimated officially that the interval between completion of ballots and election day on November 7 will be 85 days, almost double the minimum of 45 days set by the War and Navy Departments. The special session, called by Governor Robert O. Blood, opened on March 21, and the legislative program for soldier voting was completed by Legislature on March 28. The Governor signed the bills on March 29. Two additional bills, adopted to amplify existing veteran's legislation, provided poll tax exemption for widows of World War II, and property tax exemption up to $1,000 for World War II veterans. New Hampshire Troubadour 13 FRONT COVER: Tapping a sugar maple for the sap that is boiled down to maple syrup and maple sugar. (Kodachrome by Winston Pole.) BACK COVER: A modern New Hampshire farm at Walpole. (Photo by Harold Orn e.) Rockingham has been handed reports of the police officers of the town of Exeter from the year 1824 to 1856. In the earlier days the police were evidently a legislative body which met frequently and proclaimed many rules for the conduct of the citizens, some of which appear to us very amusing. A few are as follows: "June 5 (1824) William Marsh has leave to drum for four months from this date on Wednesdays and Saturdays from three to five o'clock in the afternoon in his father's field and not within eight rods of the publick highway." Exeter, June 28th, 1824 Permission is hereby granted to Capt. Daniel Gilman & the company associated under his command to use martial music on the evening of Wednesday, Friday and Monday at any time after sunrise and between that time and sunset and also to practice firing at those times. Police of Exeter Exeter, March 9th, 1835 Police met at the house of John Dodge to advise and instruct those who, when appointed to assist the police in preserving order and prevent any disturbance which may be contrary to law on Tuesday, March 10th (Town Meeting day). The following gentlemen were appointed by the Selectmen to assist the Police: Retire M . Parker John Wentworth Dan'l Rundlett Nathl Tailor Jacob Elliott John Moulton 2 The police wish each one of you to use your best endeavors to quel any riot or disturbance which you may see in the streets tomorrow and if any riot should be commenced to arrest the ringleaders or any others in the same and take them over to the gaol and commit them, they also wish you to be on hand day & evening for the purpose. EBEN PEARSON, Secretary —"ROCKINGHAM'S RAMBLES," in the Exeter News Letter The April 1944 One season one of the early settlers, Philip Jordan, had such a meager larder that he had to dig up the potato seed already planted to keep starvation from the door. Soon berries came and these, with milk, helped to keep his family alive. Mr. Jordan was always calm and self-possessed, let what would happen, and it was related that he was quite a hunter. One winter he killed 17 moose. The best of the meat was kept and eaten fresh through the winter or dried for the summer, The skins were useful for chair bottoms, snowshoe "filling," floor mats, and when tanned served to cover the children in their beds, while the moose's stocks were worn in place of boots and shoes. From History of Coos County A distributor of religious tracts — known in earlier days as a colporteur walked through some freshly fallen snow to the front door, unused during the winter as was the custom in those days, and rang the squeaky doorbell. After some delay the owner shuffled to the door in his carpet-slippers and. after a battle with the lock and holt, succeeded in opening it. "Good morning, sir." said his caller New Hampshire Troubadour RUMFORD PRESS CONCORD N H obsequiously," would you mind if I left a few tracts here?" "Not if the toes are all pointed toward the gate," remarked the host as he slammedthe door. The forest fire hazard is felt to be especially critical this year because of the manpower shortage and other conditions. For that reason the State I'orestry and Reereation Department is urging motorists, sportsmen, and Others who have occasion to be in or near the woods in New Hampshire to be especially cautious and thoughtful during the coming spring and summer season. If you are considering the purchase, either now or later, of country real estate for year-round or summer home or a farm, send for our free illustrated hook, "A Home in New Hampshire." and for a real estate specification sheet, upon which you can easily indicate what you would like to find. Our real estate bulletin service will bring you offerings without expense or obligation. Spring skiing is now at its height write us for information. New Hampshire Troubadour TO A SOLDIER, RETURNING These fertile acres wait his ministry God grant the frost be gone so he may till His land again . . . Let his returning be When winds blow clean and warm across the hill And let his hand be firm to guide the team He had relinquished to another's hand. With springtime sowing, sow a sweet, new dream Deep in his soul and let him, smiling, stand As tall oaks stand . . . as one who knows the worth Of simple things, who stands where forebears stood And in close fellowship with sky and earth, Walk down his furrows knowing life is good Let him reap harvests, soil and spirit-sown, In deep-lunged peace he fought to make his own! - INEZ CLARK THORSON in Washington Star. