https://www.omekaclassic4.nhlibraries.org/files/original/14745e8ca926df782bc0db6a1580b827.pdf 560a5274ceee1b98dec65b659b3efff6 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 happiest man is he who learns from Nature the lesson of Worship. —Emerson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. FIFTY CENTS A YEAR ANDREW M. HEATH, Editor VOLUME XVII April, 1947 NUMBER 1 COUNTRY CUSTOM ly ^JJarry (Elmore If you are a stranger, come to the front door — Come to the front door as strangers do - Come to the front door and lift the bronze knocker, And we will open the door to you. You will sit sedately in a Boston rocker And talk about the weather, or whatever you wish, While we place a birch log on the fire And serve you apples from a willowware dish, Fit for the taste of a Yankee squire. But if you are an old friend, come to the back door —
Come to the back door as country folk do — Come in without knocking, with a lusty “Hello,” And toast your shins by the kitchen fire, For old friends are welcome and old friends are few.
Stay on for supper, and when you must go, Leave, as you entered, by the unlatched door. Reprinted by permission of Good Housekeeping New Hampshire Troubadour 3GUY SHOKKY Local color at Cilleyville. Some prefer the leisurely pace oj former days. BLACK NORTH Lit ^J^ennelL ~^4nd(e We usually think of New Hampshire as sylvan, colorful, placid,
rural, homey, staidly New England, consistently beautiful. It is all
of these. But there is about it, at times, something else, something
northern and wild, a mood of darkling menace, sinister and vaguely
threatening. These moods don’t last long as a rule, but while they
last there is a chill in the air, and in the cold hard light beneath
lowering clouds, the familiar, usually friendly landscape suddenly
seems like something conjured up from the music of Grieg. There is, in such an atmosphere, not only a foreboding but a
loneliness. It is not the loneliness of the heart, however, but of the
spirit; not the loneliness of “peopled places,” nor of nostalgia for
times far away and long ago, nor yet the melancholic loneliness
of Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. It is more the aloneness which
Babette Deutsch describes in her poem Solitude, in the Peterborough
Anthology, 4 The April 1947“Single is all up-rising and down-lying, Struggle, or fear, or silence none may share. Each is alone in bearing, and in dying. Conquest is uncompanioned as despair.” But it is not principally loneliness which we feel when our
mountains and weather combine to produce this atmosphere. There
is more an air of mystery. Certainly there is an eerie feeling about
a night in March or late November, when, through the bare
branches of the tossing trees, you see the moon racing among the
clouds, and you hear the wind relentlessly surging out of the north;
or again, in the winter when you look across a frozen lake, dim in
the starlight, to the darkly looming bulk of mountains against the
sky. It is borne in on you at such times that this land is a northern
land and its moods are northern moods, wild, disquieting, chal-
lenging and yet having about them that lure which the north is
said to have. The Northern Lights, too, which seem to have become more
frequent of late years, produce an eerie effect as they shoot up
from the hill-rimmed horizon like searchlights, greenish white,
growing bright, fading, then growing bright again. There is a
mystery about them as you see them sweep across the night sky,
and no amount of scientific explanation can quite dispel it from
your mind. They are the North made visible, these fingers of light
which reach up to erase the stars. But even though our countryside, particularly our mountain
country, has times when it seems especially wild, even sinister,
mysterious and eerie, there is never a gloomy or depressing note.
For in these moods of our hill country there is always a charged,
an electric feeling in the air which, far from depressing us, puts us
on the alert, sometimes quite suddenly, and almost makes us say,
“What next?” The village of Acworth is a charming old Colonial settlement
silting remote on its hilltop up there under the sky, but there is to New Hampshire Troubadour 0the northwest of it on the upland reaches of the township an ex-
panse of abandoned forest country known locally as Black North.
The origin of the term is obscure, but I think I know how the person
felt who first named it. He probably was working about his farm
in the late afternoon of a November day when his attention was
called to the chill, forbidding appearance of the country out there
under the eaves of the sky where the level frigid light seemed to
fade away unwelcomed. He probably shivered as he looked and
went into the lamplit kitchen to sit by the stove. He remarked to
his wife that it looked “bad’' in the “Black North.” And the name
stuck. That’s my guess. But the term could be applied to those moods of weather and
landscape so common throughout the state, for it expresses the
feeling of them in two words of unusual and poetic combination.
