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The Mystery Photographs of Herbert E. White By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper All photos by Herbert E. White, courtesy Ossipee Public Library/ Ossipee Historical Society The women stare directly into the camera, sure and serene. You cannot help but look right back at them, and it is hard to take your eyes off their gaze. Although dressed in old-fashioned clothing, one young woman has closecropped hair with curls framing her wide forehead. The other woman looks right at the viewer, with a confront-meif-you dare look. The photo was taken years ago, but it could be today if one were to change the clothing from long dresses and lace to jeans and t-shirts. There is something otherworldly and mysterious about this photograph, and it will surely leave you wanting to know more. Who are these people? Where was the picture taken? And who was the photographer? Although we cannot be sure who the women in the portrait photograph were, or exactly when the photo was taken, we do know the photographer was Ossipee-area resident Herbert E. White. According to information at the Ossipee Historical Society and Ossipee Library, White was a resident of Moultonville, and family members owned various businesses in the vicinity; his brother George was a postmaster and operated a general store. Two other brothers, Orlando and Charles, had started a larger establishment in Center Ossipee, which benefitted from its location near the train station. Herbert was an early

partner in this store, called O. L. & C.A. White’s Strictly Cash. But, unlike the purely business minded in the White family, Herbert had an interest in photography. He set up a professional studio in the back of the store and many of his customers were local people or travelers on the railroad. This is where things get fascinating.

We know Ossipee was a bustling place of industry at the time (1800s). The train carried passengers to far away places and brought other travelers into town for a brief or maybe longer stay. If the passengers were changing trains in Ossipee or had a layover they would probably have exited the train to stretch their legs and get some fresh air. And at that time, they might have seen

Herbert’s photography shop. It is said Herbert advertised that travelers could get their portrait photo taken at his studio and many seem to have done so. But Herbert’s photographs were not at all typical. He had a true artistic eye and an ability to capture his subjects as they were, clearly and with great style. Today, the public can view many of the photos of Herbert E. White at the Ossipee Public Library at 74 Main Street in Center Ossipee. The collection is an incredible find and it gives us an up-close view at how people dressed, posed and looked over 100 years ago. Rather than being stiffly posed photographs, these images show us that our ancestors were very human and approachable. Because some of White’s customers were just passing through the area, we get to see all sorts of people, from young folks to the elderly, who paid the fee and stepped before White’s camera to have their images recorded before getting back on the train. So, how did the library come to have some framed photo portraits and a collection of photo albums with many pictures of people from long ago? According to information at www. ossipee.lib.nh.us, “A collection of over one thousand glass plate negatives was donated to the Ossipee Historical Society several decades ago. These images were archived carefully, but their content remained a mystery.” (Imagine archiving the photos, where women were dressed in ornate costumes • White Continued on page 4

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• White Continued from page 3 and dapper men from the 1800s sat for their pictures to be taken, leaving their images but no information on who they were or why they were in Ossipee – what a mystery!) The website goes on to tell us, “While doing research on the town’s history, locals Brad and Dawn Marion came across the large boxes and recognized their origin and importance. Brad realized that the shadowy images on the silver coatings on the glass plates could be scanned and digitally restored to match what a contact photographic print would have looked like. With the Society’s permission, he restored the complete collection and has put it in a format so that it is readily accessible on a computer without any risk of harm to the originals. He also printed out

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the library or the Historical Society and review the collection. “I was stunned to see many images of relatives and buildings as they looked around the turn of the century [1900],” Dawn Marion said. “I have some photographs that my grandmother left me, so I can identify some of the people, but I was amazed by the amount of material we now had available to go through.” It is worth stopping by the library in Ossipee to see the photo albums or the portraits framed and hanging on the walls of a meeting room in the library. The first thing one is struck by is how much like us these people from long ago really were. The poses are unique for the time, as is the clothing. It adds to the mystery, because, for example, why was a middle-aged, attractive woman dressed for her portrait in a vivid Scottish highlands outfit, plaid from head to toe? And why did a man choose to have his portrait taken when he was dressed in a rather offbeat jacket and a silk scarf instead of a necktie? He