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State of New Hampshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context troubadour041944 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource State of New Hampshire Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour April 1944 Description An account of the resource <em>Enjoy the April 1944 issue of The New Hampshire Troubadour!</em> <!--more--> [gview file="http://nhlibraries.org/history/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Troubadour1944AprilFinal.pdf"] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1944 Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16-page booklet Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New Hampshire Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource COPYRIGHT UNDETERMINED: This Rights Statement should be used for Items for which the copyright status is unknown and for which the organization that has made the Item available has undertaken an (unsuccessful) effort to determine the copyright status of the underlying Work. Typically, this Rights Statement is used when the organization is missing key facts essential to making an accurate copyright status determination. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource New Hampshire State Library, 20 Park Stree, Concord, NH 03301https://nh.gov/nhsl Language A language of the resource eng Subject The topic of the resource Exeter Keene https://omekaclassic1.nhlibraries.org/files/original/828db67408e4c0604e4f043f71180abb.pdf 4016dcc1ca719a4e2ee50407414cee39 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour Subject The topic of the resource Troubadour Description An account of the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour was a publication of the State of New Hampshire's State Planning and Development Commission in Concord, NH from 1931-1950s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The State of New Hampshire Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The State of New Hampshire Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930s-1950s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource NHSL Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource State of New Hampshire Troubadour PDF files of the Troubadour OCR OCR of the Troubadour The New Hampshire Troubadour September 1944 A schoolboy helps out on the labor shortage of a Hampton Falls apple orchard. The soil, climate and growing season in New Hampshire produce apples that are unequaled far color, flavor and keeping qualities The New Hampshire Troubadour COMES TO YOU EVERY MONTH SINGING THE PRAISES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, A STATE WHOSE BEAUTY AND OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD TEMPT YOU TO COME AND SHARE THOSE GOOD THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE HERE SO DELIGHTFUL. IT IS SENT TO YOU BY THE STATE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AT CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE. SUBSCRIPTION: 5O CENTS A YEAR DONALD TUTTLE, EDITOR VOLUME xiv September, 1944 COUNTRY AUCTIONS by Cornelius Weygandt THE COUNTRY AUCTION that held place in public interest throughout New Hampshire with county fair, circus and town meeting is all but passed. It is following musters of militia and barn raisings, the moving of houses on skids drawn by oxen and corn-huskings on threshing floors, meetings of neighborhood literary societies and singing school into the no man's land of forgotten things. Old Home Day has come into being, and local historical societies, and larger activities for country high schools, and arts and crafts exhibits, and the movies and radio, but nothing has arisen to take just the place the auction in a farm or village home held in the life of yesterday. In all these gatherings there was the joy that lies in a crowd, or in talks with friends seldom met, or in picturesquenesses or pageantry, or in the fun of trading. There is an intimacy of human appeal, however, in the selling off of the treasures of a home, that no other sort of country gathering possesses. What people must sill on moving The New Hampshire Troubadour or to settle an estate tells you what they lived with, what they valued, what they were like. Weaving was the heart's delight of one household, books of another, jellies and jams and sauces of a third. Here are coverlets there Thomson's Seasons and Scott's Lady of the Lake, and a first edition of Poe's Tales and yonder currant jelly and plum jam and red astrachan sauce. It was the code down to 1920, at auctions at homes of any consequence, for crackers and cheese and doughnuts and coffee to be served free, by the people selling, to all comers. The last such auction I attended was at a big and well stocked house on Vittum Hill above the Bear camp. Then came the day in which you could buy goodies prepared by the local ladies' aid. Now you are lucky if there is a hot dog man around. There is heart-break in certain scenes at auctions, when, say, a pair of baby's shoes are put up, and the auctioneer reads from a tag attached: "Pet's shoes: she died February 22, 1871". Or when keepsakes of hair fall from a family Bible put up. Or when a stocking, unfinished, with needles still in it, is the item cried. In this last instance, at a farm auction under the Ossipees, a woman rushed for- ward and wrested the stocking from the slack hands of the auctioneer. Her aunt had