https://www.omekaclassic4.nhlibraries.org/files/original/f2fbc46844856534ce1818242f25d51b.pdf afa4b093e06175d560879426695c0ba6 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 New Hampshire Troubadour APRIL 1950OH!' Comes to you every month, singing the praises of New Hampshire, a state whose beauty ami opportunities should tempt you to come and share those good things that make life here so delightful. Stale Planning and Development Commission, Concord, New Hampshire. One dollar a year. Entered as second-class matter. May 31, 1949, at the Post Office at Concord, New Hampshire, under the Act oj March 3, 1S79. ANDREW M. HEATH, Editor Wasted Hours Lj ffUora ^JJdhon flutter There was a day I wasted long ago, Lying upon a hillside in the sun An April day of wind and drifting clouds; An idle day and all my work undone. The little peach trees with their coral skirts Were dancing up the hillside in the breeze; The grey-walled meadows gleamed like bits of jade Against the crimson bloom of maple trees. And I could smell the warmth of trodden grass, The coolness of a freshly harrowed field; And I could hear a bluebird's wistful song Of love and beauty only half revealed. I have forgotten many April days But one there is that comes to haunt me still A day of feathered trees and windy skies And wasted hours upon a sunlit hill. Volume XX APRIL, 1950 Number 1 —From “Dreams and a Sword” 3 New Hampshire TroubadourTHE LAST FIFTY YEARS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE hJ-Z mine Squires On the 31st of August, 1899, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Stanley of Newton, Massachusetts, drove their “Stanley steamer” up the carriage road on Mt. Washington. It was the original ascent of that mountain by automobile, and a fitting augury of the remarkable changes that the next fifty years were to bring. In this brief survey of those changes in New Hampshire life since 1899, three questions will lx* [wised and answers sought: How have New Hampshire people altered their ways of making a living? What new developments in the art of living together have they devised? In what spiritual and intellectual ways have they reacted to the fast-flowing tides of change? The U. S. census in 1900 showed New Hampshire to have a population of 411,588. Slightly more than 53r< of these people are described as “rural,” i.e., living in the country or in villages of fewer than 2500 population. By 1940 the rural proportion had dropped to 42%, and by 1950 it was expected to be still lower. At the same time, however, the product of farm and field in terms of dollar value rose steadily during the years after 1900; by 1949 it was approaching $70,000,000 in annual value. T he establishment of the State Department of Agriculture in 1913, an extensive growth in poultry raising, the appearance of the 4-H Clubs and the County Agent, State control of the milk market and a great increase in tested dairy herds, the modernization of the maple products industry, — all these have been notable agricultural developments in the Granite State since 1900. Transportation in the last half century has similarly changed. Edwin V. Mitchell in his charming / lit Horse and Buggy Age in NewEngland has reminded us diat 1900 was the high point of the equine era. There were then fewer than 8000 automobiles in all the United States, and at least 20.000,000 horses. Harness makers, blacksmiths, gristmills and feedstores. livery stables, giant snow rollers in the winter, and dusty roads in the summer, in New Hampshire as elsewhere in the nation were apparently basic aspects of American life. Yet within fifty years what a difference! Old Dobbin has almost disappeared, an ox team is a rarity, more than 100,000 motor vehicles are registered in New Hampshire alone, and even the “Iron Horse” is not the imposing figure he was in 1900. New Hampshire’s modern highway development began in 1905 with the passage of the State Aid Road Law. A short stretch of bituminous road was laid near Nashua in 1908, and the original stretch of concrete highway put down in Hooksett in 1918. Interstate bus service started in 1923 between Manchester and Lowell, and interstate air travel began in 1934. . I rerifi/ photograph of an old blacksmith shop in Lancaster, C. URBAN SHOREYDuring the same decades consolidation in New Hampshire’s principal industries — textiles, shoes, and timber products — waxed and then began to wane. In the latter 19th century New Hampshire had 6000 industrial establishments; today the number is perhaps one-sixth that number, but fortunately increasing. The prototype of the early 20th century industrial giant was the Amos- keag Mills in Manchester, at one time the world’s largest cotton textile factory. By 1935 such consolidation brought its own downfall. and today the single establishment of yesteryear is functioning as several dozen varied and independent industries. In 1950, as in 1900, manufacturing, including such activities as printing and the processing of materials from Mother Earth, is New Hampshire's chief method of earning a living. The expansion of the recreational industry in the Granite State over the last fifty years has been impressive. Even in the 19th century thousands of persons came annually to New Hampshire, to enjoy its mountains, lakes, and forests. Since 1900 the numbers have hugely increased. The establishment of the 600,000 acre White Mountain National