https://www.omekaclassic4.nhlibraries.org/files/original/14709d7dcbafc7818cd77e6cb78931d4.pdf af29008076bce195d422770336004975 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 you every month, singing the praises of New Hampshire, a state whose beauty and opportunities should tempt yon lo come and share those good things that make life here so delightful. State 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 of March 3, 1879. Andrew M. Heath, Editor Volume XX NOVEMBER, 1950 Number 8 Pine Chest by Frederick W. Branch Here is a chest that someone built When there were trees of pumpkin pine; And when enough slow time had passed, A country auction made it mine. There have been treasures, through the years Beneath the lid of this old chest, Where proven housewives put away Things they had made and kept for best: Linens from flax their men had raised And they had woven, bleached and pressed, Blankets and quilts against the nights When they would warm some welcome guest. Now it is empty but it stands As sturdy as it was when he Who dovetailed every corner joint, First locked it with its hand-made key. Time, which enriches pine like this And deepens its smooth mellowness. Has made this old and humble thing A treasure chest of loveliness.ORCHIDS FROM CANADA A Letter from Ernest Harris of Montreal Through you, my wife and I would like to extend our appreciation to the responsible authorities of your lovely state for a recent memorable holiday spent there. The well appointed facilities—hotels, “motels,” cabins, picnic and camping grounds in the beautiful state parks, the hundreds of miles of fine profusely marked roads and, greatest of all, the glorious scenery, make a visit to New Hampshire a treasured experience. Our all too brief stay in the Berlin area of the White Mountains was studded with thrill after thrill as we traveled about and feasted our eyes on so many of the scenic wonders of your state. We were most impressed by the efforts you put into assisting visitors to get a maximum of pleasure out of visiting a particular beauty spot. One of our trips comes to mind to illustrate this. It was at Glen Ellis Falls.* We enjoyed the little ritual provided for tourists of signing the visitors' book housed in its rustic case at the beginning of the path leading through the trees to the falls. Then the delightful walk down the winding picturesque trail beside the lively mountain stream and the periodic halts at the vantage points so thoughtfully provided from which to view the progress of the stream as it hustled along to its final dramatic and quite unexpected plunge to the rocky canyon a hundred feet or so below. Here again were provided safe yet thrilling viewing points from which photographers could shoot to their hearts' content. In short, you do everything possible to encourage people to take an interest in the beauties of Nature. They cannot help but be better men and women for having come close to such beauty, though perhaps few would admit it. *ln the White Mountain National Forest.—Ed. kik The unusual old wallpaper in the parlor of the Franklin Pierce homestead, Hillsboro, built in 1804, is remarkably well preserved. ERIC M. SANFORD Around all the other famed spots—Mount Washington, Pink- ham, Crawford, and Franconia Notches, the Old Man of the Mountains, Lake Winnipesaukee, The Weirs, etc., and in the dozens of clean, white painted towns and villages also one is struck by the enterprise anil courageous spending of time and money on the part of citizens and authorities alike to enhance the natural beauty of locations to ensure that their state is revisited year after year by enthusiastic tourists. And the courteousness and friendliness of your people was refreshing, particularly officials such as wardens in state parks, who are generally kind and helpful.We arrived in the Milan State Park one evening with the friends with whom we were staying at Berlin, having decided we would eat supper in the park instead of at home. It was pouring rain and the warden was surprised to see us. However, he was so enthusiastic about a picnic party visiting his area in a rainstorm that we were highly amused. Cheerfully bustling about he brought us wood for our fire in the shelter's massive stone fireplace and made sure we were comfortable before leaving us. His obvious love of the outdoors and sincere friendliness warmed us and made the visit a distinct pleasure. Incidentally, that rugged shelter in Milan State Park with its deep protective eaves, solid timbers, cozy stone fireplace and spotless, city-like sanitary facilities is a credit to the authorities and seems typical of your practical thoughtfulness