Mrs. Emerson Howe
New Ipswich Historical Society
A Look Back - 148th Children’s Fair - Aug 15, 2009
Happy August. The 161st Children’s Fair will be held on August 20, 2022 at 10 AM on the grounds of the New Ipswich Congregation Church at 156 Main Street, New Ipswich, NH.
On this day - August 1, 1908
James Roger diary entry
Fair and warm. David went to Club House in morning and afternoon. I went to Depot and met Berkley & 2 children by 2 train. Mother, Alice & Jessie cleaned Hall. I was sick and went to bed in forenoon.
On this day - August 1, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary
We have about finished with Voulangis and desire a change of scene and will go to Crécy for the rest of the season. Hazard has about completed the canvas with the model in the garden and my chief work is at Villiers - a canvas 40 in. long by 31 wide and it will be as convenient for me to go there from Crécy as from here - I want to paint another at La Chapelle later and the rest of the boys are planing [sic] work in that region. I have a few small things under way around the moats at Crécy as well.
Records and Reminiscences of the New Ipswich Children’s Fair from 1862 to 1911 - Songs and Poems (pages 53 - 54 )
LIFE'S BATTLES.
ELON TANDY and MELVIN WHITNEY.
First Boy-The seasons come, the seasons go They go, and come again; So swift they fly, that you and I Will soon be grown up men. Our fathers will grow old and gray, While we grow tall and strong. To take the weapons they lay down, And help the world along, In the defence of right and truth, Against the false and wrong.
Second Boy-We need not wait for height or strength The battle to begin. The weak and small, or strong or tall Can moral battles win. We fit ourselves for soldiers true, Whatever else may come. Then let the seasons come and go, If souls as well as bodies grow.
STORY OF THE CHILDREN'S SHIP-THE "MORNING STAR."
Sent out by the Sunday School Children.
First Child.
Afar from the mainland by night and by day. A lone little vessel, in and out, makes its way 'Mid isles of the ocean that in beauty bright. Lay like glittering gems in the sun's fair light With their kingly palms that gracefully rise With feathery beauty towards the bright blue skies, Circling emeralds, like crescent moons, Enclosing the waters of smiling lagoons.
Second Child.
To the eye all is beauty, but God's gifts are strown In lavish profusion where He's all unknown. And cunning and bloodshed make the heathen who dwell Amid deeds of darkness, we shudder to tell.
Third Child.
The lone little vessel sails over the seas, Proclaiming the Gospel of gladness and peace. And isle after isle receive the glad light The "Morning Star" brings to scatter their night. And the Sunday School children on a Christian shore Proclaim the glad tidings again, and once more, That they, who in darkness and ignorance grope. Are gladly receiving the Christian land's hope Of a land far beyond their sea-girt isles Which basks in a loving Father's kind smiles. A land where grossness and error shall cease, And from all earth's sorrows they shall find a release.. And nations and peoples before Him shall fall The Maker, Redeemer and Lord of us all.
The first known photograph of a person was taken in 1853 according to Wikipedia. Mrs. Howe's photograph had to be a close second. Is there date for this photograph?
Curious to know more about Mrs Howe. Her maiden name was Sarah Adams Rand and she died in 1853 at age 37 after giving birth to her second child.