looks like an artist or what one would imagine a contemporary of Thoreau would look like. Among the pictures is one of a middle-age man, strikingly handsome and looking daringly and directly into the camera. He has piercing eyes and a roughly handsome face. His is dressed in a thick turtleneck sweater and an overcoat, looking as if he stepped off the pages of “Moby Dick” as a roughened sea captain. Some photos offer clues, but are still a mystery, such as a rather frightening portrait of a little girl with a tight cap in the style worn by the Shaker women. She has rimless glasses and a frail, rather sickly look about her. She wears an ornate silk dress, and a collection of china headed dolls has been placed all over her skirt and up her arms. A patterned oriental rug covers the floor and the whole affect is startling and odd. Who was she? Was she a child from a wealthy family who showered • White Continued on page 5

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October 2018 • White Continued from page 4 her with dolls and toys but could not find a cure for her illness? One cannot help but wonder what White’s photo studio was like. Did he have costumes for customers who wanted to look their best? Where were the photos taken? Who were these people? What sort of camera did White use and who trained him to capture his subjects with such beauty and clarity? “Along with the large collection of glass negatives, the Historical Society also has the original camera that H. E. White used,” says Brad Marion. “It is a large, wooden box-style camera with an expensive lens. The dry colloidal process required a long exposure time compared to modern cameras, but was a dramatic step forward compared to earlier processes, which might require people to hold a pose for one to two minutes. The alternative was for people to go to a county fair where they might get a single small tin-type.” The photographs are from the time period of 1880 to 1920 and nearly all show us, these many decades’ later, honest-to-goodness real people. Some gaze directly into the camera, but some are looking into the distance on their left or right sides. Some are dressed in high fashion, their hair perfect and their hats ornate. Some, however, feature country people and travelers with less style. These people are perhaps traveling to the White Mountains for a summer job as a waiter or maid at one of the area’s Grand Hotels, so popular at the time. Here and there, among the portraits, are startlingly pictures that touch on the inevitability and nearness of death. At the time White was working, it was

a common practice to have a photo taken of a loved one after death. While it seems rather morbid to us, those who lived in that time period viewed death a bit differently. They lived with sudden death due to accidents or illness on a much larger scale than we experience. They were accustomed to seeing loved ones and friends “laid out” in a coffin and they saw a photo of the dead person as a way to keep something of that person. White’s death portraits include a baby and an older woman, among others, and offer yet another view of those who came before us. The photographs are a great way to track down a picture of an ancestor and genealogy buffs may find the collection useful in research. The photographs of Herbert E. White have a lot to teach us about culture and customs, but they also are true works of art. White may not have meant for the photos to be so attractive and artistic, but they truly are wonderful to look at. One can speculate who these people were, but also how White managed to capture each and every person in an intimate and unique manner. A favorite of many viewers is the portrait of the two women mentioned at the start of this story. We do not necessarily know if they were local women, but they could easily have been train travelers. The mysteries of the many portraits by Herbert White are just waiting to be solved. Stop by the Ossipee Library to see if you can recognize a relative from the past, or simply to enjoy this look back in time. The Ossipee Public Library is located at 74 Main Street in Center Ossipee, NH. Call 603-539-6390 or visit http:// ossipee.lib.nh.us.

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Oct. 18, Castle After Hours, tour famed Lucknow estate in the evening, 5:308:30 pm, Castle in the Clouds, Moultonboro, tickets/info: 476-5900. Oct. 18, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, 7 pm, presenter Margo Burns talks about Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 and 1693, Wolfeboro Public Library, 259 S. Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-2428.