And not for all the sunny south would a New Hampshire man
trade this wild and rugged grandeur of his north country, this
stormy music of the hills. ANNIVERSARY OF UNUSUAL PRODUCT The year 1947 is a milestone in the history of Miniature Precision
Bearings, Inc., of Keene, for it was just ten years ago that its first
miniature ball bearing was installed. This bearing, approximately
one-sixteenth of an inch in outside diameter, is still operating in
the watch of the chief engineer of the company. The premises which the company owns are completely air-
conditioned, and comprise a one-storv main factory building
connected on one side to a plant cafeteria, and on the other to a
modern brick and glass block office building. A separate structure
houses the tool room and development laboratory. 6 The April 1947The originator of the processes used
in the manufacture of these bearings is
Winslow S. Pierce, Jr., who has invented
more than 150 different mechanical
items. Standard sizes of ball bearings, such
as are used in bicycles, automobiles,
and other modern machinery, are famil-
iar to many people, but complete as-
semblies, with inner and outer race-
ways measuring on the outside from
one-eighth to five-sixteenths of an inch are almost beyond imagin-
ation. Realization of the midget size of some of these bearings can
be had by comparing the smallest to the head of a common pin. The tiny bearings get their start from solid bars of metal, from
which accurately dimensioned rings are manufactured to become
inner and outer races of the finished bearing. The rings may be
made of chrome steel, stainless or beryllium copper. Hardening is
accomplished in electronically controlled ovens. Further finishing
processes take place, then assembly of the rings into bearings by
inserting balls between the two races. At last the product of busy
hands manipulated by skilled women workers is ready for packing
and shipment. But this is no major operation, for the day’s produc-
tion could sometimes fit in a lady’s sewing thimble! Contrary to what might be a popular picture of bearing parts
flowing out of machines in a constant stream, the manufacture of
these bearings is a slower and more painstaking operation, with
each part measured and tested many times during the manufac-
turing processes. Tolerances from exact sizes are controlled to as
close as one ten-thousandth of an inch. The company manufactures more than 40 different types and
sizes of miniature ball bearings, thousands of which were turned
out during the war for use in such instruments as the Bendix gyro 7 New Hampshire TroubadourGorham, llir Carter-Moriah ami Prrsi Gorham lies in a valley formed by the noblest of New England’s
mountains, eight hundred feet above sea level and situated where
the rivers Androscoggin and Peabody join. Gorham is the nearest
village to practically every peak of the famous Presidential Range.
Close by is the Carter Range; and to the northeast, the Pilot Range.
On every hand, exquisite scenery delights the eye. Gorham is 8 The April 1917•nlial Ranges. and the A ndrosatggin River centrally located and a natural starting point for excursions in all
directions, whether tramping, motoring, fishing, or hunting. A better vacation playground than Gorham would be hard to
find; those who go there each year say, “It can’t be done!” In the
words of Edna Dean Proctor, “Whatever skies above us rise, the
Hills, the Hills, are Home.” New Hampshire Troubadour 9fluxgate compass, polaroid inclinometer, Sperry gyroscope, Link
trainer, fire control instruments for the Navy, radar equipment,
and many other devices. Quantity production of such minute bearings might well be a
claim to fame, but MPB prefers to cite its record for acceptance of
99.7 per cent of its production and maintenance of extremely fine
tolerances equivalent to the highest of five grades of larger ball
bearings. The company was commended for excellence of pro-
duction by the chief naval inspector of New York. For the past year the company’s production has swung over to
peacetime applications of war developments such as maritime
navigational aids, commercial aviation instruments, weather sta-
tion equipment, etc., and into new uses for miniature ball bearings
in small electric motors, cameras, textile machinery, business
machines, dental tools, and laboratory and testing devices. Many
in the roster of MPB's customers are household names, but it also
includes such clients as the recent winner of the Great Lakes fiy
casting championship, and custom model railroad builders. As well as manufacturing these standard bearings, the company
designs and produces many special bearings, and does consulting
and development work on precision instruments for aviation,
radio, optical, and other companies. MPB bearings are sold and used all over the world. The com-
pany maintains its own office in New York, and has representatives
in 26 cities in the United States and Canada. From an article in the Morning Union (Manchester, ,V. //.)
Mr. Pierce formerly lived in New Jersey and Long Island, New York.
