Reminiscences of Children's Fair (Continued)
Construction of the Fair (Continued Page 20 - 21)
Records and Reminiscences of Children’s Fair
“Seeking to make idle hours useful hours, I have written it in my old age Please accept my old RECORDS AND REMINISCENCES.” - C. H. Obear - July 8, 1911
Construction of the Fair - Page 20 - 21
A PAUSE.
After writing the above, in talking with a friend about what I was doing as a last gift to the fair on its fiftieth birthday, she made the remark, "I think it would be, interesting to the men and women who used to take a part in the speaking to see the things they said and sung with the other boys. and girls, and their names too."
The thought struck me favorably, and I resolved to put at the end of this little book I was writing, a fuller selection from former programs, and append the names of the speakers, both older and younger. It might please their children, or per chance their grandchildren to know what their parents used to speak at Children's Fair when they were little." Having returned from my digression, I will say, it may be the specimens I had got ready for the "Records and Reminiscences" may bring to the mind of some young man or woman a remembrance of their first attempt at "speaking in public on the stage."
158th Children’s Fair - August 17, 2019
James Roger diary entry
23rd July 1913
Cloudy but dry and warm. I went to Ayer by first train, leaving horse at Sawyers’ until the 2 (o’clock) train. I found May sick, suffering from sore throat and cold, pretty well tuckered out. I bought a light jacket. Brought Margaret and Barbara home for two weeks’ vacation. David choring round in garden. Him and I planted 100 cabbages in afternoon. I killed woodchuck at Miss Palmer's.
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163rd Children’s Fair - August 17, 2024
New Ipswich Congregational Church
150 Main Street, New Ipswich, NH
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