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Oct. 19, NH Pumpkin Carving Competition & Expo, noon, Jackson Village Park, Jackson, pumpkin carving teams, 383-9356. Oct. 19, Outdoor Walk, 10:30 am-noon, learn about plants, herbs, $5 p/p/, geared for age 16 and up, Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm, Tamworth, 323-7591, www.remickmuseum.org. Oct. 19, Woodcraft Wonders Class for Kids with instructor Heidi Fayle, 9:3011:30 am, homeschoolers welcome, Arts Works Chocorua Creative Arts Center, info/pre-register: 323-8041, www.chocoruaartworks.com. Oct. 19-20 & 26-27, A Talent for Murder, Arts in Motion Theatre Co. dinner theatre aboard Conway Scenic Railroad, info@artsinmotiontheater.com. Oct. 19-21, Evil Dead the Musical, 7:30 pm, Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, 335-1992, www.rochesteroperahouse.com. Oct. 19-22, Natural Dyes Part 1, Indigo and Shibori, pm, instructor Sara Goodman, Sandwich Home Industries, 32 Main St., Center Sandwich, preregister: 284-6831, www.centersandwich.nhcrafts.org. Oct. 20, Annual Meeting of Ossipee Historical Society, Ossipee Town Hall, 5 pm, pot luck dinner, short business meeting, intro class on Contra Dancing, 539-1002. Oct. 20, Birch Ridge Series: Fall Foliage Hike, 9-11 am, Birch Ridge Community Forest, Moose Mt. Regional Greenways, info: 473-2020. Oct. 20, Hearthside Dinner, learn how to prepare a meal the old-fashioned way, dinner to follow, 4-8 pm, Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Tamworth, pre-register: 323-7591, www.remickmuseum.org.

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Nov. 15, Shawn Mullins concert, 8 pm, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Brownfield, ME, www.stonemountainartscenter.com, 207-935-7292. Nov. 16-18 & Nov. 23-25, Christmas at the Castle, tours of the Castle, artisan fair in Carriage House, lunch, music and more, Castle in the Clouds, Rt. 171, Moultonboro, 476-5900, www.castelintheclouds.org. Nov. 16-17, Movie: His Girl Friday, 8 pm, The Village Players, Glendon St., Wolfeboro, 569-9656. Nov. 17, Gift of Warmth Road Race, 10 am, Wolfeboro Parks & Recreation, Wolfeboro, 569-5639. Nov. 17, Over the River & Through the Woods, 10 am-3 pm, NH Farm Museum, 1305 White Mt. Highway, Milton, 652-7840, www.NHFarmMuseum. org. Nov. 17, Paula Cole concert, 8 pm, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Brownfield, ME, www.stonemountainartscenter.com, 207-935-7292. Nov. 17, Rockspring band, 8:30 pm, Wolfeboro Inn/Wolfe’s Tavern, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-3016. Nov. 17, Turkey Trot 5K, 8:30 am race check in, start and end at Railroad Depot, Railroad Ave., Wolfeboro Parks and Recreation, 569-5639. Nov. 18, Broadway Bound with song stylist Ashara Stansfield, 4 pm, Mountain Top Music, performance at Albany, tickets/info: 447-4737. Nov. 20, Duct Tape Bracelet, 5:30-6:30 pm, grades 7-12, Gafney Library, 14 High St., Sanbornville, 522-9735. Nov. 22, Thanksgiving at Wolfeboro Inn, 11 am, Wolfeboro Inn/Wolfe’s Tavern, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-3016. Nov. 23, Freedomland, 1:30 pm, free film, Wolfeboro Public Library, 259 S. Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-2428. Not rated, 1940. Nov. 23, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason Family Band, 8 pm, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Brownfield, ME, www.stonemountainartscenter.com, 207-9357292. Nov. 23-25, Christmas at the Castle, tours of the Castle, artisan fair in Carriage House, lunch, music and more, Castle in the Clouds, Rt. 171, Moultonboro, 476-5900, www.castelintheclouds.org. Nov. 23-25, Nov. 30, Journey to the North Pole, 2-hour adventure, takes families on a trip to make-believe North Pole via train, N. Conway, info/tickets: www.journeytothenorthpole.org. Nov. 23-30, Traditionally Yours Celebration, open houses, food, Santa visits Jackson village gazebo, storytelling, info: 383-9356. Nov. 24, Community Contra Dance, 7 pm, Town Hall, 86 S. Main St., Wolfeboro, presented by GALA, www.galacommunity.org. Nov. 24, Santa’s First Visit, 4:30 pm, Jackson village, www.jacksonnh.com. Nov. 24, Shark Martin, 8:30 pm, Wolfeboro Inn/Wolfe’s Tavern, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-3016. ONGOING Art for You, 2nd Thurs. of the month, 4:15 pm, age 5 & up, Gafney Library, Sanbornville, 522-9735. Back Bay Skippers, Model Yachting, racing of radio-controlled model yachts on Bridge Falls Walking Path, Back Bay, Wolfeboro, Tues. and Thurs. 1-4 pm, free, all are welcome, 569-4554.

