https://www.omekaclassic4.nhlibraries.org/files/original/11583733d98fc5718e7023fb3d1334b4.pdf 2817ab9c75300931224927608416a29d 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 April 1944 The New Hampshire Troubadour COMES TO YOU EVERY MONTH SINGING THE PRAISES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, A STATE WHOSE BEAUTY AND OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD TEMPT YOU TO COME AND SHARE THOSE GOOD THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE HERE SO DELIGHTFUL. IT IS SENT TO YOU BY THE STATE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AT CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE. SUBSCRIPTION: 5O CENTS A YEAR DONALD TUTTLE, EDITOR Volume XIV April, 1944 Number 1 Springtime Down Home by Alfred Evans It's springtime down home! No, I didn't look at the calendar. They're usually a little off- season, anyway. To really know spring you've got to feel it way down, deep inside. It's like love: there's no mistaking it when at last ii comes. And it seems as though each spring is more beauti- ful than the last, for we have not only the loveliness of the present, but also fond memories of past seasons. It seems as though there were always a million ways of recogniz- ing springtime down home - ground hog's shadow, grandma's "roomytiz," and so on. But I think the youngsters had about the surest way of telling the true signs of spring. From Ground ling's Day sometimes until the first of May we'd watch for those signs on our way to school, The most logical thing to look for was signs of the ice breaking up, down at the old swimming hole. That was the sure sign. No doubt about ii spring had really come even if there should be a 3 Keene, a city of thriving factories and beautiful homes, was granted by thr Massucnuaetts Bay Colony in 1733 as Upper Ashuelot and incorporated in 1753 as Keene in honor oj Sir Benjamin Keene blizzard or two we knew spring had come. And soon the ice would entirely break awaj and floai down stream. Then from the hills above the timbers would come bobbing down on their course in the mills in the Valley below. Watching those logs, listening to their thunder was a thrilling experience to all of us. Sometimes the robins and bob-whites would be singing from the trees and rails before the first thaw. We used to go over into the woods across the was from I ncle (leorge's place to watch them build i heir nests the same woods where the gypsies camped year idler year. Once one of their women folks came toward US, and we ran like the devil, for we had been told that gypsy women "stole Tht April 1944 white children and dunked 'em in t'bacca juice" in order to make gypsies out of them. Yes, sir, it seems as though we wen- all glad to see sprint . I he fact is. we were so eager thai sometimes we'd dig our boots into the ice to see if it would crack just itching to be the first to yell: "It's spring! The ice is'most broken up. Hey, folks, it's spring!" But spring didn't come only to the woods and the young. It meant renewed activity to everything and everyone. While the women folks were head over heels in house cleaning, the men be- gan preparing for the planting season. I hat was when the rafters ol the old barn fairly rang with the sounds of spring. Chains jan- gling, leather squeaking, rusty machinery whiring, and above it all -- men shouting, sometimes cursing, sometimes singing an old hymn! And out behind thebarn there was the unmistakablebawling of Aunt Josephine with her sixth calf. And there's Nellie looking its t hough her colt would be along anytime. And then there's "Papa Ferdinand" stomping his "highland laddy" jive, just to let "them young heifers" knov< that lie was with them — in spirit, anyway. And I can't remember one single spring when old Dr. Belchet didn't come driving by some early morning to say, "It's a boy at the Hopkins place! A ten pound, red-headed little devil looks like Iint. . . ." And Uncle ( n-oige would spit clean through the front gate. "An' just as no account, he'll be, no doubt." "Oh, Idon't know," DoetwinIdsay."Tim's a right good hand." " I'pecker' so. . . ." Ice a-breaking, timbers a-splashing, birds a-singing, kids a- yelling, women a-cleaning, men a-shouting! Horses a-foaling, cows a-calving, thicks a-hatching, the child a-coming to the rejoicing! That's springtime. . . . It seems as though all the world's a-singing one great love song. And I always feel as though it's (lotl's love song u hen it's springtime. "Hey, folks, it's springtime down home!" New Hampshire Troubadour 5 MORE "SMALL TOWN STUFF" by Deanne Southworth Smith It you say "Main Street" to anyone, there will come a picture to his mind of his particular Main Street in