for the comfort of tourists in your state. To sum up this rambling, somewhat disjointed letter, my wife and I say “Thank you, New Hampshire, for a grand holiday. We shall return for more.” A curious sight — tree growth is gradually obscuring these old signs at North Sandwich. WINSTON POTETHK "HOSS” BOATS OF LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE by Rudolph Elie in The Boston Herald “Well,” said Tuftonboro’s chief of police, leaning over the counter of his Melvin Village sporting goods store, “old Cap’n Blackstone was dead and so was old Cap’n Lavallee and old ‘Spinach’ Greene lived way over to Gilford, but if you want to get the dope on the old hoss boats, why don’t you go down to Wolfehoro? There’s a fellow down there,” he added, wiping a speck off his badge, “who’s made quite a study of them. Name of Carol Lamprey,” he said. “Runs a meat market across from the post office.” Mr. Lamprey, a tall, heavy-set, muscular sort of a man with black hair, steel-rimmed glasses and a booming voice, not to mention the well-stained apron of the meat cutter, was sitting in the hack of his store overlooking Wolfehoro Bay, reflecting over an unlighted cigar. “Might know a little about hoss boats." he said cautiously, putting a match to the cigar, which resisted it stubbornly. “My father had one of them before my time, hut I heard enough about them. Fact was old Maggie, the hoss, was still alive and kicking when I was a boy. I ler knees were sprung from the sand hags they used to put on her hack to make her heavier on the treadmill, hut she was 34 before she cracked up. I still remember the day pa had to take her out and shoot her, too.” The horse-propelled boats, which seem to have been invented on Lake Winnipesaukee (the town of Moultonborough claims the honor for a resident of Moultonborough Neck in about 1830, but the resident's name is hard to come by) and whichFISK AUDIO-VISUAL SERVICE BEFORE. This is how the present home of John H. Vincent looked when he purchased it. He moved from Connecticut to Center Sandwich, N. H. ceased to exist about 1880, appear to have never been used anywhere else, at least not to the extent they were on Winni- pesaukee. “In the ten or so years before steam boats came in," Mr, Lamprey went on, “there were 30 or 40 of them on the lake, hauling wood and freight and towing logs. Could make three or four miles an hour, except when the wind was cussed." All they were, according to Mr. Lamprey, whose people for several generations have been on the lake, were scows; opendecked barges about 60 feet long, 11 or 12 feet wide, and maybe three feet high. Picking up a pencil he sketched one on a bill for meat lying on his desk. “Just aft the middle of the barge,” he said, drawing the picture, “there were a couple of paddle wheels. Behind them there was a sort of an inclined chute the floor of which was a treadmill of slats.FISK AUDIO-VISUAL SERVICE AFTER. And this is bow it looked after renovation. Improvements were made gradually from 1940 to 194H. It is a year-around home. “When the hoss walked on the treadmill, which was inclined maybe 45 or 40 degrees, a set of gears turned the paddle wheel, he continued. “Sometimes they used a team of hosses, but they were much lighter critters than we see today. Old Maggie couldn’t have weighed more than 1100 pounds, but she could push maybe 10 cords of wood in the barge eight hours a day.” Behind the horse (or horses) there was a short deck, and on these, overhanging the sides of the barge, were a couple of small shacks. One of them was a bunkhouse with, in the fancier specimens, facilities for cooking. The other contained feed for the horses. “The pilot sat on a plank set between the two cabins,” Mr. Lamprey explained, “and he steered with a long sweep. If the wind commenced to blow, you can bet he steered her right into the nearest cove.” Most of the lake men built the horse boats themselves, Mr. Lamprey explained. “Warn't much to them,” he said. "So far as I know pa built his own boats except for the gears and httin's." Mis father as a hoy of 20 or so, had bought a couple of islands in Green's Basin with the idea of lumbering them off and selling the cord wood to the steamboats, which were by then beginning to appear on the lake. Having prospered with his horse boat, hauling the wood for the steamer's boilers from Green's Basin to the end of Long Island, his father and uncle turned to steam themselves. After that they had a whole series of little steamers, carrying freight between the two railheads at Lakeport and Wolfeboro, a distance of about 16 miles. “The competition was so good pa even got one of those railroad passes," Mr. Lamprey