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Benz Center Senior Meals, Sandwich, each Wednesday at noon. Well-balanced and delicious meal. Age 60 and older are targeted, small donation requested, 284-7211, www.benzcommunitycenter.webs.com. Book Sale, first Sat. of each month, Cook Memorial Library, Tamworth, 10 amnoon, 323-8510. Common Threads, Mondays from 9:30-11 am, group of needle crafters, Rochester Public Library, 65 S. Main St., Rochester, 332-1428.

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Fiber Gatherings, Wednesdays, 7-9 pm, Community Room, Samuel Wentworth Library, Center Sandwich. Knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, needle felting, embroidery, crewel, rug hooking, quilting, sewing - no formal lessons provided but if you need help with a project, there is sure to be someone who can give you pointers. Info/questions: 284-7168. FIKA, every Saturday from noon to 1 pm, experience the custom of FIKA, with a complimentary slice of Scandinavian Almond Cake, Betty Schneider’s Scandinavian Baking, Rt. 113 East, 12 Deer Hill Road, Chocorua, 323-2021. Forgotten Arts: Fiber Arts Group. Meets every other Tuesday, 9:30 am-

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Brewery Tours and More noon. Fiber artists and/or interested onlookers welcome to join Happy Weavers & Friends group to learn the historic art of weaving, spinning, sewing, quilting, and more. Bring a project to work on, if desired. Group meets monthly on every other Tuesday schedule at Remick Museum & Farm, Tamworth Village. Free. (Does not include access to the Museum.) 323-7591. Freefall Exhibit, through Oct. 30, The Met Coffee House, N. Conway, artwork exhibit, 356-2787, www.mwvarts.org. Friday Fireside Gatherings, second Friday of each month through Dec., 7-8:30 pm, gather around the campfire for info on farm animals, gardening and more, campfire snacks, free, Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm, Tamworth, 323-7591, www.remickmuseum.org.

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Mount Washington Observatory Weather Discovery Center, interactive science museum, open daily 10 am-5 pm, (closed Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day). Explore the science of climate and weather through interactive exhibits. 2779 White Mt. Highway, N. Conway, 356-2137. Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, Tamworth, 323-7591, info/events: www.remickmuseum.org. Monday-Friday, 10 am-4 pm. Senior Meals & Bingo, Mon., Wed. & Thurs. bingo at 9 am, lunch at noon, Greater Wakefield Resource Center, $3 donation requested, www. greaterwakefieldresourcecenter.webs.com. SnowCoach Trips, adventure trips to Mt. Washington’s summit, www. mountwashington.org, 356-2137. Story Time Jamboree, first and third Fridays of the month from 10:15-10:45 am, ages 2-5, Gafney Library, Sanbornville, 522-9735. Sunday Brunch Cruise aboard the M/S Mount Washington, through Oct. 22, cruise Lake Winnipesaukee aboard the Mount. Departs Weirs Beach at 10 am and 12:30 pm. Departs from Alton Bay at 11:15 am. 366-5531 or www. cruiseNH.com. Tamworth Farmer’s Market, Saturdays from 9 am-1 pm until Oct. 27 at 30 Tamworth Road, Rt. 113, in parking lot of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Eastern Slope Meeting House, Tamworth, info: www.tamworthfarmersmarket. org. Tamworth Writer’s Group, meets second Tues. of each month, 5 pm, Cook Memorial Library, downtown Tamworth. Led by Ed Martinez, aboutwritingtamworth@gmail.com. Thurs. Night Book Group, meets fourth Thurs. of every month for discussions of books, 7 pm, Mystery Book Group meets second Thurs. of the month, White Birch Books, N. Conway, 356-3200, www.whitebirchbooks.com. Treasure Shop, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9 am to noon, Old Town Hall, 2695 Wakefield Rd., Wakefield, china, toys, small items, yarn, used books, jewelry and more. Fundraiser for Parish Helpers of First Congregational Church, www.fccwakefieldnh.org. Wolfeboro Inn Special Events, Taco Night on Tuesdays; Sun. Brunch, every Sun. 10 am-2 pm; music on Sat. nights, Wolfe’s Tavern, Wolfeboro Inn, 90 N. Main St., Wolfeboro, 569-3016, www.wolfeboroinn.com.

