Reminiscences of Children's Fair (Page 32-33)

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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

Pictures ( Pages 32 - 33)

Descriptions of items to be auctioned at the Fair

Here a peck of cranberries from the young Taylor girls, Emma and Carrie; near by, two crickets from their brother, and a rocking-chair from their father. Over yonder a kind of cage with two Bantam chickens, the beloved pets of little James or John Farwell, and close beside it, packages of nicely dried herbs from Mrs. Dana Locke, a box of beech-nuts from Alden Sylvester, a pile of squashes and bottles of vinegar and glasses of jelly from the Obear house, a high stool from Eddie Blanchard, a rare fowl from George S. Wheeler, a beautifully constructed miniature house from Martha Taylor, a box of cents saved during the year by a little girl, a basket of chestnuts and another of walnuts, box of butter, beets, onions, all kinds of vegetables, and all of the first class, and oh! what pumpkins!-tinware from Mr. George Sanders' shop, and grapes, and beans, and tomatoes-green and ripe, and strings of peppers, and pop-corn, all of the best quality.

As has been said, till later years the name of the donor and the benevolent objects to which its proceeds were to be devoted were appended to every article to be sold, and it was interesting to find where the sympathies of our friends and neighbors were; and each and all felt a commendable pride in letting his neighbor know the success he had had on the farm, and in the shop or house.

Children's hearts turned toward giving aid to other children, and the Five Points House of Industry and the Home for Little Wanderers received their readiest sympathy. This memory picture is from the shelf in our mind devoted to a period prior to 1887, when our New Hampshire Orphans' Home was less known by us than now when this institution has a liberal share of their gifts.

148th Children’s Fair - August 15, 2009

James Roger diary entry

1st August 1913

Cloudy but warm. The morning was cool and threatened rain but the sun came out. Wind south and southeast. David with Walter Thayer on sidewalks. Mr. Cummings and I played golf left off square. I bug-deathed some of the field potatoes in the afternoon. Got letter from Hamish.

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Upcoming Event

163rd Children’s Fair - August 17, 2024

• New Ipswich Congregational Church

• 150 Main Street, New Ipswich, NH

• 10 AM - 3 PM

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