Turnpike Road flooding

New Ipswich Historical Society

Flooding

Flooded field

I am reasonably certain that this is view from a field parallel to turnpike road. The building on the far right appears to be the Earl Farwell house which still stands and is across the street from TD Bank.

Earl Farwell house

William Jurian Kaula diary

7 MAY 1898

Rainy weather, though there are some beautiful effects between the showers.  The plum and peach trees are through blossoming and the apple trees are ready to come out.  There are not as many as we hoped for.  Earlier in the season it was hard to distinguish the apple tree from many other fruit trees.  I tried a moonlight effect as we had one evening when the moon rose clear before the cloud bank buried it.  I hope to get one or two moonlights each month this summer.  My enthusiasm for twilight effects is growing and the subjects are numerous when a good evening sky comes.  My work this season has been full of variety of effects and I have before me a great many kinds of skies that I have never attempted.  Mr. Dearth points out each day new things and I am so busy studying effects that I do not need the society of young people of my own age and condition.  Otherwise, it would be lonesome.  Swett does not make a very lively addition to our small number.  He is not brilliant like Mr. Dearth.  Nor is his work good

James Roger diary entry

7th May 1912 

Cloudy; wind east to southeast. David at Spoffords’. Also planting some peach, plum, and quince trees in her backyard which John Burton brought in morning. I went to mail, cleaned incubators, etc. David got a postcard from Mrs. Spofford.