Forest in 1909 was followed a few years later by the beginning of State forest reservations. Today these have expanded into more than twenty attractive State Parks. In the last fifty years golf clubs have dotted the State; numerous boys’ and girls' camps have been founded; and many summer theaters have flourished. Tourist accommodations have been so well developed that it is now possible to “sleep” 75,000 visitors to New Hampshire at one time. In recent decades the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, the Cranmorc Mountain skimobile, the Belknap and Mt. Sunapee chair lifts, “snow trains" and “winter carnivals,” the efforts of the six regional agencies in the State, and the skill of the State Highway Department in maintaining good roads have raised tourism to unprecedented heights. Thousands of Granite State men and women now derive their livelihood from this important industry.What new developments in the art of living together have New Hampshire people devised in the last half century? In candor it must 1k‘ said that, more important than any single act of will by our people themselves, have been the effects of the social revolution throughout the whole nation wrought by technology in the last fifty years. Among these effects which have influenced New Hampshire mightily have been the wide use of electricity; the marvels of modern medicine, hospitals, and public health; radio and television; the moving picture; the automobile, tractor, and truck; frozen foods and fuel oil; consolidated schools; supermarkets and synthetics of all sorts; and many other technological changes of our age. All these developments have altered our whole manner of living together, and in New Hampshire as elsewhere their impact has been profound. Nevertheless, in other ways by deliberate acts of their will Granite State citizens have altered the pattern of public and group life. In 1899 “Old Home Week” was begun: two years later the present judiciary system was inaugurated; and in 1909 the direct primary law was instituted. In 1911 New Hampshire adopted theThe Christian Science Church t nation's first workmen’s compensation law and did pioneer work with the idea of a Public Service Commission, child labor regulation, and factory inspection legislation. During World War I the Granite State furnished more than 20,000 men for the armed services, invested upwards of $80 million in war securities, and produced the author of that famous song, “The Long, Long Trail.” A quarter of a century later, during World War II, New Hampshire gave 59,000 men and women to the uniformed services, and in war bond drives and by interim buying invested more than $539 million in the cause of victory. In other ways New Hampshire people reacted to the problems and needs of the contemporary world. In 1936 after devastating Hoods and again in 1938 after the terrible hurricane New Hampshire showed the traditional New England spirit of surmounting grave difficulties. In 1905 the State’s oldest city, Portsmouth, was host to the Conference which ended the Russo-Japanese War, and in 1944 its largest hotel at Bretton Woods sheltered the conference which led to the creation of the International Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In 1949 New Hampshire was proud to furnish the granite cornerstone for the I'niied Nations headquarters building now being erected in New York. In what spiritual and intellectual ways have New Hampshire people reacted to the fast-flowing tides of change since 1900? Among Protestants there has been a noticeable increase of thenut ml. titilicuicii July /7, 1901. EMC M. SAN FOR I ecumenical spirit, and a lessening of narrow sectarianism. Among those of other faiths similar trends have been at work, and all religious people have cooperated closely in manners of social reform and general welfare. “Brotherhood Week” in 1950 for all the United States was headed by a distinguished Catholic son of New Hampshire. Throughout the half century service clubs, youth organizations, fraternal groups, women's clubs, and welfare agencies, all with a basically religious motivation, have had a steady growth and a far-reaching influence. Traditionally partial to the “district school,” New Hampshire did not establish a real State school system until 1919. As early as 1901 the Normal School at Keene had been established, to do for the southern part of the State what its older sister at Plymouth had long done for northern New Hampshire. In 1923 the modern University of New Hampshire at Durham was organized, and has rapidly grown to a status of leadership among institutions of its kind. In private education Dartmouth College attracted students from all over the nation, as did Colby Junior College, Exeter, St. Paul’s, and Holderness. Other fine schools flourished, both on the secondary and higher level; among these were the Catholic colleges of St. Anselm. Mount St. Mary, and Rivier. In the field of books and the arts New Hampshire had a proud record over the years since 1900. In 1950 almost every Town in the State had a free, tax-supported, public library;an efficient State Library furnished “bookmobiles”; and in per capita circulation of books New Hampshire ranked high among the forty-eight States. Early in the century Augustus St. Gaudens was a towering figure in the art colony around Cornish, and his beautiful home and studio are now a public preserve. Daniel Chester