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Full evening at the Freedom Family Bonfire Storytime on Historical Society October 26 Freedom Historical Society members and guests are invited to attend a fun potluck dinner on Wednesday, October 24 at 5:30 pm. The event will take place at the Freedom Town Hall on Elm Street in Freedom, with a program to follow. There will be a membership/brief business meeting during dinner to elect 2019 Freedom Historical Society Jeff Warner officers. All members are encouraged to attend to get an update on the progress of the Society and the latest news. At 7 pm, following the potluck dinner and annual meeting for members, a NH Humanities Council sponsored program titled “Songs of Old New Hampshire” will be presented by Jeff Warner. Warner connects 21st-century audiences with the music and everyday lives of 19th-century people. He presents musical traditions from the Outer Banks fishing villages of North Carolina to the lumber camps of the Adirondack Mountains and the whal-

ing ports of New England. Warner accompanies his songs on concertina, banjo, guitar and several “pocket instruments,” such as bones and Jew’s harp. Warner is a Folklorist and Community Scholar for the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and a 2007 State Arts Council Fellow. Drawing heavily on the material of traditional singer Lena Bourne Fish (1873-1945) of Jaffrey and Temple, New Hampshire, Warner offers the songs and stories that reflect our history. The ballads, love songs and comic pieces reveal the experiences and emotions of daily life in the time before movies, and the mass availability of books. Refreshments will be served after the program. Baked ham will be on the menu and provided by the Society for the potluck dinner; attendees are asked to bring a side dish or dessert to share. For information email FHSociety28@gmail.com.

Moose Mountains Regional Greenways (MMRG) is offering a Family Bonfire Storytime evening of naturerelated children’s games, songs, and stories on Friday, October 26, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The activity is part of MMRG’s ‘MOOSE-ies for Families’ program, which seeks to foster future generations of conservationists by providing opportunities for children and their families to have fun together outdoors while learning about the natural world. One year ago, a similar Bonfire Storytime was the kick-off event for the newly-initiated ‘MOOSE-ies for Families’ series. Kids and adults were entranced with tales of creepy creatures brought by MMRG volunteer Pastor Tom Gardner, who teaches nature’s classroom for Middleton Schools. Music-making and theatrical stories also got everyone thoroughly engaged as the bonfire blazed. Once again led by MMRG staff and volunteers, this year’s Family Bonfire Storytime will feature more treats, participatory games, music and story-telling around the bonfire. Pre-registration is required to participate in ‘MOOSE-ies for Families’

activities. For information, directions and to pre-register, contact MMRG’s Education Coordinator Kari Lygren at 603-978-7125 or email info@mmrg. info. MOOSE-ies for Families’ stands for Members Only Outdoor and Social Events for Families; the program of six ‘MOOSE-ies for Families’ activities per year is free for MMRG members. If the membership fee of $25 per household per year is a financial burden, families may inquire of Executive Director Patti Connaughton-Burns about available scholarships by calling 603-473-2020. MMRG, a non-profit land trust, works to conserve and connect important water resources, farm and forest lands, wildlife habitats, and recreational land in Brookfield, Farmington, Middleton, Milton, New Durham, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro. Throughout the year, MMRG offers many educational opportunities to inform all ages about the benefits of our region’s natural resources. For more information and a calendar of upcoming events, visit www.mmrg. info.

