https://www.omekaclassic4.nhlibraries.org/files/original/2e14e06db202372fb4a7a8eafad8003f.pdf 3cbfabd3fed1825687195081e6dc3be1 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 TROUBADOUR NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE LIBRARY Governor Charles M. Dale and Family The New Hampshire Troubadour COMES TO YOU EVERY MONTH SINGING THE PRAISES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, A STATE WHOSE BEAUTY AND OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD TEMPI' YOU TO COME AND SHARE THOSE GOOD THINGS THAT MAKE IIII HERESODELIGHTFUL.ITISSENTTOYOUBY THE STATE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AT CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE. FIFTY CENTS A YEAR VOLUMExvi THORSTEN V . KAUJARVI, editor January, I 947 A New Year's Greeting! NUMBER 10 TONIGHT the New Hampshire hills lie silent and snow-blanketed under a motionless s\ irl of brilliant stars. The cheerful lights of town twinkle, and the streets arc almost deserted. This is a scene of peace and contentment, an ideal setting in which to con- template the challenges and promises of the new- year. To all TROUBADOUR readers I wish a happy and prosperous New Year, with success in meeting the problems of the day and of the future. May this new year bring you increased health and happiness! New Hampshire Troubadour CHARLES M. DALE Governor 3 THE GREAT WHITE HILLS by Ernest Poole (Excerpts from the book with the same title.) Most of us in these mountains now look for an immense increase in skiing and other winter sports, skiing is oldet than most people know. More than a thousand years ago historians in China spoke of the Snowshoe Turks, the Kirgiz and Bayerku and Liu-Knei tribes, who on "snow sucks" skied in Siberia and north ol the Gobi Desert and far up in Kamchatka. In these last decades, in Siberia, New Zealand and Australia the sport was revived and in Europe it spread from Norway and Sweden, Germany, Austria and the Swiss Alps all through the Balkan countries and down to Greece and France and Spain and the ace skier of Italy told me just before the war that 70,000 were skiing from XIt. Aetna m the Alps. Countless thousands of ski troops were trained and their numbers were multi- plied in the war. From these hills Walter Prager, Selden 11 at ma and little Dick Durrance, American champion, trained ski paratroops in the Rockies. Thousands of their pupils served in Alaska and over- seas. Will they stop skiing when they come home.' I doubt it. Once you've really learned the game, you never want to give up this racing down the mountain runs. Moreover, as the life of this nation speeds up for most young people, they will want ski centers close to their jobs and for the eastern pari of out country this high region is (lose even now , and soon the air services being planned from the cities will bring it closer still. So it is thai our prophets are talking of week ends when all through the great White 11 ills tens of thousands of skiers will come dovt n in great airplanes from the sky for two dats of while magic here, and in Summer busy men in New York 4 The January 1947 may lly up in an hour or two for week ends with their fami- lies. So this mountain area will be i ipened up as never before, as a place for the raving of recreation and rest in our summer and winter sports, in boarding schools and slimmer camps, hotels and sanitaria. The lish and game resources will be developed and increased so will die nails and mountain Inns, ski runs and jumps, snow carnivals. And these will be by no means only for mere visitors, for all these activities will keep here thou- sands of our young folks who in die pasi drifted oil'to the towns, and to diem will be added thou- sands of others weary from war and tired of eilies. who will come and settle down, some to run ski inns, stores and shops and others to teaeh in schools or to help in our .sanitaria. For young doctors of die both or mind I know no liner work in life than to develop mountain homes for boys disabled or exhausted by war, to put nets life into litem and either send them back reach to cope with cities or keep them here and lit them into work in this new life in the hills. [thousands of young couples, loo, will come up and buy old latins. i modern methods and modern tools die farm labor will be .Yew Hampshire Troubadour Monadnock Mt.Jram Petarborough EAMES STUDIO Ml. Adams from die glen somewhat eased and made to produce as never before, and close ready markets will be here. Wood lots will be developed, too our larger forests will be conserved and tlicir products will be used in big and little shops and mills to give employment the year around. Easy? No. On farms the labor will still be hard, weaklings will be weeded out and only the strong left as new permanent citizens. But for all hill lovers a grand clean life is waiting here, nor will it be lonely as in the past, for not only will the airplane, the automo- bile and the telephone bind us all by closer ties, but to us in these mountain homes the radio and television