some small town where he lives, be il bast or West. To each one of us comes a cherished pic- ture, lor no matter where that small town is, Main Street means pretty much the same thing to him. "Main Street" will forever be to me, no matter where I am, Water Street in Exeter, Yew Ilamsphirc. There is the dignified and imposing Town Ihill at the head of the street, then the Bank, and the Newspaper oilier. Across the street there is the A & P, and the Drug Store, ami the Dry Goods Store, and because it's Exeter, there is a gift Shop and the Book Store. If you are a woman, you go out to do your marketing about nine o'clock in the morning, and almost every morning in the week, you will see almost every- body you know ! It is a bit like one of those large lea parlies where people gather, and yon see somebody you know across the shoul- ders, or around somebody's back. On Main Street you stop to talk to Mrs. Brown, and you see Mrs. Smith on the edge of the crowd, and there's Mrs. husk in the tail of your eye. You find out the very latest news on Main Street. Not by any ticker-tape method, but because you met Mrs. Hall who always knows the very last word about everybody. You know too, before you reach the Bookshop that the new books have come because Professor Black calls it out to you. Mr. Sampson the Agricultural Agent has been ill for quite a while, but you know he's back in his office because his huge dog who everybody knows is King on the threshold of the building where Mr. Sampson has his office. There's Helen crossing the street. You hoped you would see her to tell her about the meeting yesterday. It will save a long telephone 6 The April 1044 Exeter, home of the famous Phillips Exeter Academy, was settled in 1638: this territory had previously been known us Squamscott Falls. Exeter was the state capital during the Revolution, and the state legislature met here frequently until about 1800. conversation. If you see Mrs. King, you'll tell her you can surely go to the Garden Club meeting in Durham on Friday. You chat yourself down the street. You inquire about the health of somebody's elderly mother. You admire Jane's new baby who is out in his pram for the lirsl time. You hear that old Mr. Thompson is very low. You go into the drug store, and while you wait for Mr. Peaver to wail on you, you have a soda with somebody you knots', who is waitinii , too. The druggist thanks you for the card you sent on Christinas, and inquires for your son's cold. You go into the Hank, and Jr. Jones waves and smiles from his Cage. The President himself will bow and smile as you pass his desk. Out in the sunshine again, you pass Dr. Martin, the dentist, Hew Hampshire Troubadour 7 New Hampshire A few scenes selected specially for our boys and girls in the armed services. Top row, left to right: Sailboats on Rust Pond, Wolfeboro (Orne) Road near Walpole (Orne) Spring skiing at Tukerman (Pote). Middle row : Horseback riders at Camp The Homeland Ossipee (H. D. Barlow): Alton Bay, Lake Winnipesaukee (Orne). Bottom row: White Mountain sheep settling their early spring food problme, Mts. Madison and Adams and King Ravine from Randolph (Pote) Boiling maple sap into syrup (Pote). Springfield Town Hall and Church. Granted in 1769, the town was first called "Protectworth" incorporarted in 1794, the name was changed to Springfield. and you smile ruefully, both of yon knowing that you'll be seeing him this afternoon. If it means anything to yon to feel yourself a part of the Town, to feel that you fill a most special place in it, that you are important to people, that there is that feeling of security which comes from being known to many, and if you love that warmthth.ilcomes from being liked, and one of that important whole, you will know that you are a part of Main Street, and it is a part of you. 10 The April 1944 NEW HAMPSHIRE'S STEAMBOAT by George C. Carter IN 1793, fourteen years before the Clermont appeared on the Hudson River, Captain Samuel Morey successfully operated his steamboat on the Connecticut. His father, Colonel Israel Morey, with his wife, an infant in arms and several other children, including Samuel, then four years of age, made the journey to Orford, N. H., from Hebron, Conn, in January 1766 with his ox team. The way was through a trackless forest and unbroken wilderness, but was accomplished without accident. Israel Morey was a man of great mental force and physical vigor. Samuel developed similar characteristics and although devoted to his lumbering and saw mill, operated for the benefit of the settlers, also became an engineer and did well his part in the development of the VValpole, N. H.