A photograph captures a moment of time. This blog is a collection of random moments covering a time span of 100+ years. I've included other media that I've gathered over the decades.
Daily Picture Theme - #Cast
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November 14, 2025
Casting iron at the Andres Art Institute in Brookline, NH
The daily picture theme for November 14, 2025 is #Cast. This is a theme that suggests several pictures.
Cast of a PTA Play in New Ipswich, NH - circa 1926
Ben's broken wrist = Ouch
Cast aluminum piston from a Russian Tank which someone gave me when I worked at Digital. Just one of the useless items I've acquired over the decades
Cast iron toy from the Green Center
Musical Coda
Another tune that I forgot to include for Veterans Day. With all the men sent to war, there was no one left for Maypole dancing. The tune is a lot older.
The Little Red School House located in New Canaan, CT was Connecticut's last operating one-room schoolhouse. My cousin's husband attended the school and took us for a tour in October of 2006. Opening its doors in 1868, this Carter Street treasure was Connecticut’s last operating one-room schoolhouse when it closed in 1957. Acquired by the Society in 2003, it was restored thanks to the generous support of Society members, nonprofit groups, former students and friends. Longtime Schoolmistress Mary J. Kelley, who studied there in the 1890s and went on to earn a teaching certificate, was a “loving but strict” presence there for 47 years. The Kelley family home is just a stone’s throw from her classroom. Like the Rock School, the small room centered around the pot-bellied stove, with rows of slanted desks screwed to the wood-plank floor. Some 30 children from first through fifth grades received instruction under the watchful eyes of Miss Kelley. Former students recall that...
The Samuel Tarbell-Ames House is one of the homes located in the National Register of Historic Places, New Ipswich Center Village Historic District. Center village is bounded roughly by Turnpike Road, Porter Hill Road, Main Street, Route 123A, Preston Hill Road, Manley Road and King Road. This is the description of the #34 property in the National Register: This large residence was built by Samuel Tarbell Ames (1810-1897), probably around 1890, as he is listed as owner on the 1892 Map. He was a Boston businessman who summered in New Ipswich, presumably before he built this house, as his wife was Mary Hartwell Barr, a daughter of Dr. James Barr, who lived at #33 across Appleton Common, and a sister of George Lyman Barr and Caroline Frances Barr, and whose cousin Elizabeth Keyser, lived at #30. The house then passed to Samuel's son, James Barr Ames (1846-1910), who was an Assistant Professor and Dean of the Harvard Law School. He was esteemed for his teaching and writing on l...
Veterans Breakfast Thank you students and staff of Mascenic High School for hosting a breakfast for the town Veterans. Also thanks for the serenade of military service songs for each branch. Serving Breakfast to Veterans Chatting with Teachers and Veterans
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