https://omekaclassic4.nhlibraries.org/files/original/d3eeffa7d0799d126a58fb388dbe03c5.pdf 76e804d5d1e290817f98ec47ff562ac7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour Subject The topic of the resource Troubadour Description An account of the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour was a publication of the State of New Hampshire's State Planning and Development Commission in Concord, NH from 1931-1950s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The State of New Hampshire Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The State of New Hampshire Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930s-1950s Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource NHSL Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource State of New Hampshire Troubadour PDF files of the Troubadour OCR OCR of the Troubadour The New Hampshire Troubadour Comes to yon every month, singing the praises of Seu- Hampshire, a state whose beauty and opportunities should tempt you to come and share those good things that make life here so delighful. State Planning and Development Commission, Concord. Sew Hampshire. One dollar a year. Entered as second-class matter. May II. 1949, at the Post office at Concord. Sew Hampshire, under the Act of March 5, IH79. Andrew M. Heath, Editor Volume XX DECEMBER, 1950 Number 9 A WISH by Christine Whiting Parmenter in The Boston Post If I could have one Christmas wish come true I’d ask for Christmas such as once we knew: Snow drifts and pointed firs — A star-lit sky — A row ol stockings by the mantel high — A shining tree — a golden candle flame To guide the little Christchild when he came — And simple joys beside the hearthfire’s glow — The sound of Christmas bells across the snow — The scent of evergreens .... while high and clear On the still air the angels’ song we'd hear Transcending all in beauty now as then: O’er the whole world, “Peace and good will to men!” Frontispiece: Christmas on the farm: A home on Garland Road, Lancaster. Photo by Winston Pote.MT. WASHINGTON, HUB OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS by Rudolph A. Honkala, Observer U. S. Mt. Washington Weather Bureau Mt. Washington's 6,283 ^eet elevation, considered alone, amount to little more than a sizable hill alongside the western mountains of America. Time and the elements, however, have combined to give Mt. Washington a stature and veneer unique among its fellows. Local glaciation and erosion by wind, water, and frost have given it scenic topography. Weather has given it a premature baldness fringed by gnarled, twisted evergreens, this fringe making up as low a timber line as can be found in the temperate climes. In the tundra-like regions above treeline. flora common to the arctic regions of Labrador blooms in abundant patches of color through June and early |uly. Wonders galore, throughout the year. From late May to mid-October, transportation up the mountain operates on both east and west slopes. The automobile road winds its way up from Finkham Notch, while the Mt. Washington Cog Railway steams up from its base station on the Bretton Woods side. For the more hardy souls, hiking trails converge on the summit from all directions. Seasonal changes lend their touch. Autumn affords an unusual slant to the colorful foliage of the White Mountains. Landslide scars on the mountainsides have provided loose soil for deciduous growth, resulting in wedges of brilliant reds and yellows on the evergreen slopes. The valleys could well be likened to spokes of color in a gigantic wheel. To one standing on the hub there is a bird’s eye view of nature's artistry.Mt. Washington from Mt. Wildcat. Tuckerman Ravine is behind the birch tree at left. The early snows of October leave the mountain largely to its isolated summit inhabitants, pursuing their scientific endeavors through the winter months. Fatalities which have occurred on the slopes of Mt. Washington attest to a severity of weather second to none. The highest wind velocity ever recorded, 2 3 ■ miles per hour, was clocked at the Mt. Washington Observatory, April 12. 