-Bellows Falls, Vt., area. In 1780 he began an intensive study of the application of steam power. He was in frequent conference with Professor Silliman of Yale and contributed articles to the Journal of Science. He was sure the future of shipping was with the development of steam power. January 29, 1793, a patent bearing the rugged signature of Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, was issued to Captain Morey. The invention was for a turning spit to be operated by steam. In 1799 he received a patent for a new water engine over the signature of John Adams, and November 13, 1800, there was another signed by Adams and Lee. July 14. 1813, Morey took out two patents signed by James Madison, President, and James Monroe, Secretary of State, for tide and water wheels. April 1, 1826, Morey received a patent for a gas or vapor engine, signed by J. (.). Adams as President, and Henry Clay, Secretary of State. The patent covering Steam navigation was issued in 1795 and is New Hampshire Troubadour 11 A poultry farm in Durham specializing in "New Hampshire," a distinctive breed that has won wide recognition in both North and South America in recent years now lodged with the New Hampshire Historical Society. He made the boat, built the steam engine, added the necessary machinery and made many nips rip and down the Connecticut River. At the suggestion of Professor Silliman of Yale, Captain Morcy wcin io New York with a model of his boat and with his patents. He was frequendy in conference with Chancellor Livingstone and Robert Fulton. They were most enthusiastic and look copious notes. These conferences finally resulted in an offer of $7,500 for the patents and all rights pertaining thereto. Captain Morey had previously made a price of $15,000, saying he would take nothing less. The two interests never got any nearer together and on the last visit Morey reported that enthusiasm had turned to coldness. 12 The April 1944 He promptly returned to Orford and removed all the machinery from the boat to utilize it in his lumbering and construction business. The boat itself was taken across the river to Lake Morey and sunk, thus ending a dream which he thought was never to come true, But Captain Morey, businessman, prophet and genius, built belter than he knew because wheat the Clermont made its successful trip up the I ludson it was found to include many of the suggestions and some of the patented ideas which had been brought out by Morey some years earlier. Captain Mores built a stately mansion lot himself, another for his daughter and still another was added later. Visitors to Orford on the Connecticut are entranced by these monuments to the ability and energy of a New Hampshire pioneer. New Hampshire members of the armed forces throughout the world will be able to vote in the coming election, as a result of action taken by a special session of the New Hampshire Legislature. Ihe Secretary of State will send a ballot on any informal request made by a veteran or by someone else in his behalf if the address is given. Three bills were passed to make the necessary changes in provisions for absentee voting and to advance the date of the state primary election from September 12 to July 11. The bills also facilitate voting by members of the merchant marine and citizens serving abroad with and attached to the armed forces in the American Red Cross, the Society of Friends, the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots, and the United Service Organizations. It is estimated officially that the interval between completion of ballots and election day on November 7 will be 85 days, almost double the minimum of 45 days set by the War and Navy Departments. The special session, called by Governor Robert O. Blood, opened on March 21, and the legislative program for soldier voting was completed by Legislature on March 28. The Governor signed the bills on March 29. Two additional bills, adopted to amplify existing veteran's legislation, provided poll tax exemption for widows of World War II, and property tax exemption up to $1,000 for World War II veterans. New Hampshire Troubadour 13 FRONT COVER: Tapping a sugar maple for the sap that is boiled down to maple syrup and maple sugar. (Kodachrome by Winston Pole.) BACK COVER: A modern New Hampshire farm at Walpole. (Photo by Harold Orn e.) Rockingham has been handed reports of the police officers of the town of Exeter from the year 1824 to 1856. In the earlier days the police were evidently a legislative body which met frequently and proclaimed many rules for the conduct of the citizens, some of which appear to us very amusing. A few are as follows: "June 5 (1824) William Marsh has leave to drum for four months from this date on Wednesdays and Saturdays from three