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Get Rockin’ at the Rochester Performance & Arts Center The Rochester Performance & Arts Center (RPAC) is thrilled to present the Adam Ezra Group on Saturday, October 27 at 8 pm. The Adam Ezra Group has a proud tradition of throwing Halloween parties filled with as much visual idiocy as they can pack into one night. This year they’ve chosen to invite fans to join them in a 1980s metal themed head-bangers’ ball that will glorify an era of big hair, bad make-up, and leather attire limited only by the imagination of the wearer. So come as you are, choose your own costume theme, or go all-in and hornsout with us in as much metal glory as you dare to to wear. It may not be pretty, but it sure will be an unforgettable night with one of Boston’s most talked about bands performing a night of their folk-inspired, roots-rock! The King of Romance Legendary recording artist Engelbert Humperdinck will perform at the Opera House on Friday, November 2 at 8 pm. Engelbert Humperdinck, “The King of Romance,” has wooed generations of fans with the hits Release Me (And Let Me Love Again), After the Lovin’, The Last Waltz, I’ll Walk Alone, Help Me Make It Through the Night, and There Goes My Everything. Engelbert exploded onto the music scene in the 1960s with The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The shy, handsome boy catapulted almost instantly to become a world icon. His first single in the charts was Release Me, which went into the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks on the charts. It was No. 1 in 11 countries. In a career spanning almost 50 years, Engelbert Humperdinck has generated sales in excess of 140 million records, including 64 gold albums and 35 platinum, four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe, and stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Las Vegas Walk of Fame, and Leicester Walk of Fame. He has recorded everything from the most romantic ballads to movie theme songs, disco, rock, and even gospel. His unique voice has charmed millions of fans around the globe. AC/DC Tribute Show Take an unpredictable thrill ride with the nation’s #1 AC/DC Tribute Band ‘Dirty Deeds’ — back at the Rochester Opera House by popular demand. This show is high energy and wild

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“I am not sorry when silence becomes singing” By Mark Foynes “I wouldn’t give an inch of New Hampshire for all the rest of New England.” These were the words of E.E. Cummings, one of the most revolutionary and well-respected poets in twentieth century American literature. The rugged and craggy landscape of the White Mountains was the backdrop to (and occasionally the inspiration of) some of his best-loved writings. Just off Route 16, in the Silver Lake section of Madison, there’s a rambling farmstead that would help forge one of most singular poetic voices of the past 100 years. Edward Estlin Cummings was a literary innovator. Many of his poems heralded the virtues of nature - a perspective that was likely shaped by his summers as a boy and an adult at Joy Farm in the southern White Mountains. Many of his best-known works were written and revised in plain view of Mt. Chocorua, which dominated the skyline from the vantage of his porch where he mused between bursts of creativity. Cummings’ style is marked by a neartotal disregard for traditional grammar and syntax. He created a literary voice that combined elements that varied from the whimsical to the capricious and the lyrical. Many of the Cambridge-born poet’s best-known works evoked imagery from nature and the pastoral landscape. While he was born in the Boston area to a Harvard professor turned minister, Cummings’ writings struck a balance between the urban and the idyllic.

His work combined the Brahmin sophistication of a person born into one of Boston’s leading families with a desire to connect with the elemental aspects of a pastoral life. Cummings spent every summer at Joy Farm from his boyhood through his death in 1962. His family bought Joy Farm near Silver Lake from a farmer named Ephraim Joy in 1899, when Cummings was five. In 1910 Cummings’ father, also named Edward, built a summer home on the lake shore and began leasing Joy Farm. In 1929 Cummings’ widowed mother deeded the farm to the ascendant poet. With an abiding love of the N.H. landscape, he returned there every summer for the rest of his life. Once married, his wife Marion was a constant companion - off-seasons in the city, and summer times at their alpine getaway. Regarded as one of the seminal literary figures of the twentieth century, Cummings is famous for not capitalizing words that grammatically should be - and capitalizing words that ordinarily wouldn’t be. He placed punctuation in the strangest places to punctuate his poetic message. He was also a master at deconstructing words. One classic example: l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness At the outset, it appears to be just

