Cyclists
New Ipswich Historical Society
Charles Taylor Home, Smithville
Possibly Charles Taylor’s back yard
Unknown People, Date and Location
On this day - May 8, 1908
James Roger diary entry
8th (Friday)
Rainy day. East wind. David choring around cleaning up end of brooder house. Mother, Jim and I went to club house for two hours in afternoon. Cut lawns and fixed up closets &c. Had letter from Hamish who is coming tomorrow
On this day - May 8, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary - “we had our bicycles”
Glover and Logan have recommended Crécy as being such a beautiful country town that Hazard and I took a trip there to-day for the purpose of inspection. We are anxious to get away from Paris and get to work. Moret was the place where we intended to go for a while but as it is too expensive it is now out of the question. We took a train to Esbly which is about twenty seven miles out from Paris and it is the nearest point to the town of Crécy. There is an omnibus line but we had our bicycles and had a good spin over the roads for eight miles to Crécy. It is through a beautiful country, rich and feritle [fertile], very much more so than the country that I saw around Moret. We had the address of a house outside of Crécy at Voulangis which is two miles away and up-hill all the way. This is a small village composed of nothing but the peasants and surrounded by small farms which cover the valley and hillsides for miles. We found our Madam Travet and made arrangments [arrangements] to come and stay. I will leave all descriptions of the place until we get here next week.
Note: Crécy was likely Crécy-la-Chapelle which is southeast of Esbly and 40 km directly east of Paris. Today it is known as the ' Venice of Brie'.
Philip Taylor was the father of Marjorie (Taylor) Albree.