Soldier's Monument
New Ipswich Historical Society
Memorial Day Dedication
What is Carl Toko up to now?
As in years past, Carl Toko places flags on the graves of the veterans in the New Ipswich cemeteries in preparation of the Memorial Day Observance on May 22, 2022.
On this day - May 13, 1908
James Roger diary entry
13th May 1908 (Wednesday)
Warm day wind west to north. David on roads with Royce. I raked the Wilson and Bennet lots in morning. Also sowed one row of peas. ½ row of beet ½ row of beans and filled lamps in vestry.
On this day - May 13, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary
There are no new industries or new occupations in the town, the peasants live like their forefathers and do nothing but farming both great and small. All land is used and the hillsides have the effect of being made of patchwork in long squares and strips. The valley is like a beautiful rug of many strips of green of all shades - the spring comes so early that I marvel at seeing crops that have grown as rapidily [sic] in comparison with the same time of the year in New England. Wheat is now five feet high, the clover-fields are three-deep and in blossom. Yet the plowing and sowing is still going on. Each peasant owns but a narrow strip and often times others in some other part of the town. There are no houses between the towns, the long white roads connect the villages of which many are visible from the hill. So seen from the distance they look like a cluster or rather a bunch of stone houses with dull red-tiled roofs and the usual tower of the church that rises from the centre. Material for painting can be found in every nook. The peasants treat us kindly and allow us to work wherever we may wish.* Artists are so common in France that they are known to be quite harmless and nothing delights a peasant then to give him an opportunity to ask questions. Frank Du Mond has been here several summers with a large class of students and his name is famous among the peasants. "Is Du Mond coming" is often the first question that they ask. Madam Travet tells thrilling stories of Du Mond, Glover, and Logan and I should judge that they made the place very lively. She said that they kept them such a lively celebration that she did not sleep once for over two weeks!
* Diary footnote: This is not true as I soon discovered. We are now in constant danger from complaints of trespass. The grass has not yet been cut and the crops are growing and it is very difficult to find places where we can work without danger of causing trouble.
