Woman at Barr Estate
New Ipswich Historical Society
Barr Estate
Unidentified woman at the Barr estate. Undated photo.
News Clippings
New Ipswich Pilot Back from Pacific - May 25, 1944
First Lt. Walter S. Thayer, pursuit pilot, who has completed 50 missions in the Southwest Pacific as a member of the U. S. 5th Air Forces has arrived home on leave.
The 25-year-old flier has been awarded the Air Medal, an oak leaf cluster and the Distinguished Flying Cross, the air medal being won upon completion of 25 missions and the oak leaf cluster after completion of 50 sorties.
"For extraordinary achievement" he received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Lt. Gen. George Kenney Oct. 10, 1943.
Lieutenant Thayer, a grandson of Selectman Walter S. Thayer, is a graduate of Appleton academy and Lowell Textile Institute.
James Roger diary entries
17th September 1912
Slight frost; fine bright day; wind southwest to west. David & H. Royce lifting the cement walk at Bullard House in forenoon and teaming rocks from Whitneys’ in afternoon. I chored round forenoon and fixed Hall in afternoon for sidewalk dance tonight. Wrote to Sister May at Millerton.
Fabulous story of Lt Walter S Thayer. Someone must have a treasure trove of pictures.
My father worked at Tricnit for years. I walked there in the late afternoon to bring him a hot, home-cooked supper in a stainless steel pot with a cover that had a broken Bakelite handle.