to five o'clock in the afternoon in his father's field and not within eight rods of the publick highway." Exeter, June 28th, 1824 Permission is hereby granted to Capt. Daniel Gilman & the company associated under his command to use martial music on the evening of Wednesday, Friday and Monday at any time after sunrise and between that time and sunset and also to practice firing at those times. Police of Exeter Exeter, March 9th, 1835 Police met at the house of John Dodge to advise and instruct those who, when appointed to assist the police in preserving order and prevent any disturbance which may be contrary to law on Tuesday, March 10th (Town Meeting day). The following gentlemen were appointed by the Selectmen to assist the Police: Retire M . Parker John Wentworth Dan'l Rundlett Nathl Tailor Jacob Elliott John Moulton 2 The police wish each one of you to use your best endeavors to quel any riot or disturbance which you may see in the streets tomorrow and if any riot should be commenced to arrest the ringleaders or any others in the same and take them over to the gaol and commit them, they also wish you to be on hand day & evening for the purpose. EBEN PEARSON, Secretary —"ROCKINGHAM'S RAMBLES," in the Exeter News Letter The April 1944 One season one of the early settlers, Philip Jordan, had such a meager larder that he had to dig up the potato seed already planted to keep starvation from the door. Soon berries came and these, with milk, helped to keep his family alive. Mr. Jordan was always calm and self-possessed, let what would happen, and it was related that he was quite a hunter. One winter he killed 17 moose. The best of the meat was kept and eaten fresh through the winter or dried for the summer, The skins were useful for chair bottoms, snowshoe "filling," floor mats, and when tanned served to cover the children in their beds, while the moose's stocks were worn in place of boots and shoes. From History of Coos County A distributor of religious tracts — known in earlier days as a colporteur walked through some freshly fallen snow to the front door, unused during the winter as was the custom in those days, and rang the squeaky doorbell. After some delay the owner shuffled to the door in his carpet-slippers and. after a battle with the lock and holt, succeeded in opening it. "Good morning, sir." said his caller New Hampshire Troubadour RUMFORD PRESS CONCORD N H obsequiously," would you mind if I left a few tracts here?" "Not if the toes are all pointed toward the gate," remarked the host as he slammedthe door. The forest fire hazard is felt to be especially critical this year because of the manpower shortage and other conditions. For that reason the State I'orestry and Reereation Department is urging motorists, sportsmen, and Others who have occasion to be in or near the woods in New Hampshire to be especially cautious and thoughtful during the coming spring and summer season. If you are considering the purchase, either now or later, of country real estate for year-round or summer home or a farm, send for our free illustrated hook, "A Home in New Hampshire." and for a real estate specification sheet, upon which you can easily indicate what you would like to find. Our real estate bulletin service will bring you offerings without expense or obligation. Spring skiing is now at its height write us for information. New Hampshire Troubadour TO A SOLDIER, RETURNING These fertile acres wait his ministry God grant the frost be gone so he may till His land again . . . Let his returning be When winds blow clean and warm across the hill And let his hand be firm to guide the team He had relinquished to another's hand. With springtime sowing, sow a sweet, new dream Deep in his soul and let him, smiling, stand As tall oaks stand . . . as one who knows the worth Of simple things, who stands where forebears stood And in close fellowship with sky and earth, Walk down his furrows knowing life is good Let him reap harvests, soil and spirit-sown, In deep-lunged peace he fought to make his own! - INEZ CLARK THORSON in Washington Star. 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 troubadour041944 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource State of New Hampshire Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour April 1944 Description An account of the resource <em>Enjoy the April 1944 issue of The New Hampshire Troubadour!</em> <!--more--> [gview file="http://nhlibraries.org/history/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Troubadour1944AprilFinal.pdf"] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1944 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. 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