Flags of Nations Float
New Ipswich Historical Society
August 26, 1950
Bicentennial Parade
New Ipswich Bicentennial Parade - Flags of the Nations represented in New Ipswich. America - Edward Lambert, UK - M. Dickey, France - Lambert, Canada - Germaine Kivela, Italy - Norma Emma, Portugal - Eva A. Willard, Greece - Dorothea Preston, Poland - Mary Howard.
William Jurian Kaula diary
Readers, thank you for your patience. I’m happy to report that our transcriptionist has returned to her duties with the Kaula diaries. It will take a bit of time to catch up. Two November entries for today. December entries are a work in progress.
8 Nov 1897
Glover has spent most of his summer in Concarneu on the coast of Brittany. Logan was there also but is now in Venice. Glover did not produce much work as they traveled about too much from place to place. He has one canvas of an interior with a figure in lamplight that shows considerable progress. It is too black to be good as yet. Logan did better with a canvas of a girl cleaning a bowl, an interior near a fireplace. It is very good in tone but somewhat monotonous in color but is painted much better than anything he has done before I met Amsden on the street. He had just returned from a visit from "Shorty" Lazar and was brimming over with enthusiasm over the criticism and "pointers" that he received. He worships Lazar and finds his instructions invaluable. "Lazar said move this cloud over here, this tree over here and change this over here, and so many other things - just what the subjects needed to make them right, and things I did not think about: it was wonderful," said Amsden. "And, he continued, you come up to my studio and I will show you so that perhaps you can apply the same ideas to fit your landscapes." Hurrah for Lazar! Push them clouds away, chop down trees, plant more grass and cut more ice.
9 Nov 1897
Creuset's place is now an international restaurant or a restaurant of all nations, if it needed a name. There are freaks galore of all types. There are six deaf and dumb men who hail from various quarters of the globe - one is half Dutch and half Chinese. He always wears a bicycle costume day and night and I have never seen the wheel and even suspect that he has no other clothes to wear. He also wears a large number of various badges on his coat, collar, and hat. Logan is the only absent one. Another new man is Martinez a Mexican whose home is in San Francisco where his father is the Mexican Consul. There are two Italian-Swiss fellows who also come from San Francisco, one is Pit and the other named Delemué. These last three men have studioes [sic] in the same building with us on Campagne Premiére. Allingham is our only Englishman. There is a young fellow named Bernard that is a poet and who is in Paris to study the life. He poses with the usual amount of poetical licence [sic] which included long hair and pieces of unsuccessful beard and talks about being both an agnostic and atheist. He has been on the "Boul Mich," to the rendezvous of the students at the Café D'Harcourt and to the Rue de la Gaité and thinks he has seen the Bohemian lif of Paris. Our anarchist is a Frenchman named D'Oriny. He has been welcome since he declared that he did not approve of the use of bombs. Kronberg is the Jew. All the "artists" that dine at Creuset 's will each present a painting or a sketch to hang on the walls so as to make the place more attractive during the winter.
On this day - December 6, 1908
James Roger diary entry
6th (Sunday)
Hard frost clear and cold. Mr. Peacock preached on the “Kingdom of God is at hand” not many present. I had to collect from the whole Church as none of the men were present. No Sabbath School C.E. topic “Consistency” 14 present. Wrote to Hamish and Jessie. David wrote to Berkley and Alice.
Who was James Roger?
WHO WAS JAMES ROGER?
Kim Black - December 2022
We've been fortunate to get a glimpse of New Ippy James Roger, and his life, by way of a diary John Rosenfelder has been transcribing. The diary not only describes James' activities and close connection to his family and the community, it also gives us an idea of what New Ipswich was like in 1908...very different yet somehow similar. Imagine what James would think if he suddenly popped into our world today!
Let's get some vitals out of the way. James was the fourth of nine children. His parents were David Roger and Janet Bone Roger with dad being a gardener's laborer in the Town of Kirkmichael, County Ayrshire, Scotland.
James was born August of 1841 and on 28 June 1867, age 26, he married Margaret Neil of Scotland. Their children, in chronological order, included Mary, Janet or Jessie, David, Alice, Marion, and James.
In 1897, James brought Margaret and their four youngest children to America. At 56 years of age, it seems James was a very brave man to venture across the waters to start a new life with no guarantees of success. However, we've seen in his 1908 diary entries how hard working he was and that he was always willing to take on whatever jobs presented themselves.
It's unknown what brought James and family to New Ipswich specifically. The 1880 US Federal Census does show a number of families with Scottish origins residing in New Ipswich: Gardner, McConnell, Beeton, Forbes, and Bolton. The 1900 US Federal Census only included two other Scottish families; the Boltons and Bells. Perhaps James or Margaret were connected in some way.
The book, History of New Ipswich by Charles Chandler, states that while in Scotland James was an elder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and member of the General Assembly. While here in New Ipswich, he had a duck farm, was a member of the school board, a superintendent of the Congregational Sunday School and a deacon.
Margaret passed away on 10 June 1913, age 74, of rectal cancer. James followed shortly after, of the same illness, on 16 January 1916. Both are buried at our Central Cemetery. James and Margaret are just one example of the many people who have enjoyed time in and contributed much to our community. There are so many untold stories about the people who have passed through this little town.
Please consider sharing with NIHS any interesting stories you might like to have published in our newsletter. References: - Ancestry.com - www.Findagrave.com - The History of New Ipswich, Charles Chandler
Who was Hamish Roger?
Kim Black intends to do some research on Hamish Roger who is mentioned in almost every diary entry. Just recently I discovered that he appears in the Bicentennial Parade as a member of the New Ipswich Fire Department.
New Ipswich Bicentennial Parade - NIFD, Carl Sillanpaas, Theodore Karnis, Chief William Currier, Hamish Roger, James Albree.
Thank you Kim (and John R and john P). it's been a treat in the past few days to see photos of so many people that were friends or part of my every day life in New Ipswich in the 50s. I worked with some, bought items from the store owners, greeted the postmaster, chief of police, got gas from service stations owners like Ted Karnis (who was also fire chief) and Mr. Maki's (later Leon Charrois Cities Service station), or snacks and cap gun ammunition from Joe Duval, seeing friends of my parents like the Howards and the Tuttles (I inherited Bob Tuttles' baseball glove which still hangs in my barn, and the many Finnish friends of my father, (the Ahos, the Someros, and the Kivelas), I could go on and on, etc.
The first photo in today's blog of the Bicentennial parade shows Joe Burton's old barn taken from the parking area of New Ipswich market own by Henry & Ruth Baker. When we needed gravel it was Joe Burton that my father called. The town was filled with very good people. It was great to be in the midst of them.