Beautiful New Ipswich

Townsman Newspaper Article

Published July 4, 1907

Beautiful New Ipswich Among the Hills

Transcription

   To the Indian the valley in which New Ipswich lies was indeed a "Pleasant Valley," and he therefore named its beautiful stream "Souhegan" The interpretation has been, given, and it is pleasant to believe it a true one. 

   A lovely valley, surely, almost completely encircled by hills. In the east, Knights and the Solomon Davis hill, from which may be seen peaks in the White Mountain region, the busy valley of the Merrimac and Nashua rivers, the Blue Hills of Milton, fifty miles away, and Wachusett, a sentinel in the South. Whittemore next, followed by Blood Hill, Watatic with twin peaks, Pratt and Barrett mountains in the west, faithful old Kidder and the Pack Monadnock group, ending in the north with the Lyndeborough hills and their neighbors, Joe English and the twin Uncanoonucs. Monadnock seems to have withdrawn from the others, preferring to stand apart in solitary dignity,

      "Lifting from his night of pines, 
        His rosy forehead to the evening 
        star." 

   A stately body guard to the quiet village in their midst.

     Quiet, indeed, but her history has always shown her to be prompt of action in stirring times, loyal to the good cause, conscientious in the performance of her duty and earnest in the education of her sons and daughters, sending out much active intelligence and keeping at home those of quieter tastes. A record and character to be maintained proudly by all who follow. A salute, then, to New Ipswich, a village of homes, beloved by her children since the remote Abijah, fulfilling, in truth, the significance of her Saxon termination. Homes which kindle the eye and warm the heart, whose ways are ways of pleasantness, whose paths are those of peace.

James Roger diary entry

December 26, 1908 (Saturday)

Frosty then warm, growing colder, wind west.  David logging at Jowder’s for Shirland.  I swept Hall, went for mail in afternoon.  Got letter from Alice, pc from Hamish & Jessie.