150th Anniversary Celebration
New Ipswich Historical Society
August 25, 1900
Tent for New Ipswich 150th Anniversary set up on the grounds of the Appleton Academy.
People used to dress up for events.
On this day - June 27, 1908
James Roger diary entry
27th (Saturday)
Very warm day wind east. David and Walter Hardy went for a load of summer wood over the mountains. Afterword fixed up wagons put rake and dump cart in church sheds. I hoed 2 rows of potatoes and some rows of weeds in garden. Also swept church.
On this day - June 27, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary
The young ladies had sent us an invitation to an "afternoon tea" which was kindly changed into a lemonade owing to the hot weather. We had our usual discourse on art and painting with the same old ideas and notions and gossip about artists that we have talked about a hundred times before. Everyone differs on the subject. I cannot write some hundred different views about the way to paint and what to paint and who knows how to paint. It resolves itself into one item - be yourself and mind your own business... We have seen but little of the artistic productions of the young ladies and it would be unwise for me to make any estimation of their individual ability. It is much in their favor to say that they are both serious and earnest workers that always commands respect among students. It matters not what success one may have enjoyed "on the other side" of the water - even if it was a reputation that many young artists (who have many friends) obtain in their native city; when we meet over here it cuts but a small figure as the work accomplished here is the only criterion. It is so tiresome to listen to tales of former magnificence and of glorious achievements of some of these exceedingly precocious painters who are now lost in the crowd. The homely old saying that it is a poor tub that cannot stand on its own bottom is applicable in this case. I have little to add of thrilling interest connected with an afternoon tea and am not justified in moralizing over a little conversation in the garden or while hanging over the little bridge that spans the moat when my attention seemed to be wholly drawn watching the reflections of Miss S. in the water. I have seldom attempted to describe a character because I am not a keen observer and am prone to dwell more upon faults than virtue and aimiable [sic] qualities. There is considerable difference of opinion between the young ladies on art topics and they do not have that sympathetic interest that H and I enjoy because we are both bent in the same direction. Miss S. is such a firm believer in individuality that she asserts her ideas and opinions in a positive and self-assuring manner, and it requires much skill and diplomatic tact for anyone who would enter in a contraversion [conversation?] and escape giving offense. Miss L. on the contrary, is much more open and live to new ideas and impressions and is surrounded by a more wholesome atmosphere. And I think that she realizes the difference between sickly sentiment and what the students generally label as "feeling." The mere selection of picturesque material and story-telling detail and painting meaningless peasants in graceful attitudes may be good occupation for students for a while but we expect to see or hear something from the perprator [perpetrator?] that suggests something higher and less insipid. The Salons are full of this tiresome rot and it is with pleasure that we come to a painter who has been frank enough to enjoy his eyesight and is not half-blinded with thinking, reasoning out problems of the tricks of the trade which often pass for "style, originality, individuality" and other attempts at cheap notoriety. This, in no way concerns anyone personally - it is present on all sides. In art no one meets the entire approval of anyone and, as Emerson says "we walk alone in the world."
Per Issuu.com - Never married, Claire Shuttleworth died at her Buffalo, NY home on May 7, 1930 at the age of 63. She lies buried in Holy Trinity Church Cemetery in Chippawa. Following her death, Claire’s paintings, including the Niagara series, were sold or distributed. While a few are known to be in private collections or galleries, the whereabouts of the rest are unknown.
Gravestone Cleaning Workshop
Thanks to those who attended the workshop on Saturday morning - June 25, 2022
Kim Black
Carl Toko
Jim Lawless
Betty Lawless
Sophia Wooten
Rick Blanchette
Deanne Carr