Unpaved Roads
Photos from Marion Davis Photo Album
Wapack Lodge Driveway
I wonder if these photos were taken in “mud season”
Photo taken in 1932
Turnpike Road?
From the location of the Lodge, this appears to be Turnpike Road.
Little Joe
At first I thought this was a photo of a dog, but “Little Joe” is apparently a goat.
Marion Buck
On this day - February 14, 1898
William Jurian Kaula diary - no diary entry
On this day - February 14, 1909
James Roger diary entry
14th (Friday)
Thawing all day. Wind variable. David logging for Walker. Finished today. Jim and I picked 4 chickens. He got his report card today. 71 pen. Had cows out in forenoon and heifers after roads very much cut up and slushy.
My father related to me when the roads were finally paved in New Ipswich which I’m guessing was in the latter 1920’s. Unfortunately he said, they basically paved over the old gravel roads without much prep work hence the same frost heaves and chuck holes keep reappearing that were there when he was a teenager in the 1930’s. New Ipswich also had its share of reckless driving teenagers too in those days. He was a passenger in a hot rodding teenager’s car that crashed into the Souhegan River on the cutoff near Warwick Mill in 1937 and the driver died. When he finally did get home he got no sympathy from his elderly brothers who threatened to beat him and told him that they wished he had died too!
Yeah, but I had a gash in my forehead and most likely a concussion.