Clearing the Trail - 1930

Photos from Marion Davis Photo Album

1930

Mrs. Robinson working on clearing the trail

Mr. Robinson in 1930, two years after cutting the trees

1936

Adding a second story to the Wapack Lodge

February 22, 1936

Jaffrey Carnival. The person in the wood chopping contest is Marion Buck Davis. She won several competitions, sometimes beating men. The Friends of the Wapack plan to display her wood chopping trophy at their annual meeting this year. 

On this day - February 8, 1898

William Jurian Kaula diary

8 FEB 1898

The common people are against Zola and he was nearly mobbed when he left the Palais de Justice yesterday.  The government suppressed every effort made toward introducing the Dreyfus Affair and so Zola is tied hand and foot.  The witnesses refuse to answer questions which are state secrets and things which concern the National Defense.  It will not be possible to prove much with this state of affairs unless evidence can be produced to prove that Dreyfus was unjustly condemned.  Zola says that he was.  The government is making strenuous efforts to sustain the honor of the army.  Zola dishonors the army in accusing the highest officials with corruption.  The newspapers urge a cessation of the agitation for the good of the nation but it is too late now.  The present excitement and the shaky condition of the ministry is a grave menance {sic] to peace.  The government must succeed in preventing anyone in authority from making a statement by which they will loose [sic] control of their case.  Will the Dreyfus Case likely force a crisis?

Mr. Dearth called at the studio this morning in response to my note.  I wrote to him about my landscape.  He gave me a criticism and lots of advice and expressed some pleasure in seeing that I was profiting by his advice.  I then went to his studio and saw one of his latest works, an evening effect which I like better than anything of his that I have yet seen.  It was one of the best paintings of a night scene that I have ever seen.  Mr. Dearth has just sold two of his landscapes, one for $1,000 and the other for $800.  A few years ago, he said, he could not have sold them for the cost of the paint and canvas.

Transcriber note:  $1,000 in 1897 is the equivalent of $35,869 today.

On this day - February 8, 1909

James Roger diary entry

8^th (Saturday)

Hard frost – zero- cold NW wind all day. David teaming wood for Walker’s.  Home at 6pm.  I fixed Hall fire for Odd Fellows meeting tonight – also Church furnace fire and shelled some corn.