been working on it in her last illness. You will hear spicy talk in the crowd at auctions, as that I heard between sisters-in-law by Province Lake. "So the Olins are a matter of concern and consideration to you", said Miss Olin to her brother's wife. "Well, let me tell you there are Olins need no crying up, and you are not the one can cry up those that need it " It was over fifty years ago I bought Prime's Along New England Roads at an auction of the books that had come in for review to a Philadelphia newspaper. That book was a record of driving, with a pair of horses, up into the White Mountains, and of stopping at the roadside when the spirit so moved the handler of the reins. It was there I read my first account of a New Hampshire auction. That reading whetted the interest aroused by my lather's talk of his 4 The September 1944 DORIS DAY "The Drovier's House," North Sandwich, Dr. Weygandt's summer home for the past twenty-five years many vacations in "The Presidentials", to which he travelled via Alton Bay, Center Harbor, Piper's and North Conway. His visits reached back into stage coach days. It was not, however, until I came on "Country Sale" by Edmund Blunden, that English poet whom Thomas Hardy liked best of his contemporaries, that I found a description to the life of such vendues as I have known. It might have been a sale I attended twenty years ago in Tuftonboro that he was recounting instead of one in his native Sussex. There were more old men at this Tuftonboro sale that were cast in the mould of John Bull than in that of Uncle Sam. They were red cheeked, heavy paunched, largely jovial. What an auctioneer loves is to get two bidders determined to New Hampshire Troubadour 5 Mt. Monadnock from Peterborough have a certain article. Near Moultonboro Falls I saw two men bid up a milking stool worth no more than a dollar until the more stubborn of the two paid 19.50 for it. At Ossipee Center, I bought an iron trident with a long wooden handle, and eel spear, and was hailed as Father Neptune by the irreverent as I carried it back to my place in the crowd. Over atKezar Falls the auctioneer threwme the wooden works of a shelf clock, on which I had not bid, and said: "Mr. Weygandt, you have bought that for twenty-five cents." I took the works home, where my son found in them a wheel that fitted into the works of a clock made in Bristol — Bristol, New Hampshire, not Bristol, Connecticut. It is ticking away, that clock that was once Alvie Batchelder's medicine chest, on the mantel piece of the room where I write. 6 The September 1944 Bernice Perry Pulling contasl at Sandwich Fair T. C. Ellis Pulling contest at Sandwich Fair I have gotten few bargains at auctions, but many little things that have interested me: the miniature of a charming small girl, in "The Ragged Mountains" a mould carved out of wood so it leaves the figure of a fish in relief on a cake, on the hill south of Meredith old diaries that reveal the detail of life of a century ago in Shadagee in Sanbornton, in the levelled town of Hill a felt strainer for maple sap used as a fool's cap in school, in North Sandwich. Better than any little treasures, though, are the talks I have had with friends in the crowd, and my memories of rich speech I have heard from Frank Bryer, now with God, past master of the rhythms and pic- turesquenesses of expression in our mountain English. There is a joy, forever gone out of life now that we shall never again hear him begin his crying of an auction with "Say, Folkses!" New Hampshire Troubadour 7 SCENES IN CONCORD Left to right: 1. Business section, Main St. 2. High School. 3. State House. Built 1816-19, enlarged and remodelled 1864-66 and again enlarged 1909. 4. White Park. 5. City Y.M.C.A. 6. Roll of Honor in front of State House. 7. Penacook, Ward 1 of Concord, and a part of Boscawen. 8. Memorial Athletic Field. 9. City Library, dedicated 1940. 10. Upper end of Main St. Pictures by Fred W. Davis and F. R. Wentworth Home by H. Sheriden Baketel, M.D. You ask why I have returned to New Hampshire. — New Hampshire is my State. To be sure, I was born in Ohio but since 1877, when my dearly beloved father, the Reverend Dr. Oliver S. Baketel, was transferred to Newfields, I have been a 100 per cent Granite State man. Every inch of the state, from Coos to the sea, — all belongs to me in affection. For more than 40 years, New York or contiguous New Jersey has been my temporary abiding place, but my real home has been in the Greenland-Portsmouth area, even though I owned no property there. Home is where the heart is, and for more than six decades I have looked on that section of Rockingham as my actual abode. Nine delightful years in the formative period of my youth were spent in Greenland and Portsmouth. Education goes far toward determining the future of the individual, for in the classroom, boys and girls dream dreams and see visions. If their teachers impress on them love of town and state and country, it becomes fixed, even to the extent of being an obsession, as in my case. My instructors at Brackett Academy, Portsmouth High School, Phillips Exeter and Dartmouth must have been lovers of New Hampshire, for my earliest recollections are of the virtues and grandeurs of our commonwealth, revealed to us by the pedagogues. We were taught to believe that the grass is greener, the mountains grander, the valleys more peaceful, the