said. “Saw the whole United States for nothing." But the horse boats—and Mr. Lamprey, who has a vast collection of old photos ot the marine history of Winnipesaukee, douhts if there's now a man alive who owned or worked one— were tough on the horses. “Poor old Maggie," he sighed, “it was all uphill for her.” Still, it probably wasn’t any harder than dragging a plough eight hours a day. The only trouble was the horses couldn’t stop. “If they had any headway at all the treadmill would carry them forward into a bar,” the amiable store-keeper said. “If they didn't they’d slip back down the incline into another bar. And I've heard tell as how there was nails there that would touch them up behind. Golly, wouldn't the SPCA have had a held day, if they'd caught on to those hoss boats!”SOCIETY INVITES HELP IN STUDIES OF INDIAN LIFE by Howard R. Sargent The New Hampshire Archeological Society, which was formed in 1947, has begun a scientific analysis of the Indian cultures which existed here before the times of Colonial settlement. One excavation project has been completed. It is at Lochmere on Silver Lake. The sites ol other Indian villages have been discovered. The society is carrying on a survey of the state to locate and determine the value of Indian sites with a view to their investigation. Everyone having knowledge of Indian sites or other information about Indian life of the state is invited to give it to the society, which all interested people are also invited to join. Since the present membership is small, the society feels that such help Osprey and nest on a dead birch "lookout” in the wilderness area near Diamond Peaks. Dartmouth College Grant, a few miles north of Errol. Hunters should retrain from shooting this beautiful bird which lives almost entirely upon fish and has a peaceful disposition. Naturalists claim the osprey seldom catches game fish, preferring the more easily caught "coarse” fish such as suckers and chubs. Many a sportsman has been thrilled by the sight of an osprey soaring above his camp. A. N. BOUCHARDis necessary to make its inquiries complete. All are invited to take an active part in the intensely interesting, though difficult, task. Work at the initial “dig was completed in September of this year. Members have counted 145 stone tools and more than 300 fragments of pottery representing all periods of Indian occupation. The site, which had never been subjected to the ravages of “pot-hunters,” gave the Society the maximum in opportunity for its scientific research. Artifacts consisted of several types of arrowheads, scrapers, knives (including the interesting and prized semi lunar knife), gouges, rubbing stones, drills, and hammerstones. In addition, the potsherds represented about a dozen vessels all of which were decorated with particular motifs and patterns. Records giving the exact position of every item in the site indicate a definite sequence from the very earliest occupation right up to the historic period. The depth of material in the ground gives its relative age and shows the changes which took place in the material culture of the aborigines. The earliest occupation found at Silver Lake consisted of certain stemmed arrowheads, tiny scrapers, drills, and hammerstones. A main characteristic of the period was that there was no pottery. All of the succeeding periods were ceramic periods. Stone tools went through changes, but the development of the more plastic art of pottery manufacture was more pronounced. The first pottery was very crude ware with simple cord impressions. Later a more elaborate form of pottery came into being with decoration in the form of chevrons, parallel lines, and spaced holes. The final pottery style had an elaborate collar with rim notches. The body was impressed with a paddle which had been wrapped with a cord. The resulting design closely resembled the impressions of coarse fabric. Associated with this late pottery weretriangular arrowheads and products of European manufacture such as clay pipes, glass, and hand wrought iron. Other sites which have been examined in the archeological survey have produced evidence of the various periods represented at Silver Lake, so the sequence was developed throughout the state. The cultures were not indigenous to New Hampshire, however. Rather they were the product of contact through trade, migration,and other influences from neighboring regions to the north, west, and south. This is shown by comparative studies in those areas. Those able to supply information may send it to the Sargent Museum at Georges Mills, where files are maintained, and those interested in membership may write to William B. Fisher, the