will add their service to that of the city newspapers which come here now. The noted con- ductor Stokowsky once spent a couple of nights in our house and he prophesied that to countless homes will come the music of great orchestras not only from this country but from all over Europe, too, while the art treasures of the world will be pictured by tele- vision. "When you wish to see some lovely old Chinese vase in a museum overseas," he declared, "you will go to your telephone in the morn- ing and ask that it be shown to you, for a small charge, perhaps to- 6 The"January1947 HAROLD ORHE night at nine o'clock and at that hour on your screen that same lovely vase will appear, and a scholar speaking in English will tell you about it as he turns it this way and that." So even to our mountain homes the future world may come at night. But outside there will still be the deep pine forests all around and the mountains looming high against the frosty silent stars. In a million million years from now, by slide and erosion they will be levelled nearly down to our valleys, so the geologists say. But mean- while men will still look up to the hills whence cometh strength for bodies, minds and spirits in this tumultuous world of ours. BOSWORTH OLD HALL RUGBY HUBBANDS BOSWORTH 286 E d ito r: NEW HAMPSHIRE TROUBADOUR Dear Sir: Though, alas, I may not be a "prospective motorist" in New Hampshire, could I please have a copy of your "Autumn Foliage Bulletin"? I expect that it isn't enough sweet agony for me to re- ceive the TROUBADOUR each month — that I must tear the wound which was caused at parting nearly forty years ago with more vi- sion of the countryside I love so well. I expect that the enchantment of remembrance makes me believe that each stick and stone of New Hampshire has special virtue, that nowhere else on earth do the brooks run so gently, nor is the air so golden, no lakes are ever so sparkling, no birds so melodious nor flowers so lovely. Where else do tiger lilies consort with a wayside post-box, or blue-birds sing among pink apple blossoms against a clear crisp sky? Where ever else can sunshine be silver on the bark of birch trees and golden on their leaves — sparkling living sunshine — unhampered on its way from Heaven? Neiv Hampshire Troubadour 7 October 14, 1946 I have much for which to thank my friendly countrymen — especially during our need in England —but to whomever has caused the I Rtn HAOIII i< to be sent to me so regularly I owe a debt of gratitude which it is hard to explain for it comes from the vers mots ol my being the very heart of m soul which receives so much joy from your little publication. Am 1 overbold in asking for further courtesy? tf so I hope you will forgive my longing. Very truly, 1 lit IN ( Avmnii.i. P.S. It may be of interest to you to know that I pass uw eopv on to the Headmaster of Rugby School — there he and the youth of England may learn of beauties of our home stale. THE BATTLE OF MT, WASHINGTON Lf <L. y. Eoiktr The time came when our peaceful kind Was faced with warring change An enemy swept in and took The Presidential Range. Their generals found upon the map Mi. Washington's elevation "Now that's the place," they cried, "for guns! A post for observation! "East's highest point, with train and road - Oh, militan blisst Don't bother with the oilier peaks, We'll concentrate on this." 7 he January VW m >-^r*> j€ 10 They sent up troops with guns and bombs And watched for bloody news But weeks went by. They onlv got White Mountain post card views. When scouts were sent to stir things up, The scouts would disappear And send back coded messages: "Grand! wish that you were here!" The generals said, "We'll see ourselves—" They found there was no seeing. Mt. Washington was in a cloud. But they enjoyed the skiing. No observations could they make To fire off a gun. The snow went but the cloud remained The trails, they learned, were fun. So when the cloud blew off they were Too busy with the quest: Was Huntington or Tuckerman Or King Ravine the best? Just as they found the lesser peaks Were quite as good for play, The war came to an end and they Were told to go away. And, as they packed their rusty guns In sad evacuation. They murmured, "Let's come back next year For our two weeks' vacation!" The January 1947 SINGING YANKEES by Lewis Gannett THEY say that Americans arc not a singing people, but there is the record of the Hutchinson family to confound such skeptics. Philip D. Jordan, a history professor with an obvious frustrated passion to become a novelist, tells their story in "Singin' Yankees" (Univer- sity of Minnesota Press, S3.50). The Singing Sons and Daughters of Jesse It was about 1839 that signs were posted on the Town House of Milford, N. H., and in the covered bridge, proclaiming that "The eleven sons and two daughters of the tribe of Jesse will sing at the Baptist Meeting-house on Thanksgiving Evening at 7 o'clock." Old Jesse Hutchinson liked to hear his children chant the anthem written to commemorate the conversion of Deacon Giles's distillery into