The company’s treasurer, H. D. Gilbert, was a Chicagoan for eighteen
years. Although New Hampshire has for many, many years been pro-
viding leaders who have gone out and helped to develop other sections
of the country, it is interesting to note that New Hampshire also draws
people of enterprise and talent, who take important parts in the
state’s industrial and community growth. 10 The April 1947F* GUY SHOREY Trout fishing on the ITest Brunch oj the Peabody River in the shadow of the Presidential Range. THE GREAT ANNUAL DECISION by J^ot n i3r Ten nan “Sometimes vve caught plenty and sometimes few, but
we never came back without a good catch of happiness/’ — Henry Van Dyke This is the month when New Hampshire fishermen and women of
all ages haunt tackle shops by day and tinker with angling equip-
ment by night, all the while pondering their most important annual
decision — where to go fishing on May first, the opening day of
trout fishing. The uncontrollable fishing fever rises in their veins
like the sap in budding maples as each day becomes warmer and
the landscape acquires that fishing-time look. Where to go trouting on opening day is no small problem and
for each angler the decision must be made according to personal
taste and ambition from the wide variety of brooks, streams and
ponds in the Granite State. For some a dark-flowing meadow brook
winding slowly between under-cut banks fringed by alders and
willows, where well-fed, brilliant “brookies” are quick to take
advantage of sunken roots. For others a forest brook shaded by-
spruce, cascading over granite and pausing in clear pools before .Xew Hampshire Troubadour 11tumbling into foam again. Here the trout are sometimes not much
over legal size but later curl in the pan and sputter with a superior
aroma. The trout ponds are popular, too. Many fishermen, some too
old, some too lazy, and some just plain not inclined to tramp the
brush on brookbanks or wade swift currents, these fishermen prefer
to visit the trout ponds nature has tried to hide among New
Hampshire hills. Here the ardent fly fisherman often has his best
opening day luck, alongside devotees of the angle worm. It is traditional in New Hampshire to play hookey from school
or business on opening day. No other species of fish rates this alibi.
Several New Hampshire schools now have fishing contests on this
important date and lure the youngsters back to classrooms with
prizes and recognition of their angling prowess. The boys at Wilton
High School last spring suffered the indignity of having their
fishing contest won by a girl. It is also traditional for nature to provide early-season fisher-
folk with smells of wakening buds and arbutus, with the musical
sound of running water, the hum of early insects, the lulling
whisper of wind in the pines, and complete regeneration of mind
and body. It is difficult to measure opening day success. No feeling of greed
or desire for power motivates the ambition of anglers who are
willing to rise in the quiet chill of dawn in order to be on the stream
early. Of course there is immense satisfaction in being lucky enough
to catch a larger trout, or a few more trout, than one’s neighbor or
one’s wife, and it is a callous fisherman who does not cheerfully ask
his fellow-angler “what luck” and appraise his catch. To bring
home a really big trout, large enough to wrap in a damp towel
and keep for a few days in order to show one’s friends, brings a
glow of satisfaction; but to catch one large enough for display in
the local tackle-store window is a major triumph, furnishing
conversation for many years to come. 12 The April 1947Most fishermen arc content
just to be “afishin”’ on May 1st.
A few trout for eating, a “nice
one” for showing is all they ask
in addition to the natural sights,
sounds and smells provided in
a New Hampshire setting. Although each opening day
finds a larger number of fishing
couples afield, husband and wife
sharing the thrills and satisfac-
tion of May Day morning, the
majority of anglers’ wives be-
come “fishing widows” on this
special day. To console these
partners who stay at home the
following lines* were written by
the late Reverend Henry Van
Dyke in the dedication to his
wife of his book Fisherman’s Luck. GUY SHOREY Coosauk hall on Rumpus Brook, Randolph. Here is the basket; I bring it home to you. There arc no great fish in it.
But perhaps there may be one or two little ones which will be to your
taste. And there are a few shining pebbles from the bed of the brook,
and ferns from the cool, green woods, and wild flowers from the
places that you remember. I would fain console you, if I could, for
the hardship of having married an angler: a man who relapses into his
mania with the return of every spring, and never sees a little river with-
out wishing to fish in it. But after all, we have had good times together
as we have followed the stream of life towards the sea. And we have
passed through the dark days without losing heart, because we were
comrades. So let this book tell you one thing that is certain. In all the
life of your fisherman the best piece of luck is just YOU. * Through courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons New Hampshire Troubadour 13Front Cover: Pussy Willows.
Color photo by Guy Shorcy. Back Cover: Sunset on the An-
droscoggin River near Gorham.