1934. January 1950 saw the wind reaching velocities over 70 mph. on twenty-four different days, over 100 mph. in four of these cases. The six-month period, November 1949 through April 1950 could lay claim to but twenty-two days free of obscuring clouds. This “worst inhabited weatherin the world" has brought Mt. Washington to the lore as a geographic pioneer and leader in the field of icing and cloud physics, important to the airlines, government weather studies, and to other industry. Late April finds the wintry blasts subdued lor the most part by the warming of spring sunshine. The influx of spring skiers is on. Tuckerman Ravine, located south of the summit, has its yearly accumulation of snow deposited to depths over a hundred feet by prevailing westerlies through the winter months. Tuck- erman's “corn snow" draws skiers by droves. Any sunny May day will see enthusiasts numbering in the hundreds, skiing and basking in the bright sunshine of the nation's “snow bowl." The diehards of the sport can be found picking their way over rock-studded patches of snow through most of the month ol June. Skiing at Black Mountain. Jackson. The structure is the upper terminal oj the Black Mountain ski lift. HOLLANDThrough the months Mt. Washington takes on its seasonal attractions, and year after year picks up a host of admirers. The attachments it forms are strong. Whether the tourist stays at one of the fashionable valley resorts, at tourist homes, ski lodges, cabins, or pitches his tent by a mountain trail, at the end of his stay his parting shot is, "See you next year.” PIONEER POTTERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE by Lura Woodside Watkins From her recent book. Early New England Potters and Their Wares The earliest potters in New Hampshire lived in the towns along the seacoast. Just when the first of them built a kiln cannot be determined, but it is known that Henry Moulton and Samuel Marshall of Portsmouth were plying their trade- in the 1720’s. Neither one was the son of a potter — a fact that suggests the presence of still earlier craftsmen in their vicinity. During this same period, Nathaniel Libby, who attained his majority in 1751. was also making redware in Portsmouth and possibly working with Marshall. Libby went to Exeter in 1742 43, where he was a potter and storekeeper. Libby died in 1752. Two years later the younger Daniel Edes of Charlestown was in Exeter. It seems likely that he made an attempt to take Libby’s place as the town potter, but his stay was brief. Whether any other person tried to run a pottery in Exeter between this date and the time when (abez (Jabesh) Dodge set up a new shop is uncertain, (abez was the son of Benjamin Copyright. I ‘>50. hy the President and Fellows of Harvard College, lie- printed by permission of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Book announcement is on page 14.)WALTER DUNLAP Examples of Rumney, Orange. Boscawen, Keene, and Millville pottery from the collection of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord. Dodge, a chairmaker of North Beverly, Massachusetts, and he probably acquired his craft in Essex County. He was born in 1746/47. As he married Lydia Philbrick of Exeter in 1771, it is safe to assume that the Dodge pottery began at about that time. Dodge's four sons were all trained to be potters. The third son of Jabez Dodge — Samuel, born in Exeter in 1783 — remained with his father and is said, on the authority of Frank Lamson, to have built the Exeter Pottery Works in 1819. Many potters went to Exeter to serve their apprenticeship or to make a brief stay on their way to setting up their own establishments on the frontier. It is noteworthy that a number of the Maine potteries were started by men from Exeter. According to the Haskel and Smith Gazetecr (1843) there were three potteries in 1840. During the Dodge ownership the Exeter pottery turned out the usual articles made in early shops. The earthenware was a light red in color, with glazes often pleasingly varied or mottled. The Lamsons produced large quantities of strictly utilitarian ware, such as jugs, milk pans, lard pots, bean pots, pudding pots and pans, and other cooking dishes, toilet articles, cuspidors, and chimney safes. These objects were given a glaze of uniform coloring. In the seventies and eighties, vases and fancy jars and jugs were made. Flowerpots of various kinds were the principal output in the closing years, the first style being the kind with an integral saucer; these were superseded about 1890 by the familiar straight tapered pot without glaze. The skill of John Donovan proved that these could be made on the wheel with sufficient uniformity to he nested, thereby facilitating kiln setting and packing. They were, however, soon outmoded by mechanically formed flower-pots. The Lamson redware was sold from carts to hardware and general stores in the surrounding cities and towns. A great deal of it went east to Newbury- port, Hampton, Portsmouth, and Rochester, or to Derry and other points west. From Danvers records we learn that Jedcdiah Felton, an apprentice of Joseph Whittemore of Andover Street, Peabody, went to Mason, adjacent to New Ipswich, in 179$. Accordingly, while still remaining “in the vicinity, Jedediah could have been the “Felton from