French, a native of Exeter, gained world renown from his creation of the Lincoln memorial in Washington in 1922. The handsome Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester opened in 1927, and the Orozco murals at Dartmouth became famous a decade later. Since 1908 the MacDowell Colony at Peterborough has been a stimulus to writers and musicians, while at nearby Swanzey in 1914 Joyce Kilmer was inspired to write his immortal poem, “Trees.” In summary it is clear that New Hampshire has changed amazingly in the past fifty years. Yet, as Carleton J. H. Hayes has properly reminded us, the forces of continuity are always stronger than those of alteration. Underneath, the character of the Granite State has been constant. It was no accident that the F.B.I. reported in 1946 that New Hampshire was the most law-abiding State in the nation. Perhaps with this thought in mind, the late Lawrence Shaw Mayo wrote in 1948: “Conservative they are indeed, these country people of New Hampshire . . . but it docs not follow that they arc dull. Far from it! They are as shrewd as they are conservative, and so must occupy pretty nearly the first place among the shrewd peoples of the world. . . . That is merely one phase of the uncanny sense which gives unusual value to their judgments upon everything from uncertain weather to even more uncertain human nature. ... Is it possible that the countryside in which they live is a tiny cosmos containing all types of human character? . . . Perhaps it is so. At all events their keenness in judging individuals is equalled only by their knowledge of human nature in general.” It is a tribute of which New Hampshire folk in the middle of the changing 20th century have a right to be proud.EARLY SEASON FLY FISHING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Lj 3. W). Cakitt When I was too young to know better I believed that it should be possible to catch New Hampshire trout with artificial flies on any day during the open season if one knew how to do it. Older and more experienced fishermen advised me to stick to bait at least until apple blossom time. My first few years of fly fishing experience was in streams, and May 8 was the earliest date I could record for success with flies. Then one year, it was 1936 I think, we had advanced weather, and I took some good rainbows from a stream in western New Hampshire on dry flies on opening day (May 1). Since that momentous (to me) date pond fishing for trout has Tnvhvrman Harinv is in thv background ant! thv I'ini,ham \olch ( amp of t hr I pfxilachian Mountain ( Iah is in thv forvtfround. i/tril is thv tinw u hvn Tnrkvrman Havinv is mast fnt/mlnr far skiinfi. WINSTON 1*0 IKreceived considerable popularity, thanks largely to a program of reclamation and scientific management and stocking by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Because of the comparative ease of reaching the trout’s feeding level with Hies in the still water of ponds, and the fact that aquatic insects comprise the bulk of the trout’s diet in many ponds, it is usually possible to make a satisfactory catch on artificial Hies on opening day, even when streams are running high with snow melt water. In spite of the fact that most opening day fishermen rise long before dawn and are on the streams and ponds at sunrise, the best period to fish on May 1, with either fly or bait, usually comes between 12:00 o'clock noon and 4:00 1\M. in both streams and ponds. Dozens of experiences could be cited to prove this. The reason, probably, is that the water temperature during that period is the highest of the day, which stimulates activity and hatching of aquatic insects. The insect larvae or “nymphs” crawl out of their hiding places on the bottom and swim to the surface to hatch into winged flies, and trout, which feed while the eating is good, go on a little spree. When you see insects, usually various types of “duns" or cphemcridae. rising from the water, it is usually a sign the fish are feeding even though they do not splash the surface. As the fisherman becomes more experienced he learns to choose his waters for early season fly fishing according to geographical location, weather and water conditions, and physical character of the stream itself. For instance, streams in northern New Hampshire may not reach good condition for fly fishing until June. A precipitous boulder stream is difficult to fish during high water. Some streams are open and shallow and warm up earlier than others. It all depends. Last year the season was advanced and the weather was very warm on opening day and a few days previous. As a result of the warm weather, the largest “hatches” 1 ever saw of the flies imitated by the angler's quill Gordon and Hendrikson artificials wereswarming in clouds over the streams in central New Hampshire that we visited. We had good luck on a quill (Jordon wet fly. Early in my fly fishing experience 1 was told that the solution of the whole matter was simply “to find the fly on which the fish are feeding and use it.” It may sound paradoxical, but belief in this saying caused more headache and failure than success, for the simple reason that trout, darn 'em. do not act in a logical way, and much of the time, especially early in the season, it is difficult to find any connection between the natural Hies in the trout’s stomach and throat and the artificial fly we catch them on. If you don’t believe