Stereoscopic Image
New Ipswich Historical Society
One of our Stereoscopic images. However no identification for people or location.
On this day - March 22, 1898
William Jurian Kaula diary
22 MAR 1898
Crécy does not appeal to Mr. Dearth any more than I had expected. For a landscape painter the character of the country is lacking in good lines in the hills, they are too flat and straight on all sides of the valley. But for the coming of the apple blossoms, which will be as good here as elsewhere, this place would lack variety. It is the town of Crécy with its moats that has made it so popular in the past. I had scoured the country last summer for subjects to paint and there are plenty of good things but not many places where anything exceptional can be found.
The rain fell again this afternoon and the clear weather is at an end after two days of sunshine. It has been too cold for much work.
On this day - March 22, 1909
James Roger diary entry
22nd (Monday)
Hard frost 20 degrees. Bitter cold, north wind all day. David teaming wood from mountain to chair shop. I walked to Greenville, and got hair cut, laundry, alcohol, &c. Wrote to Jessie and May.
Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories
Thursday, March 23 at 4:00 PM
New Ipswich Library (6 Main Street)
Presenter: Maura MacNeil
What family stories do you carry with you? What story do you tell over and over? What landscape do you cherish the most? One of the deepest human instincts is to tell our life stories, to figure out who we are and what it means to be human. This interactive workshop led by Maura MacNeil explores how the landscapes of our livesshape the stories that we tell. Participants explore the themes of family, memory, and place through sample narratives and a series of short writing exercises, gaining a deeper awareness of how their stories can preserve personal, generational, and communal history.
Maura MacNeil is a writer, editor, and longtime teacher at New England College in Henniker. She has authored several poetry collections: A History of Water (Finishing Line Press), Lost Houses (Kelsay Books), and This Last Place (Dancing Girl Press), and her poetry, prose, and critical writing has been published and anthologized in numerous publications over the past three decades, including Penning the Pandemic: An Anthology of Creative Writing from the Beginning of the Covid Era; Mud Chronicles: A New England Anthology; Poet Showcase: An Anthology of New Hampshire Poets; and Voices from the Frost Place Volume II.
I’m almost positive this is our home. The original Appleton Academy at 4 Academy Road.
I enjoy the old pictures but have no idea about the people or location. Interesting how they seem to be practicing 'social distancing':) Was this 1918? My father lost 2 young brothers in that epidemic. James and David seem to go to Greenville every day. I used to get my haircuts there also (sometimes at Oscar Greenwood's, other times at the Robichaud's, and as a teenager at Thibault's but never walked to Greenville for a haircut. Greenville was a classic self contained town. There was Bourque's IGA and Lizotte's market, Thibault's hardware, a family shoe store, a liquor store, a 5 & 10 run by John Gulian, and later by Joe Duval, a nice library, a post office (Joe Desrosiers as postmaster) drug store (Bill Cleary as pharmacist), railroad depot, Gauvin's Chevy dealer (run by Roland and Marcel), restaurants (Mrs. Newell was the best) , an inn, a public school and a Catholic school and church (Rev. Brodeur as pastor), Mason Village Savings Bank, 2 doctor's offices (Drs. Carr and Cayward), and last but not least, Nelson' Funeral Home which also served as an Emergency Ambulance service. In one emergency my sister was taken to the hospital in a hearse and the following day Mr. Nelson brought her flowers.