Danvers ' who was one of the first men to establish the potter's business in Chesham or Pottersville.It must lie explained that Chesham is the new name and Pottersville the old, tor a settlement, once part of Harrisville, that lies between Marlborough and Dublin. Pottersville was the most important community of clay workers in southwestern New Hampshire, and earthenware was sent out from its kilns far and wide through New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts, ('lay of excellent quality was dug from an inexhaustible lied a short distance south of the schoolhouse. The industry was at its height just after the War of 1812. when eight or ten shops were operating in the district. The business then suffered a gradual decline, partly because English white crockery had come into use, and partly on account of the low price of tin ware. Eventually the potters were obliged to manufacture large ware and flowerpots only. In the early days, red- ware in this section of the state was a kind of currency that could always be exchanged for grain or other products. Eben Russell, with his son Osgood N., [carried] on what he called the “Dublin Earthen Ware Manufactory.” Several bills of sale put out by the Russells and now in the possession of F. H. Norton show that they were still running in 1858, although they gave up the management of the pottery before i860. These bills are of the greatest importance in showing what the redware potters were making just before the Civil War. A bill dated November 18, 1850, is headed “Eben Russell & Son Manufacturers of Brown Earthen Ware" and is receipted by O. N. Russell. The articles listed are pots with ears, pots and covers, pots for lard or butter. “() bean pots," bread and bake pans, jugs, preserve pots, stove tubes, shaving mugs, scalloped and plain glazed flower-pots, pitchers, stew pitchers and covers, pudding boilers, milk pans, wash bowls.ERIC M. SANFORD Ski slope and Recreation building at Belknap Recreation Area, Gilford. quart and pint bowls, chamber pots, and pie plates. The “()" bean pot is presumably the old-fashioned open variety, in contrast to the newer covered bean pot lor use in stoves. From the Pottersville district many craftsmen whose names are familiar elsewhere went out to improve their fortunes. The 1 lampshire Pottery of Keene is well known in New England, and its vases are still to be found in many homes.As a commercial enterprise, it was New Hampshire’s most successful works. The Hampshire Pottery began its existence as a redware factory. It was started in 1871 by James Scholly Tatt and his uncle James Burnap. On July 6, 1871, Taft and Burnap bought the Mile Stone Mill, which had been making clothespins and other wooden ware, and converted it into a pottery. Surrounded by land rich in clay, the building stood on the bank of the Ashuelot River. Another Keene pottery was also erected in 1871 by the firm of Starkey and Howard. Starkey and Howard soon washed their hands of the pottery business. In June 1872 they sold the works to W. P. Chamberlain and E. C. Baker. Under this style, the firm continued for nearly two years, until, in March 1874, it was acquired by Taft. Taft's stoneware, decorated with motives in cobalt blue, was fashioned into the usual sturdy vessels and containers. A bill headed “Main Street Works Keene Stone & Earthenware Manufactory" shows that in 1876 this branch of the output was no different from that of other makers of this ordinary ware. It itemizes jugs and molasses jugs, butter and cake pots, covered preserve jars, pitchers, churns, water kegs anti spittoons. The New Hampshire Gazetteer of 1872 gives the value of redware and stoneware made in the Keene potteries as thirty- five thousand dollars annually. Although not a pioneer pottery in the sense ot belonging to an early settler, the stoneware manufactory of Martin Crafts at Nashua was the first of its kind in New Hampshire. Indeed, with the exception of the one just mentioned at Keene, it was the only stoneware concern in the state. Both local history and the data compiled by James M. Crafts give the year of its establishment as 1858. The Nashua Directory of 1850 contains this notice: “Stoneware Factory/ Commenced 1838/ Martin Crafts, Proprietor/ Amount of Business annually Si6,000/ Employed 9 hands,” F. H. Norton, who quotes this item in his article “The Crafts Pottery in Nashua, New Hampshire,” which appeared in Antiques (April 1931), estimates that, with an average price of thirty cents per piece, the pottery must have turned out fifty- three thousand pieces in a year. It was therefore no small enterprise. A price list of the 1840 s in my file enumerates the following articles in various sizes: jugs, water jugs, butter pots (straight), with covers, airtight butter pots, butter boxes, preserve or pickle pots, with covers, cream pots, with and without covers, churns, pitchers, flowerpots, bean pots, pudding pans, mugs, beer bottles, spittoons, kegs, and ice jars with covers. Skating scene at Warner during the outing last winter enjoyed by employees of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. COURTESY JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANYFront Cover: Winter scene at Lancaster. Color photo by Winston Pote. Back Cover: Mt. Lafayette as seen from a New Hampshire road in winter. Photo by Douglas B. Grundy. 