150th Anniversary of New Ipswich - Church Interior

New Ipswich Historical Society

August 25, 1900

Original Congregational Church decorated for the 150th Anniversary of New Ipswich. Text reads “GOD BE WITH YOU ALL”. Not certain about the second line, “WE ??EST AGAIN”.

HILMA STARK REMINISCES:

HANNAH, ANDREW & OIVA ANDERSON

Our aunt Hannah and her family moved to the farm next to ours. She was Mother’s sister and a lovely person, gentle and kind. Oiva was a year younger than our brother Henry, but was an only child so I guess he had a pretty lonesome childhood. One day he decided to come to our house to live. We did not take it seriously and thought he would go home for supper so no one thought to feed him. I remember him going to Mother who was milking a cow and said “I have not yet eaten”. Mother hurried in the house and fed him supper and soon his parents came after him. Andrew was a very quiet person. We used to like to sit in their garden swing. Their house was built in the 1700s and had a huge many-roomed cellar. Oiva has remodeled it, keeping the early American style, with the help of his late wife.

Reminisces  from Hilma Stark (b. 1917) who grew up in New Ipswich. She was sister to the late Elmer Stark who lived at the family place on Fox Farm Road (uncle of Sharon Anderson Rosenfelder). (probably recorded in the late 1970’s)

James Roger diary entry

27th June 1912

Cool morning; warm and dry after; wind west. David and Walter Hardy cultivated the potatoes and hoed the garden. The girls picked several hundred potato bugs. David took Mr. Newcomb to the Depot for noon train and brought up tables for Hall for Grange strawberry supper. I swept Hall, put in some wood, and cut some lots in cemetery. Corbett has been cutting the grass in Cemetery yesterday and today. Grange closed at 11:30 p.m.