society’s treasurer, at 97 Russell Street, Manchester. All members receive bulletins, newsletters, and notices. Reports and publications are prepared and distributed at the museum at Georges Mills. If the society succeeds in its ambitious undertaking, the story of life in prehistoric New Hampshire will gradually be discovered and revealed. Thus a new body of information may be built, more soundly based on facts than some of the existing legends may be, and of greater interest. WINSTON POTK A huge elm tree at Con tray, eight feet in diameter and healthy.Front Cover: Early snow on Mounts Adams and Madison, as seen from the Glen. Color photo by Winston Pote. Back Cover: Baptist Church at Center Sandwich as seen in late autumn. Photo by Fisk Audio- Visual Service. Frontispiece: A farm house at Dover. Photo by Frederick C. Bourbeau. * Roger W. Babson (Babson Institute), who recently established the Gravity Research Foundation at New Boston, New Hampshire, ordered five subscriptions to the Troubadour, writing as follows: “Since our gravity work has become established, I have spent several weeks in New Hampshire and have come to love it, although I have a nice home and a large educational institution in Wellesley, Mass. "Of all the material on New Hampshire which has since come to me, 1 am perhaps most indebted to the Troubadour. In fact you may be responsible for the further extension of our plans beyond the original program. The kindness and simplicity of the Troubadour appeals to me greatly. It reminds me of what my father used to tell me: ‘Roger, when you get old, you will learn that the world is ruled by feelings and not by figures.’ “To make a long story short, I enclose a check for $5.00 and ask you to put the following names on your subscription list. . . . But here is the important thing—please bill them all to me once each year and not to these individuals until I get them truly ‘inoculated’ with New Hampshire and those things of life which really count, of which New Hampshire specializes and can provide. “Often I am asked to recommend some industries which would help New Hampshire. I am now replying by suggesting industries which will revise the soul and joys and health of the masses. When we consider all the money that is made in manufacturing and selling patent medicine in Americanbig cities, it certainly seems that New Hampshire could ‘bottle and market’ these eternal qualities. God Bless you in your work." 4 FALL TRAGEDY by Airy. Clarence Spanieling The big yellow pumpkin, so firm and so round Sat up on the table, and muttered and frowned. He said: “There I was, hadn’t done a thing wrong My mother vine fed me, her leaves kept me warm The earth was so pleasant, the wildflowers so sweet And little field mice ran with scampering feet. The corn leaves were rustling, the birds were so gay And truly, I wasn't in anyone's way. A great silly farm boy just yanked up the vine And brought me to this kitchen, to sigh and to pine. Ah me, such a short life! I live and I die, Today a proud pumpkin, tomorrow a pie.” The exhibition New Hampshire Crafts, 1950 organized by the Currier Gallery of Art with the cooperation of the League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, has been accepted for nation-wide circulation by the American Federation of Arts, Washington, I). C. The exhibition will travel to art museums, colleges and other institutions throughout the country, with the first showing at The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, in late November. 4 Outdoors in New Hampshire, is a new monthly newspaper sponsored by the Federated Sportsmen's Clubs of New Hampshire, Inc., to promote conservation of natural resources, to improve sportsman- land owner relations, to foster higher ethics in fishing and hunting, and to increase general enjoyment of the outdoors. Inquiries may be addressed to Box 373, Claremont, New Hampshire.November by Grace Wight Buckle November—like a ship Sailing straight out to sea— Serene and beautiful, and unafraid, For in her hold she has prepared for storms that are to be. 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 4677Troubadour195011 Title A name given to the resource The New Hampshire Troubadour November 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 1950-11 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, Center Sandwich, Hillsboro 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 churches, Franklin Pierce, Milan State Park, state parks, boats, Native Americans Type The nature or genre of the resource Text boats Center Sandwich churches Franklin Pierce Hillsboro Milan State Park Native Americans New Hampshire state parks