a jumble of letters. A closer look, however, reveals that it can be read as “loneliness (a leaf falls).” The theme of solitude is reinforced by the repetition of lower-case ‘l’s’ that resemble the number one - as well as the isolation of the word fragment ‘one’ within ‘loneliness’. One can almost imagine the poet sitting on his porch during a contemplative moment as a Silver Lake summer transitioned away toward the resplendent, but bittersweet, fallows of fall. Many of his best loved writings blended a certain linguistic innovativeness with a nod to traditional forms like the sonnet (think Shakespeare). While many of these poems followed the iambic pentameter and the 14-line hallmarks of the form, many of Cummings’ sonnets eschewed rhyming altogether or made liberal use of what scholars refer to as “slant rhymes” - words that have some phonetic similarities but aren’t true rhymes. For example, the opening stanza of one of his better known poems reads:  being to timelessness as it’s to time, love did no more begin than love will end; where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim love is the air the ocean and the land He also had a penchant for coining new words. His ode to the equinox employs the words “mud-luscious” and “puddle-wonderful” to describe the season. In Justspring when the world is

mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it’s spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch and jump-rope and it’s spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and wee The idyllic setting of Silver Lake’s Joy Farm gave Cummings the room to roam emotionally, intellectually, and creatively. Just off Route 16, there is a special place that inspired one of the greatest poets of the age. To be sure, Cummings’ connection to Madison is part of a broader literary connection in N.H. Thornton Wilder’s Our Town nominally set in Grover’s Corners - is believed to have been inspired by Peterborough in the Monadnock Region. Curious George was created • Silence Continued on page 13

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October 2018 • Silence Continued from page 12 by Hans and Margret Rey - WWIIera Jewish refugees who relocated to Waterville Valley. Closer to the Lakes Region, Grace Metalious’ Peyton Place is believed to have been based on reallife scandals in the town of Gilmanton. Robert Frost’s classic poems “Mending Wall” and “Road Not Taken” were written while he farmed in the Granite State. And the list goes on. Cummings’ connection to Madison’s Silver Lake dated to his boyhood. His father, also named Edward, was a prominent Boston Congregationalist minister and a professor at Harvard. (Consequently, the poet Edward Estlin Cummings preferred to be called Estlin to distinguish himself from his noteworthy father). In 1899, the Cummings family acquired their summer getaway in the lower Mt. Washington Valley; the region’s vistas would instill in the poet-to-be a love of nature that would permeate much of his writings as an adult. In the late 1920s, Cummings’ widowed mother deeded Joy Farm to Estlin, who, with his life partner, Marion Morehouse Cummings, made it their summertime getaway. Marion herself was quite accomplished. As a fashion model, she was featured in Vogue and Vanity Fair. After her modeling career ended, she took up photography and published a volume of her work. Although five and a half decades have transpired since Cummings’ passing, there are still some locals who recall the poet. Carol Batchelder is now 86. She has a shiv-sharp wit. (I called her out of

Joy Farm, Silver Lake. (Carroll County, New Hampshire) the blue last week expecting to have to provide a lot of context about how we met years back at the Tamworth Historical Society. No need. She remembered me. She remembers.) Batchelder’s mother was the postmaster of the Silver Lake Post Office, a small rural outpost similar to those that can be found in Mirror Lake, Union, Barnstead Parade, and Chocorua Village. This was the post office that was Cummings’ lifeline to the outside world when he was summering at Silver Lake. He enjoyed the solitude, but needed to keep contact with publishers and cultural figures in New York and Boston. Batchelder used to help her mother during the summer months at the post office and recalls Cummings driving in to the facility’s small lot in his