a temperance hall: "King Alcohol is very sly, A liar from the first, He'll make you drink until you're dry, Then drink because you thirst." But Jesse got tired of the eternal noise he made his children practice outside the house, behind a rock in the hay field, and he refused to contribute a cent when four of his offspring set off for Boston to study singing. They earned their way one as a type- setter, another sawing wood, and two tending store. One, to his own distaste, even served rum and whisky by the glass, which was then a normal part of grocery-store routine. They called themselves the "Aeolian Vocalists" when they gave their first pay concert by candlelight in East Wilton, N. H., for a net profit of six and a half cents. Already they had composed, and set to gospel music, the song that was to make them fatuous, "We've come down from the mountains of the Old Granite State," ending New Hampshire Troubadour 11 with a recitative of the thirteen Hutchinsons' Biblical names. In the summer of 1842, in a two-horse $75 carryall, three brothers and twelve-year-old sister Abby set out on tour upstate to Dartmouth, across the Connecticut River to Woodstock, Yt., down through Saratoga Springs to Albany and back East to Boston. Musical suc- cess came faster in those days than in this. The success of the Hutchinson family's first concert, in Melodeon Hall in Boston, on Sept. 13, led them to engage the hall again on Sept. 17, and to give a third performance on the 20th. "Get Off the Trad'' I lies sang temperance songs, a tear-jerker called "The Vulture of the Alps," and stirring anti-slavery songs composed by the Hutchinsons themselves, such as "Get Off the Track" ("the Emancipation train is coining") and "lite Bereaved Slave Mother." The public loved their home-grown balladry. The) even sang in Xiblo's Garden and Saloon in New York for a fee of $50(1, which must have hurt their teetotal consciences. They toured England, and while London was cool, Charles Dickens invited them to dinner and the provinces welcomed them, Then came trouble. The stay-at-home brothers were jealous the) formed a rival troop, billed under the same name and singing the same songs. The original group broke up. Some of the boys married, and the wives wanted to sing, too. Some formed other partnerships at one time five dillerent Hutchinson combinations were on tour. And eventually their insistence upon anti-slavery songs got them roundly hissed in New York and barred from the halls in St. Louis. For almost half a century some of the singing the Hutchinsons were on tour. One group of Hutchinsons toured the mining camps of California in the 1850s. Another helped popularize "John Brown's Body" at the beginning of the Civil War it was they who made 12 The January l<>17 "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" familiar toward the end of the war. Mr. Jordan acutely points out that the early Civil War songs were belligerent, the later ones homesick, as in other wars the author and composer of the mournful strains of "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," an old New Hampshire friend of the I lutchinsons, was a soldier himself. One of the original group died of a fever, but his voire continued to be heard, by William Lloyd Garrison among others, at the spir- itualist seances conducted by the fox Sisters. One became insane and committed suicide. Still another helped found twin pioneer communities, named Harmony and Hutchinson, in Minnesota. Singing for Pence John Hutchinson survived longest. It was he who. at Cooper Union in 1870. put across "The Drunkard's Child" ("You ask me why so oft, lather, the tear rolls down my cheek. . . . It breaks my heart to think that 1 ant called a drunkard's child"), lie sang at the Republican National Convention of 1892 and in 1905 went to Portsmouth to sing the disputing Russians and Japanese into peace. He was eighty-four at the time. The outlanders didn't listen to him, but a fifty-year-old singing teacher front Washington fell in love with him and married him. All this is rich Americana. Unfortunately, to get at the gist of the story, one has to wade through Mr. Jordan's earnest efforts to repro- duce Hutchinson family conversation as he thinks it may have sounded. Mr. Jordan is belter as historian than novelist, and the facts are eloquent enough without fictional grace notes. For the Ilutchinsons were American folk singers of significance. From our smug plateau of 1 ''46 it is pleasant to recall that a century ago they were singing "There's a good time coining, boys, A good time a uniug. . . . Nations shall not quarrel then. To prove which is the stronger." — From the New York Herald-Tribunt New Hampshire Troubadour 13 FRONT COVER: M t. Jefferson from the glen between Pinkham Notch and Gotham. Color Photograph by Winston Pote. BACK COVER: New Hampshire winter. Eric Sanford. PAGE NINE: Tuckerman Ravine. Victor Beaudoin. ^jor September 17,1946 Thorsten V . Kalijarvi, Editor TROUBADOUR Concord, New Hampshire Dear Sir: One ofour great pleasures at our summer home Deep Shadows," located on the side of Bald Mt., West Campton, N . H . (seven miles north of Plymouth) is to watch nightly for the turning on of the beacon light .11 mountain station, Iramway, Cannon Mt.Thelight must b e a t least thirty-five miles away b u t w e see it clearly from o u r sightly home. It shines brightly like a great star, and we often won- der o n h o w many other homes it is casting its warm hospitable glow. Would it be possible to arrange alittlewriteupabout itinTROUBA- ln1!k.'I,o(atedasilis,nearK inthe centre of the state, it must have b e - come dear to hundreds. 