this, try fishing with a drab, insect-like fly such as a blue dun on some north country “native” trout stream, then switch to a Parmachene Belle, which looks like nothing in nature, and see which the little beauties prefer. It will lx‘ the red and white Belle almost every time. Big trout often feed extensively on small fish, and it is sometimes possible to switch from a small fly made to imitate an insect to a bucktail or streamer fly designed to imitate a minnow and increase Spring skiers nl the Spur Cabin of I hr Harvard Mountain Club nrar Sherburne Ski Truil and Tucker man Karine, Mt. Washington. WINSTON TOTEthe average size of one’s catch. Big rainbows in several New I lamp- shire streams 1 have fished seem to go on an annual feeding spree about mid-May, and 1 have had some very fast and thrilling sport by Ix'ing there at the right time with the right pattern of bucktail fly. although it is admitted that such jackpots are lucky accidents. The very fact that trout are so obstinate, stubborn, temperamental, and illogical most of the time makes those rare occasions when they behave as we feel they should more interesting and satisfying. It is the greatest thrill to be on a stream or pond when a “hatch” of natural flies such as blue duns, crane flies, caddis, or black gnats is in progress and to take them on an artificial fly imitating the real thing when they just won’t touch anything else. And it is especially gratifying to catch one’s trout on flies on opening day. Here’s a hint — trout usually feed near bottom early in the season. Cast a wet fly well upstream from the spot where you think the trout is skulking and let it come down to him on a slack line, sinking as it comes. When you think the fly is near the bottom in front of the trout, retrieve your line slowly. The fish thinks it is a fly rising from bottom to hatch and . . . well, maybe he’ll grab it. This year the legal daily take of trout in most waters of the state, except streams and some ponds in Coos County, is ten per day instead of the fifteen of previous years. The droughts of the last three years have decimated the population of natural trout in many streams south of the White Mountains, which will put increased pressure on the trout stocking program. By fishing with artificial flies the fisherman can get much more fun per fish, and with a little care can easily release small trout without harming them. The study of natural trout stream insects and the practice of trying to perfect skill in presenting artificial flies properly is so much fun that trout in the stream become more important than trout in the pan. Since the more popular angle worm, which often puts more trout in our baskets, also has a disastrous effect on small trout, fly fishing is one form of conservation, as well as a lot of fun. 14 The April I'M)Front Cover: Church at Hampton Falls. Color photo by Douglas Armsden. Back Cover: Looking downstream on the pool at Franconia Notch. Photo by Winston Pole. Frontispiece: The east branch of the Saco River at Intervale. Photo by George Hill. The fifth annual New Hampshire Folk Festival of old-fashioned square and country dancing, folk dancing, singing, crafts, foods, and other folk lore, will be held May 19 and 20 at the Belknap Mountains Recreation Area, Gilford. The festival is sponsored by the New Hampshire Folk Federation, which recently established itself as a permanent organization by the adoption of by-laws and the election of officers. Brownlow L. Thompson, Bristol, is president of the Federation and chairman of the Folk Festival. Information about Warner is contained in a new folder called “Life with Warner,” by the well known writer Freeman Tilden. Copies are available on request to the Warner Planning and Development Association. HOeCHARK I.air s/o inti shirrs on Mi. \toosilaukr. ami view to thr south. New Hampshire Books and Authors Land of the Free, a pioneer story for children by Mildred Clawson Flanders, the Northam Publishing House, Dover, N. H., SI.50, published in 1949, is now in its second printing. This attractive book, which Dover schools are using, tells of the adventures of a pioneer boy, whose family settled in the place which is now Dover, New Hampshire. It tells also of the hardships, the loneliness, and the difficulties which pioneer children shared with their parents in establishing a home in the rugged wilderness. Yew Hampshire Troubadour 15Beside a clear New Hampshire brook * If one has eager eyes to look. In clustered charm Arbutus grows The fairest flower that springtime knows, A bit of heaven surely clings Close to the ground and ever brings Memories of my native earth Which hold for me abiding worth. * (The Wilder brook. E. Peterborough) —by Katherine Wilder Ruggles formerly of Peterborough, New Hampshire /w1 APR 6 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 4677Troubadour195004 Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour April 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 1950-04 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. 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, Groveton, Hampton Falls 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, statistics, manufacturing, churches, libraries, fishing, skiing, churches Type The nature or genre of the resource Text churches fishing Groveton Hampton Falls libraries manufacturing Mt. Washington New Hampshire skiing statistics