lakes and rivers more placid, picturesque, and the seacoast more beautiful, than in any other section. I believed it then and I do now. The countryside of England, with its regularly patterned fields, 10 The September 7944 Home of Dr. Baketel, Greenland A. A. Peterson its lakes, hills, and famous estates the view across the Bay of Naples from the Vomero on a moonlight night when Vesuvius is erupting the ancient glories of Rome and Florence the revealing delights of the Cote d'Or by the blue waters of the Mediterranean the trip down the castle-lined Rhine the flat canal-bisected lands of the Low Countries the never-to-be-forgotten peaks and lakes of Switzerland, from whence came some of my forebears in 1725 — all these scenes have gladdened our eyes during the many trips that we have made abroad. But wherever we were the thought was ever present — "this is wonderful but it is not New Hampshire." I will stake the peaceful beauty of The Parade in Greenland, on which we live, against the charms of any English or French village. No more perfect marine picture has even been painted than the view of the Isles of Shoals from New Caslle or Rye on a clear day. New Hampshire Troubadour 11 Spectacle Pond, Croydon Harold Orne The Alps are stupendous and awe-inspiring, but to me the scene from the country home of my son, Sheridan, Jr., on Sawyer Hill, Canaan, is more soul-satisfying — looking down the hill a mile or more to Goose Pond, a lovely lake, and then up the wooded slopes of the Moose range. And beyond the ridges of the Moose lieth Hanover, loveliest village of the plain — nestling to its tree encircled breast the college of Webster and Choate, the institution which fixed its place in the hearts of college men when Webster said, "Dartmouth is a small college, but there are those who love her." Oxford — Cambridge? Medievally superb, but there is only one Dartmouth. It is my hope that from my Greenland home I can continue to look out over life calmly and steadfastly, until the world for me loses itself in the twilight of time and eternity. 12 The September 1944 AUTUMN FOLIAGE By Maj. W. J. Lincoln Adams As IF to compensate us for the falling leaves of October, which will soon leave the branches bare, Nature paints her autumn foliage with a loveliness of color unknown at any other time of the year. The breathtaking beauty of these exquisite hues, particularly in the golden light of an October afternoon, is beyond all description. They grow mellower as the sunlight wanes until, at twilight, they have softened to delicate pastel shades. At this season of the year our fair, sunlit days are presaged by mists in the valleys, in the early morning, lying there like lakes of cloud, which in truth they are, until the mounting sun dispels them with its increasing warmth. The hillsides are brilliant, however, in their autumn coloring under cloudless skies, even while the river valleys are still shrouded in the morning mists. But before long the entire face of nature, valley as well as hillside, is smiling in the gen- ial sunlight of an October day. Nights are frosty and clear at this time of the year, and the con- stellations swing close to the earth the vault of Heaven seems near. You breathe the keen, fresh air from the north and you realize that summer is past. Next day, however, in the mellow sunlight you feel that winter is still far away. This is the season of magical colors. Vivid-hued foliage against backgrounds of somber greens blue skies, the whitest of clouds, and a golden sun. At night, irridescent stars in a purple heaven, and in due time the great-orbed hunter's moon. The nightly frosts, falling softly on grass and bush, are transformed to glistening robes of diamonds and pearls in the morning light. Is this Paradise, you wonder or can it be you are still living on the earth? New Hampshire Troubadour 13 Front Cover: A country auction. Kodachrome by F. R. Wentworth. Back Cover: Franconia Range and Pemigewasset River from Woodstock. Photo by C. T. Bodwell At the suggestion of Sgt. Joseph R. H. Camire of Manchester, now in Iran, we are starting a series of pictures of the eleven cities of the state. On pages 8 and 9 of this issue are pictures of Concord in the next issue we will show Manchester These are chiefly for the benefit of our boys and girls in the Service but we hope they will be of interest to our readers generally. The storekeeper in one of the rural towns inquired of the wife of a man who had been reported as "ailing," how he was getting along. "He ain't hard sick," she replied, "but he's considerable poorly." On being assigned to a Naval hospital in this Country after two and a half years' work in the Naval hospital in North Ireland, Lt. Comm. Ralph W. Hunter, son of Edgar M. Hunter, Chairman of the New Hamphisre Public Service Commission, shipped to his Hanover home a pedigreed Irish setter which he purchased soon after reaching Ulster. Three weeks later when the crate was opened at his new home Bernie Boy, alias Ginger, stepped out, sat down in the driveway and solemnly held out his right front paw to Mr. Hunter, Sr. When that had been shaken heartily he stood up and put his paws on Mr. Hunter's shoulders. That settled everthing Bernie Boy, alias Ginger, "took over" and when his master arrived three weeks later everything was well under control, still is, and there is every indication, admit