Photo by Guy Shorey. Frontispiece: Shadbush blos-
soms, formerly a harbinger of the
shad runs in the Merrimack anti
Connecticut rivers. The photo-
graph by Guy Shorey shows the
Peabody River in Pinkham Notch. This month the Troubadour fea-
tures the photographs of Guy
Shorey of Gorham, a photographer,
lecturer (with color photo slides),
and small-town druggist whose
work, modesty, love of everything
beautiful, whether in scenery or
poetic expression, and earnest re-
gard for the welfare of all is well
known to many. Troubadour read-
ers have been denied a more fre-
quent enjoyment of Mr. Shorey's
work only because he has for twelve
years been a member of the Com-
mission under which the Trouba-
dour is published, and in the cir-
cumstances has been reluctant to
submit material. By request he
has collaborated in the preparation
of this issue, suggesting illustrations
from his extensive collection and
the text which appears under tin-
frontispiece, in the center spread on pages 8 and 9, and on the back
cover. Fishermen who look forward to
early lake trout and landlocked
salmon fishing will be interested
in the following average “ice-out'*
dates of four popular New Hamp-
shire lakes. Other popular lakes
include Winnisquam, Squam, New-
found, and Merrymeeting. Winnipcsaukec (average for 60
years) April 22 Sunapee (average for 78 years)
April 26 First Connecticut (average for
27 years) May 3 Second Connecticut (average for
27 years) May 5 A number of New Hampshire
woodland owners have learned, to
their advantage, about the services
offered by the New England For-
estry Foundation, a non-profit cor-
poration set up to increase timber
production by bringing private for-
est lands under continuous manage-
ment and by providing complete
forestry service at cost. Manage-
ment plans have l>een prepared for
more than 26,000 acres, and more
than 40,000 acres are under man- Tht April W47 14agcment agreements. Owners have
found that they can substantially
increase their timber production
through a plan for selective cutting
every few years, and at the same
time increase their income from
woodlands. The Foundation's head-
quarters are at 3 Joy Street, Boston
8, Massachusetts. It is reported that people in some
parts of the country (in their igno-
rance!) are saying that New Eng-
land is slipping. New Hampshire
readers are invited to help the
Troubadour counter such stories
by sending short articles on the
advantages or satisfactions which
they or others enjoy in making a
living here. The Curtis Dogwood reservation
is located within the town of Lynde-
boro about one mile north of Wil-
ton village, along the road from
Wilton village to Per ham corner.
This area of flowering dogwood
(cornus florida) covering many
acres in pure stands was made a
state reservation through the gen-
erosity of Frederic H. Curtis of
Boston, a summer resident of Wil-
ton. As the flowering dogwood is
a relatively rare flowering shrub New Hampshire Troubadour in New Hampshire, the state seeks
to protect this beautiful and ex-
tensive growth from the blossom
vandal and perpetuate the annual
display of white and pinkish blos-
soms for the benefit of those who
come from near and far to appre-
ciate and enjoy them in their nat-
ural setting. NEW HAMPSHIRE AUTHORS AND BOOKS Fishes oj New Hampshire, a guide
to the 62 known species and sub-
species of fresh-water fishes of the
state, from the tiny Bridled Shiner
to the lordly Lake Trout, was re-
cently issued by the New Hamp-
shire Fish and Game Department.
As it is intended to provide the
layman with an accurate means of
identifying some of the compara-
tively little-known fish, the book
avoids technical terminology as
much as possible. It was written by
Ralph G. Carpenter II and Hil-
bert R. Sicgler, director and biolo-
gist of the department respectively.
Drawings were made by Oliver R.
Shattuck, and Dr. Reeve M. Baily,
University of Michigan, gave tech-
nical assistance. Copies may be pro-
cured from the Fish and Game De-
partment at Concord at 30 cents
each. 15 RUMFORD PRESS
CONCORD. N. H.Tiikre’s a glory on the water
and a splendor in the sky, When the day has come to sunset
And the night-winds sing and sigh There’s a golden pathway gleaming
And the clouds are touched with light; When the sun, in love, is leaning
On the bosom of the night. There’s a leap of love and longing,
And there’s something in the air,
When the day has come to sunset,
That is close akin to prayer. William L. Stidger 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 4677Troubadour194704 Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour April 1947 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 1947-04 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. 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 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 manufacturing, fishing, Andover, Randolph Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Andover fishing manufacturing Randolph