Only a Picture Stops Time

 A Fire-Breathing Dragon I guess it was inevitable that Bill Tobin would come up with something special for the 1987 Regatta on Water Loom Pond. He was a builder with a creative mind. He wasn't going to settle with just a Loch Ness replica, this was a fully operational FIRE BREATHING Loch Ness replica. The Seal Of New Hampshire Years later, Bill would create his masterpiece. A larger than life three dimensional replica of Seal of New Hampshire. It made many appearances over the years such as this on in the Amherst, NH 2011 Fourth of July parade. I never did learn what became of the dragon. Perhaps some misty morning I might spot it at Water Loom belching fire.

  New Ipswich Transfer Station We no longer have a dump in traditional sense. We have a transfer station. However I have fond memories of Scofield Town Dump picking with my dad on Saturday in Stamford, CT. Old habits don't fade away, so I still check out the metal pile in New Ipswich to see what treasures I might find. Imagine my surprise when I saw an Oscilloscope. I wasn't just any run of of the mill oscilloscope, it was made by DuMont Laboratories . They were pioneers in television technology. They were famous for their Cathode Ray Tubes, which is the heart of an Oscilloscope. What the hell is an Oscilloscope? In my opinion an oscilloscope is the ultimate electronic test instrument. It can graph an electrical signal in X-Y coordinates and display it on a CRT screen. If you've ever watched Outer Limits or Ernie Kovacs , you've seen an oscilloscope display. Usually the electrical signal is plotted against time but if two sinusoidal signal are plotted against each othe...

  GREENVILLE NEW HAMPSHIRE RaiL-HISTORY-Road Some historical information gathered about the activities of this railroad terminal. It was fully active from the time it was built around 1850 to 1950. It served the textile industry, chair industry, and wood turning industry, serving New Ipswich, N.H. Temple, NH, and Greenville farmers. There were three round trips of the passenger trains per day, six days a week and one round trip on Sundays. The hours of departure at 6.45A.M., return at 10.15AM, next train departure 11.45 AM. return at 215P.M., last train departure at 4.45 P.M., return at 7.15 P.M. Sunday departure at 6.45 A.M., return at 4.00 P.M. Mileage to Ayer Junction Mass. was about twenty miles going through Pratt Station, Mason N.H, West Townsend, Townsend Center, Townsend Harbor, West Groton and Ayer Mass. There was freight service six days a week, once every day. Ayer Junction terminal has served passengers and freight traffic coming from Boston on the Fitchburg Division, f...

  The 1946 Appleton class photo brought back some memories for some readers. Here is something a bit more "recent". The Appleton Academy class of 1958 in Washington, DC. It appears that the photographer spent some time arranging everybody by height with one exception.

  The Senior Class Trip to Washington, DC and a chance to meet New Hampshire Senator Charles W. Tobey in 1946. Appleton Academy senior class in Washington, DC on a sightseeing tour. Senior Class Trip chaperones were Emil Saari and Virginia Aho. Emil Saari, chaperone for the Appleton Academy Senior Trip in 1946.

 January 28, 2020 I took this photo of Daniel M. Ziarnik-Case standing next to the New Ipswich Time Capsule in 2020 at a quilting presentation at the New Ipswich Library. At this point the capsule was already 20 years old. I'm not sure how old Dan is. I've named this blog "Only a Picture Stops Time". However that might also apply to the time capsule Which  was dedicated for the town's 250th anniversary. June 17, 2000 (The Dedication) Dedication of Time Capsule Box with Christopher Rodier & Kristina Salokangas, June 17, 2000. Photo by John C. Cooke. Dedication of Time Capsule Box - John Sterret, Christopher Rodier & Kristina Salokangas, Photo by John C. Cooke.  Dedication of Time Capsule Box - John Sterret has a word with  Kristina Salokangas What's Inside? I doubt I'll be around in 2050 when they open this thing. To me 2000 doesn't seem like a long time ago, but it was 22 years ago. A gallon of gas was $1.26. The Backstreet Boys were popular . ...

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...