Mr. Hunter, Sr. and Mrs. Hunter, that the situation is likely to continue permanently. Temple, Aug. 25 -- (AP) -- Tomorrow is Good Roads Day for this hilltop village town. Annually, men from all sections of this community turn out with tools, teams and trucks and improve some piece of road for the benefit of everyone. Townswomen prepare and serve elaborate dinners and the event is a community reunion in which everyone participates. Good Roads Day, town officials point out, is a survival of early days when "everyone got together and worked for the common good." The September 1944 DUNBARTON, July 2 (AP) -- When Town Moderator Louis H. Holcombe bangs his gavel Wednesday night at a special town meeting, this town's 500 citizens will consider a matter of importance. The question to be acted on is what color to paint the Town Hall. " Let the people rule," says Holcombe, as he explains why the special town meeting was called. One group of citizens wants the Town Hall painted white, while another favors gray. Selectman John G. Pride, William Merrill and Donald Montgomery claim they don't care what the color is so long as the building is painted. New records in both total sum and number of contributors were established by the 1944 Dartmouth College Alumni Fund with a fine total of $284,251 from 13,499 contributors. The total received is 114 percent of the $250,000 goal set for this year, while the proportion of givers to living graduates is 89 per cent, not counting more than a thousand gifts from the classes of 1944, 1945, and 1946, still regarded as undergraduates. Contributions from the more than 8,000 Dartmouth men now in Nan Hampshire Troubadour uniform were again a feature of the 1944 campaign. The bulk of this year's Dartmouth fund, raised by the Alumni Council, is expected to be added to the College's postwar reconversion reserve, started last year with $190,000 from the 1943 Alumni Fund and now totaling about $275,000. The tax rate for Monroe and North Monroe has been established at 65 cents, the same as for last year. This rate is the lowest in the mem- ory of the town's oldest residents, and is brought about by the fact that two large power developments, the 15-Mile Falls plant and the Mclndoes station, are located in the town limits. — Littleeton Courier 15 RUMFORD PRESS CONCORD. N H WHENCE COMETH MY HELP by P. L. Montgomery Here, on these hills, no sense of loneliness Touches my soul. When the long days are fine, And I can see, for miles on miles, the line Of far-off mountains where their summits press Against the arching azure of the skies, Or when the rain blots all objects out from me But the dim outline of the nearest tree, And little sounds so strangely magnifies, I am content. Peace on my soul descends. No unfilled longings rise in me to choke My will. I smell the fragrance of damp sod Whose pungency with forest odors blends, And from my shoulders, like an outworn cloak, My troubles fall, so close to me seems God. 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Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour Subject The topic of the resource Troubadour Description An account of the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour was a publication of the State of New Hampshire's State Planning and Development Commission in Concord, NH from 1931-1950s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The State of New Hampshire Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The State of New Hampshire Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930s-1950s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource NHSL Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource State of New Hampshire Troubadour PDF files of the Troubadour OCR OCR of the Troubadour The New Hampshire Troubadour August 1944 By winding roads, through pasture lands, 'Long streams thatflow by hidden ways, The graceful elms lift up their heads In mute but perfect praise. — WARWICK JAMES PRICE F. R. WENTWORTH The New Hampshire Troubadour COMES TO YOU EVERY MONTH SINGING THE PRAISES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, A STATE WHOSE BEAUTY AND OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD TEMPT YOU TO COME AND SHARE THOSE GOOD THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE HERE SO DELIGHTFUL. IT IS SENT TO YOU BY THE STATE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AT CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE. SUBSCRIPTION: 50 CENTS A YEAR DONALD TUTTLE, EDITOR VOLUME xiv August, 1944 JUNE 6, 1 944 by Kenneth Andler ON THE SIXTH DAY OF JUNE in the year of our Lord, 1944, there occurred in Europe an event unparalleled since 1066: the Invasion. On that day, too, in our New Hampshire village something took place unprecedented in local history: a prayer meeting on the Common. Of course, this local incident as seen against the backdrop of the stupendous European event was of only microscopic importance, but examination of the design of a snowflake may be as interesting and instructive as the contemplation of the blizzard of which it is a part. If anyone had told us a few years ago that it would be possible to collect from the whole town of Newport even ten people for an outdoor prayer meeting open to all faiths we would certainly have thought him crazy. Prayer meetings even in churches haven't been held for years. But such was the impact of the