New Ipswich Bicentennial - Brochure
New Ipswich Historical Society
August 19 - 27, 1950
Program
Parade Details
New Hampshire Sunday Times
NEW HAMPSHIRE SUNDAY NEWS 1950
New Ispwich (sic) To Turn Back Time
Incorporation of Town 200 Years Ago Will Be Celebrated with Opening of Old Residences, Early Crafts Displays, Many Other Events.
NEW IPSWICH, Aug. 19-The Town of New Ipswich, incorporated in 1750, is celebrating its 200th anniversary next Saturday and Sunday.
The townspeople under the general chairmanship of Herbert Preston, have been working many months on the plans, for the celebration.
Preliminary activities to the main events will be open house and historical exhibits at the Barrett mansion, the Historical Society building and the library. These buildings will be open from 2-5 each day from Satur- day through Sunday. On Saturday and Sunday tea will be served each afternoon at the Barrett mansion. An admission charge of 50 cents will be made for non-residents of New Ipswich.
The Barrett mansion will be remembered to those familiar with New Ipswich as the lovely old white house which has been closed so many years. A year ago the heirs of the Barrett fam ily gave the building to the New England Society for the Preservation of Antiquities. Now the mansion will be opened so that the public may visit it and enjoy its handsome furnishings. In addition there will be exhibits of furniture, paintings, etc., made by the craftsmen and painters, of New Ipswich of years past. There will be on display also. crafts made by present residents the town following the tradition of their forebears and an exhibit of the products of the town's industries.
Saturday, at 10 a. m., a parade through the main street of town will take place. All the town's civic and social organizations will be represented by floats. The parade will be led by Gov. Sherman Adams an other honored guests followed by the Florence Ranger band of Gardner, military units and historical floats.
The parade will be followed by a banquet at the Appleton Academy gym with the honored guests as speakers. Tickets for the banquet may be obtained by writing to Mrs. Margaret Bays of New Ipswich.
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock the Memorial playground will be dedicated. This will he followed by a band concert at the playground, under the aus pices of the Stearns-Burton Lecture Fund. At the same time there will be sports events under the direction of Playground Director Edward Forss.
In the evening at 8:30, the anniversary ball will take place at the Appleton Academy gym. This is a semi-formal dance and tick ets may be obtained from Mrs. Bays. The Red Men's orchestra is furnishing the music.
Sunday morning an anniversary church service will be held at the Congregational church at 10:45 with Rev. Everett R. Bar- rows DD, associate minister and treasurer of the N. H. Congregational Conference of Concord, as the guest speaker. A chorus of 25 voices will sing.
William Jurian Kaula diary
On hiatus, transcriptionist is on the mend.
On this day - December 4, 1908
James Roger diary entry
4th (Friday)
Cold cloudy day wind N. to W. dust blowing and wind surging with a sound of rain in it. David fixing up his two horse team as some bolts have given way. Also put on storm windows in house and fixed up little door under barn with hinges. I put leaves in hen house, also some clover hay and filled boiler. Fell and hurt shoulder chasing a hen. The joiners have been busy putting in floor in Church dining room for some days past. Women’s Relief Corps have supper tonight down town. Mr. Bucknam put manure round shrubs on Church Common and G. Sargent on Gordon’s hedge.