Chickering Family (Part 2)
New Ipswich Historical Society
No caption other than “Gandfather” Chickering for this photo. Also no date.
Mrs. George N. Lowe (Julia Ann Chickering), a resident of Center Village.
Chickering Furniture
On this day - July 10, 1908
James Roger diary entry
10th (Friday)
Warm and sunny. David & C. Whittemore turned the hay behind Lowe’s and brought it in, also cultivated the potatoes. I turned hay in morning, bug-deathed 6 rows of potatoes and trimmed lots in Cemetery. Mrs. Sampson called today. 16 at Grange last night. Bank Village program.
On this day - July 10, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary - Why don’t they write me?
I might fill up a few pages with "answers to correspondents" for want of more enlivened material to write about. I write a great many letters and receive far too few for my trouble.
The Birth of the Fair (page 7 - 8)
This was the situation of our people, when on October 12th, 1862, the first Children's Fair was held.
At the sound of the first gun poured into Sumpter, proclaiming the breaking of the compact between the states of the North and the states of the South, the men and boys of our town had rallied and gone to the defense of the Union.
The town had made liberal provision for their equipment and for the support of their families in their absence. The women, and even the children, had banded themselves together to send supplies of comfort and encouragement to the husbands, and sons, and brothers, and lovers fighting under the stripes and stars their ancestors had loved and defended.
Only one of our three churches was open for public worship. All articles of consumption were dear and growing increasingly so; and no immediate prospect of a better state of things.
Would it have been supposed that this would have been a favorable time to seek to enlist a larger, broader sympathy in the welfare of a needy world outside of us, and some effort to better the condition of God's children needing the help we could give?
Yet it was in these circumstances that our Children's Fair was started, that has known no decadence for half a century! The effects and results arising from these annually recurring Harvest Festivals call to mind some lines of one of our early New Ipswich poets, written for a boy's speech at the Academy early in the last century:
"Tall oaks from little acorns grow, Large streams from little fountains flow."
-By the way, this speech was copied widely and I remember its insertion in the "Columbian Orator," a work in vogue in my childhood, and its having been attributed to the Hon. Edward Everett, of wide fame. Its author was David. Everett, the husband of Dolly Appleton Everett, who gave to the Congregational Church its Parsonage.
Is it strange that the same truth of unexpected results following small causes brings to one's memory also the parody of the wag
"Great aches from little toe-corns grow,"
New Ipswich was my hometown from 1942-1967. I am embarrassed to admit how little I know about New Ipswich's history. I thank the NI Historical Society for filling in some of those gaps. Schools should have a course entitled 'Local History'.