news from Europe that in spite of threatening weather some two thousand persons gathered for the occasion. New Hampshire Troubadour 3 The Common at Newport WALDRON'S STUDIO This day of prayer which was, of course, observed in many other places was instigated here by the commanding officer of the local State Guard company, a man not essentially religious but, as a veteran of the last war, intensely patriotic. Opened by him. the meeting was conducted by ministers of the Congregational, Meth-odist and Baptist denominations, by a Roman Catholic priest and by a leading Jewish citizen. The Common is an exceptionally large village green surrounded by ancient elms and maples. Near the center of it stands the Monument, of native granite, the statue of a Civil War soldier in rather heroic proportions. At the north end of the green a sizeable elm, set out as a sapling after the last war, grows in living memory of those who gave their lives in that conflict. Only a week before, on 4 The August 1944 Memorial Day, the State Guard had fired a volley here and a bugle had sent its liquid notes echoing out into the hills, its silvery music gathering up into one knot all the emotional strands connected with that day. Here on D-Day, near the monument, around a platform erected for the purpose, gathered the people at a prearranged signal sounded on the fire alarm to offer prayer at 5:30 in the afternoon. The speakers used a public address system. The throng was silent, attentive, reverent. There was none of the confusion usually asso- ciated with open air meetings. It was a church outdoors. An accomplished fact is a real thing, and having occurred, it is indisputable. But I venture to say that as the years go by this prayer meeting will be looked back upon with wonder and amazement by those who were there. And succeeding generations who are told about it, if they are living in normal, peaceful times, will look upon the people of this generation much as we have been accus- tomed to regard the early Puritans who conducted family prayers each day, that is to say, as very rare birds indeed and not like the flesh and blood human beings we know. Such descendants of ours if enjoying the soft and safe ways of peace will no more understand us than we have understood until lately those hardy pioneers living in dangerous times who frequently called on a Power greater than themselves for aid. In the so-called debunking age of the twenties, if I recall correctly, some doubt was cast on the incident of George Washington kneeling in the snow at Valley Forge to pray. Who would doubt that today? Who would look upon it as a curious event in a remote and vague past? On the contrary, it seems as up to date as today's newspaper. The numerous incidents, in this war. of men adrift in open boats praying for rescue, of religious services held before sanguinary battles attest to the old, old fact that in times of trouble men call upon God for help. It becomes clear to us that the people in olden times, whom we have thought to be more religious than we New Hampshire Troubadour 5 DOUGLAS ARMSDEN The Dolly Copp Camp Ground, Pinkham Notch, White Mountain National Forest are, were no doubt a great deal like ourselves, but were plunged into the shadow of overwhelming events as we have been and that we are reacting much as they did. This isn't a sermon. I'm trying to report and explain what happened here. But even an agnostic would have sensed the tremendous moving power of faith, and anyone grown cynical of America would have felt here a power greater than armaments. At the close of the meeting the assembled multitude said the Lord's Prayer. The voice of the throng was as one voice and as the words went up into the tall elms we knew instinctively that here was an America we had read about but never seen, the heart of a country of many faiths but with one mind, one enduring purpose: with God's help to free this country from the challenge of aggres- sion and to gather her sons back to their own firesides. 6 The August 1944 NIGHT SOUNDS NOT long ago we spent a night in the city. It was hot. We could neither read nor sleep. So we listened. Mostly we heard the horns of taxis. Every few minutes the roar of a train. The drumming of airplanes. About 3 a.m. a dance party disgorged noisily with shouts and laughter. Soon after that the early trucks started rumbling. Ash cans were tossed in the alley. It was morning, and we'd had about 40 minutes snooze in the bed that cost $5.50. How different are the night sounds on our New Hampshire sleeping porch. We hear the bell of the Amherst town clock, slow and mellow, and the faster strike of the Milford clock. There's something about the night striking of the old town clocks that is comforting one kind of strike we are happy to have. The other night noises are restful too. All summer we have listened to distant cowbells. The treetoads fill the night air with their shrill songs. An airplane goes over. Far away a dog barks and is answered from a different direction. A cricket starts chirping. Then far up the river a bullfrog tunes in with a deep "cuttychung, cuttychunk." Faintly we hear the rumble of a distant truck on the state road. A whippoorwill joins the nocturnal orchestra. The noises one hears in a country summer night, even to the flutter of a moth against the screen, are music, soothing and com- forting. The striking of