4 NEW HAMPSHIRE BOOKS AND AUTHORS Early New England Potters and Their Wares, by Lura Woodside Watkins, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, $10.00, 291 pages and 63 pages of illustrations, includes much new and previously unpublished material. The book is the first complete history of New England pottery, provides sidelights on social and economic history, is expected to be the standard authority for a long time to come, and will prove invaluable for amateurs, connoisseurs, collectors, craftsmen, and designers of pottery. Guardian Heart, a novel by Elizabeth Yates of Peterborough, Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, $3.00. Sea Haven, New England poems by Adelbert M. Jakeman, Falmouth Publishing House, Portland, Maine, $2.00. A number of the poems in Mr. Jake- man's first full volume since 1940 have appeared in the troubadour in the past decade. 4 An editorial in the Concord Monitor, after quoting facts on traffic safety, industrial records, per cent of old people, low crime rate, and war service, continues: “These are facts which mean something, and what they mean is that New Hampshire people as a whole are among the best citizens in this great nation. It means that New Hampshire people live more moderately and more wisely, yet with a sense of stolid patriotism. It means that New Hampshirepeople come closer to living as all Americans aspire to live than do the people of almost any other state. “New Hampshire is not a states of excesses. It is not big territorially. It is not over-populated. It is not all one thing, but many things, geographically, economically, socially, and even politically.” 4 The woodland owner's seasonal guide, issued by the New Hampshire Forestry and Recreation Commission, contains twenty four pages of helpful and interesting information for woodland owners. The illustrated pamphlet devotes two pages to each month of the year, with suggestions on care of trees, harvesting of sawlogs, pulp logs and fuelwood, maple syrup and sugar making, thinning ami weeding of woodlots, how to identify and control the various diseases of trees, and other practical data. A bibliog raphy of reference books and pamphlets on the various subjects enables the woodland owner to study further. The booklet was prepared for small woodland owners such as farmers, summer home owners and rural residents, and was first issued in December, 1946. It may be purchased for twenty- five cents from the Concord office of the Forestry and Recreation Commission. 4 1822: A young lady buys material for a bonnet — i/z yds. Green silk... .$1.50 Zi “ millinet 50 /> sheet pasteboard 06 1 Zi yds. green ribbon.. .31 1 skein silk 06 2 yds. wire 04 paying Miss Crosby for making bonnet —... .50 — Sent to the editor bv Mrs. Edith W. West, FitzwilliamWINTER MOONLIGHT by Pauline Chadwell The forest’s smooth expanse of snow Is etched with lines of ebony. As shadows mark the lengthened shape Of every hare-branched, rigid tree. The silver moonlight’s icy flow Has crystallized white beauty’s land. Whose objects stand in silhouette — Like carvings of a sculptor’s hand. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 4677Troubadour195012 Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour December 1950 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1950-12 Description An account of the resource The New Hampshrie Troubadour was a monthly publication of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission. The magazine was printed between 1931 and 1951. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16-page booklet Language A language of the resource eng Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New Hampshire, Lancaster, Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. New Hampshire State Library Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No Copyright - United States Subject The topic of the resource Mt. Washington, skiing, crafts, skating Type The nature or genre of the resource Text crafts Lancaster Mt. Washington New Hampshire skating skiing