1 1 Cannon Mountain from our Cottage resembles a prostrate child — We call her Baby Stuart — In the morning when t h e s u n shines brightly on the rose colored ledges which form the left wall of Franconia Notch we see her as a strawberry blonde — She is our breakfast guest and lovely to look upon and at night we know she is still there b y the twinkle of the diamond on the tip of her nose, brilliant in the blackness. The light spreading cheer a n d comfort across t h e countryside is symbolic of the great eternal light, so very near a n d ever present in these majestic mountains. We hope brightly. ^y it will always shine Very truly, LENA P . KNOWLTON The State Forestry tion Commission lias gift to the state of the Madison boulder, the largest boulder in New Hampshire, and ten acres of land from Frank E . a n d Robert Kennett of Conway and Leon O . Gerry of Concord. T h e mighty rock, which was brought two miles and de- posited in its present position by The January 1947 a n d accepted t h e Recrea- HAROLD Madison BouUer the great glacier, is estimated to weigh 765(1 tons, is 70 feet long, 30 feet wide and 40 feet high. The site will become a new state recreation a r e a ^jor NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTHORS AND BOOKS "The Countryman's Cookbook," by Haydn Pearson, published by Whittlesey House, New York, price $3, contains many New Hampshire recipes, personal references, and attractive photographs of kitchens and harvest scenes. New Hampshire Troubadour RUMFORD PRESS CONCORD. N. H. The Dartmouth Winter Carnival will be held February 15 and 16, 1947. The New England Sled Dog Club plans to schedule sled dog races every weekend during Janu- ary and February at New Hamp- shire town and community winter carnivals. The excellence of winter driving conditions in New Hampshire has brought great fame to the New Hampshire Highway Department, which promises to maintain its usual efficiency during the present season. Crews go into action at any time of day or night. A system of observation and reports assures prompt notice of storm or other conditions calling for plowing or sanding. Many of the highways are entirely clear of snow and ice a few hours after they have been plowed. ^yYJr New Hampshire is to have a booth and exhibit on the fourth floor of the 1947 Motor Boat Show to be held at Grand Central Palace, New York, January 10-18. 1 5 NOSTALGIA by Roslind E. Wallace For one brief glimpse of mountains' winter charm: New Hampshire in her glistening garments clad Far distant from the easy things of man, Entranced by ever-changing peaks ahead: All urgency of life and pressing claims For mountain's winter charm a poor exchange. The winding roads now white with purest snow, And icy rivers winding through the glen Oh, what great rapture thrills all those who know And oft return to mountain heights again— To memories and enchantments that enthrall, Land of all joys. New Hampshire beautiful. iHg 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/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available State of New Hampshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context troubadour011947 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource State of New Hampshire Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour January 1947 Description An account of the resource <em>Enjoy the January 1947 issue of The New Hampshire Troubadour!</em> [gview file="http://nhlibraries.org/history/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Troubadour1947JanuaryFINAL.pdf"] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947 Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16-page booklet 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 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource COPYRIGHT UNDETERMINED: This Rights Statement should be used for Items for which the copyright status is unknown and for which the organization that has made the Item available has undertaken an (unsuccessful) effort to determine the copyright status of the underlying Work. Typically, this Rights Statement is used when the organization is missing key facts essential to making an accurate copyright status determination. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource New Hampshire State Library, 20 Park Stree, Concord, NH 03301https://nh.gov/nhsl Language A language of the resource eng Subject The topic of the resource Governor Dale Mt. Jefferson Tuckerman Ravine