the clocks, the distant cowbells, the sleepy twitter of a bird, the far-off frog . . . perhaps we are unkind to mention them before our metropolitan friends whose nightly slumbers are gained in spite of the din of bands, trains, trolleys, taxis and alcoholics. — A. B. ROTCH — in the Milford Cabinet New Hampshire Troubadour 7 Top row, left to right: Hooper Golf Club, Walpole (ORNE) Canaan Street sidewalk with a row of maples each side (SHOREY), year round log cabin home at Wolfeboro (ORNE). Bottom row, left to right: Summer camp girls boarding "The Swallow" trip around Lake Winnipesaukee (ORNE) The Old Swimming Hole, Gale River, Franconia (POTE) "Hey, Fellow! How's about a little boat ride for me?" Lake Shore Park, Winnipesaukee (ORNE) Endicott Rock Park, The Weirs, Lake Winnipesaukee (ORNE). BEQUEST FROM THE POORHOUSE Excerpt from "TALKS ABOUT BOOKS AND AUTHORS" by William Lyon Phelps PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, YALE IN THE POCKET of a ragged coat belonging to one of the inmates of the Chicago Poorhouse, I am told, there was found, after his death, a will. The man had been a lawyer. So unusual was it that it was sent to an attorney and the story goes that he was so impressed with its contents that he read it before the Chicago Bar Association, and that later it was ordered probated. And this is the will of the ragged old inmate of the Chicago Poorhouse. I, Charles Lounsberry, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make and publish this my last will and testa- ment in order to distribute my interest in the world among suc- ceeding men. That part of my interest which is known in law as my property, being inconsiderable and of no account, I make no disposition of. My right to live, being but a life estate, is not at my disposal, but, these things excepted, all else in the world I now proceed to devise and bequeath. Item: — I give to good fathers and mothers, in trust for their children, all good little words of praise and encouragement, and all quaint pet names and endearments and I charge said parents to use them justly, but generously, as the deeds of their children shall require. Item: — I leave to children inclusively, but only for the term of their childhood, all and every flower of the field and the blossoms of the woods, with the right to play among them freely according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against this- tles and thorns. And I devise to children the banks of the brooks and the golden sands beneath the waters thereof, and the odors of the 10 The August 1944 DOUGLAS ARMSDEN Surf near Wallis Sands, Rye, a part of New Hampshire's beautiful 18-mile Atlantic Seacoast line willows that dip therein, and the white clouds that float high over giant trees. And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at, but subject, nevertheless, to the rights herein- after given to lovers. Item: — I devise to boys, jointly, all the useful idle fields and commons where ball may be played, all pleasant waters where one may fish, or where, when grim winter comes, one may skate to hold the same for the period of their boyhood. And all meadows, with the clover blossoms and butterflies thereof the woods with their beauty the squirrels and the birds and the echoes and strange noises, and all the distant places, which may be visited together with the adventures there found. And I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at night, with all pictures that may be New Hampshire Troubadour 11 Echo Lake, Franconia Notch Douglas Armsden seen in the burning wood, to enjoy without let or hindrance or without any encumbrance or care. Item: — To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with what- ever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red roses by the wall, the bloom of the hawthorne, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. Item: — To young men, jointly, I bequeath all the boisterous, inspiring sports of rivalry, and I give to them the disdain of weak- ness, and undaunted confidence in their own strength. I leave to them the power to make lasting friendships and of possessing 12 The August 1944 companions, and to them, exclusively, I give all merry songs and choruses to sing with lusty voices. Item: — And to those who are no longer children or youths, or lovers, I leave memory and bequeath to them the volumes of poems of Burns and Shakespeare, and other poets, if there be others, to the end that they may live the old days over again, freely and fully with- out tithe or diminution. Item: — To the loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep. DEAR DON, — It's a hard time these fine days to keep an eye on the ball. My gaze roams frequently to two framed Maxfield Parrish posters that have hung on the walls of my office at this Post ever since I reported for duty. You will remember sending them to me. For three extremely hectic years these posters have served as constant reminders of the home I couldn't get away to visit. They have been balm for tired eyes and symbols of the peace we all so eagerly look forward to, beautifully illustrating our part of the America we love and are fighting a war to preserve intact. Now that I've reached retirement age, — in the Army one becomes feeble, mentally incompetent and of no further use at the age of sixty, — I am looking forward to returning home, to the clean air