Bicentennial Parade Floats

Town Charter, New Ipswich Colony to Iowa 1836

August 26, 1950

Town Charter

The Town Charter float. Leo Toko, Waino Kontio, Driver - Loring Brown.

The New Ipswich Colony Float

The New Ipswich Colony, Leaves for Iowa 1836. Driver Grant Maxwell, Florence Johnson, Hazel Balch, Ralph Taylor, Minnie Maxwell of Ayer, a native of Denmark, Iowa.

On these days - November 10 & 11, 1897

William Jurian Kaula diary

Two November entries for today, catching up. December entries are a work in progress.

10 Nov 1897

Our studio is fast becoming more presentable.  We hunted up some boards and made a book-case and shelves.  It was not a skillful piece of work as we cannot handle tools.  The shelves came in the corner where a beam projected a few inches and each board had to be cut and fit after a fashion.  The ladder to the balcony must be repaired again as it is very unsafe.  The amount of noise that we make in sawing, hammering and pounding must disturb the occupants of the other studioes [sic] as we heard poundings on the walls and under our floor that gives evidence of their displeasure.  The interior of most French buildings are not a substantial in construction as the exterior and where plaster can be used instead of wood it is used.  So the walls are but three inches or so in thickness of solid plaster between the studioes [sic].

11 Nov 1897

I will not get to work in the school until next week and shall spend the rest of the week in shopping and arranging our abode - I went across the city over the river last evening with Miss Lufkin and Miss Shuttleworth to visit an Englishman named Corey.  Corey is a little man and a real nice fellow "you know" and his idea of entertaining us was to give us as much chartreuse and tea as we could stand.  Mr. Corey is in the coal business - an English firm which ships that product to all the British Colonies.  Cartwright and I were invited to dine at Miss Lufkin's studio this evening.  We had a dinner such as would make most of the art students in Paris just green with envy.

On this day - December 8, 1908

James Roger diary entry

8th (Tuesday)

Hard frost wind westerly.  Fine bright day.  David went to blacksmith’s to get horse sharpened, but too many horses were there before him.  Took Tom down in afternoon, and got him done.  He dug a grave for Wm. Davis’s mother, ground very stoney.  David got letter from Hamish last night he is well.  I got the turnips ready for Robbin’s.  Got papers from Roslin.