and the peace and quiet of the very small town in the hills of the old Granite State. As soon as I have completed the War Department business with which I am presently engaged and finally break away, I intend leaving the posters where they have been for so long, confident that others will enjoy them as I have. Thanks for them and for the help they have been. New Hampshire Troubadour HOWARD A. GOODSPEED, Lt. Colonel, CE, IR. FRONT COVER: Mt. Chocorua. Photo by Harold Orne, hand coloring by Sawyer Pictures. BACK COVER: Jackson Birches. Photo by Winston Pote. Never mind where, but this actually happened recently "somewhere in New Hampshire." A lady telephoned the police station that a strange man had followed her home and was prowling around outside. Two policemen rushed over but failed to locate the prowler and left, telling her to call them if the stranger showed up again and added the comforting information that he was probably miles away by that time anyway. The woman's two children were putting a ouija board through its paces seeking to find the inside dope on the end of the war in Europe, and it suddenly occurred to the lady of the house that she might get better service from the gadget than from the cops, so she asked the ouija board where the prowler was, and it replied that he was right there in the back yard. She looked out of the window and to her horror, there he was. Again the police were summoned, and again their search was without avail. Repressing an eager desire to seek further information from the 14 ouija board, the baffled cops re- turned tt> the police station and started a subscription to buy two ouija boards to aid in the future detection of crime in the city. "The Heart of New Hampshire," by Cornelius Weygandt, long-time summer resident of New Hamp- shire, is the author's fourth book about New Hampshire. Its prede- cessors are " T h e White Hills," "New Hampshire Neighbors," and "November Rowen." It is called "The Heart of New Hampshire" because it attempts to explain what is central and animating in New Hampshire life, as well as because it looks out on the world from a hilltop farmhouse almost within hailing distance of the geographical center of the state. It regards New Hampshiremen as the merriest of the Puritans. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, $3.00). On one occasion in town meeting there was considerable difficulty in choosing a representative. Phineas Farrar, having held that office for several years in succession, it was deemed advisable by many of the leading citizens to choose someone The August 1944 else in his stead, but being divided in their opinions, they were for some time unable to make any choice among the several candidates. A warm discussion was tak- ing place when the old Esquire entered the room. He accordingly rose and said in his own peculiar tone, "Mr. Moderator and gentlemen, let me give you a few words of advice — if you want a man to represent you in the General Court of this State, send Esquire Farrar by all means, for he has been so many times he knows the way and the necessary steps to be taken. If you wish to send a man to Canada, send Col. Joseph Frost, he has two or three sons living there, and would like to visit them. But if you want to send a man to hell send Hezekiah Hodgkins, for he will have to go sometime, and it is time he was there now." — Bemis' History of Marlborough SHORT FALLS, May 25 -- Two 300-pound pigs escaped from their pen Thursday morning and started out to see the world. Arriving at the track of the Suncook Vally Railroad, a few dozen yards from their home, they settled down to wait for the train. Doorway of the "Powder Major" John Demerritt House, Madbury, built 1723. Part of the powder captured at Fort William and Mary, New Castle, December 1774 teas hidden here and later used in the Buttle of Bunker Hill Unfortunately they chose to sit on the track, and the train was delayed some minutes while neighbors and men of the train crew labored to dislodge them. When finally corraled, they traveling pigs were all worn out by their exertions, and had to lie down in the state of collapse, for the rest of the morning. New Hampshire Troubadour RUMFOHD PRESS CONCORD. N. H. 15 I SAW GOD WASH THE WORLD William L. Stidger I saw God wash the world last night With his sweet showers on high, And then, when morning came, I saw Him hang it out to dry. He washed each tiny blade of grass And every trembling tree He flung his showers against the hill, And swept the billowing sea. The white rose is a cleaner white, The red rose is more red, Since God washed every fragrant face And put them all to bed. There's not a bird there's not a bee That wings along the way Hut is a cleaner bird and bee Than it was yesterday. I saw God wash the world last night. Ah, would He had washed me As clean of all my dust and dirt As that old white birch tree. — from "Quotable Poems" Clark-Gillespie Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Typically, this Rights Statement is used when the organization is missing key facts essential to making an accurate copyright status determination. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource New Hampshire State Library, 20 Park Stree, Concord, NH 03301https://nh.gov/nhsl Language A language of the resource eng Subject The topic of the resource Dolly Copp Camp Ground Newport Pinkham Notch WWII