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Model A. On some occasions, he was dropping off manuscripts of poems that would eventually become part of the canon of American verse. “He always wore white gloves,” she recalled. Batchelder said these were akin to gardening gloves. Why? Batchelder can only speculate, but she reckons that, being from the city, he might not have had the most calloused hands and fingers. “He was a writer, and he needed to protect his hands so he could write that beautiful, challenging poetry on his typewriter,” she reasoned. She also noted that Cummings was an avid painter, and that he often needed to use harsh chemicals to clean his hands - substances that could have rendered his skin sensitive and chapped. Batchelder recalls being dispatched

Page 13 by the post office to hand-deliver a finished manuscript the publisher had shipped to Cummings directly from the printer. “I remember turning off the engine and hearing the sound of typing coming from the house. [His wife] Marion would greet me at the door and receive the parcel so as not to disturb him as he was writing,” Batchelder recalled. “His mind always seemed like it was on fire,” Batchelder added. She also remembered that Cummings enjoyed spending his downtime on the farmhouse’s porch, casting wistful glances toward the peaks and ridges on the horizon. “Chocorua was like a magnet for those deep and probing eyes,” Batchelder said. After completing her education, Batchelder went on to teach English and literature in the Harvard, Mass. public schools, where she took delight in introducing a new generation to Cummings’ poetry. “His poetry is definitely challenging, but that’s the role of a teacher - to challenge,” she noted. Batchelder was teaching during a time when non-conformity was all the rage. Although his work can indeed be difficult to decipher, Cummings’ disregard for a lot of the accepted literary conventions endeared his work to many of Batchelder’s students. She noted that the poet’s flair for literary innovation and Cummings’ wide-open embrace of a certain syntactical frivolity appealed to a lot of her students. She believes his poetry sparked an interest in a broader literary world. • Silence Continued on page 14

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Page 14 • Silence Continued from page 13 Since retirement, Batchelder has shared her personal recollections of Cummings at several public presentations at venues including the N.H. Historical Society, the Wright Museum of WWII History, and the Tamworth Historical Society. In many cases, she’s joined by friend and neighbor Ruth Shackford who helped take care of the Cummings’ property. Ruth is now 90. She and her late husband, Jesse, tended to Joy Farm in the offseason and helped the Cummings out during the summer when things needed attention. Ruth said that the Cummings’ original caretaker was a gentleman named Sam Ward, who was also the overseer of a number of Silver Lake cottages. After Ward’s passing, the Shackfords took over, beginning first with her fatherin-law Jesse Sr., and then she and her husband, Jesse Jr. By 1952, the Cummings were mainstays of the community and Ruth and Jesse were always on call. At the time, the Shackfords were living in a duplex a short way away in East Madison and could be at the Cummings’ within a few minutes. “They were pretty low maintenance, as I recall. They just liked to be on their own, but liked knowing there was someone to call on if they needed a hand,” Shackford remembered. Ruth Shackford recalled that her husband Jesse kept Joy Farm Road

in passable condition. (To this day, Joy Farm Road is still marked; it rises sharply before leveling off. Ruth recalled that Jesse graded the drive with a contraption he lugged behind his truck on an annual basis). “[Cummings] would call up every May to ask about the local road conditions,” Shackford recalled. “We’d keep the road to his farm in good condition, but the town roads were another story,” she laughed, recalling an era when many side roads were unpaved. “So sometimes they’d come up in mid-May, and other years it was closer to Memorial Day, depending on how the roads were,” she added. “So sometimes I’d say come on up, but some years I’d say let’s wait a week, things are a little sloppy,” Shackford recalled. She added, “But they always wanted to come up as soon as they could; this was really their special place.” Shackford said Estlin and Marion tended to stay at Silver Lake from late May through mid-October, the period when the leaves came into full bloom and changed from a ruddy green to ephemeral ochres, scarlets, and shades of saffron. “He seemed really in tune with the natural cycles and enjoyed the changes in the landscape,” Shackford recalled. Ruth also recollects managing the annual registration of Cummings’ Model A Ford, which was his local daily driver. “He kept it in the barn and really only used it to run small errands, but it was a way he could be in contact

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with the outside world on his own terms.” “He’d send a check for the registration, and so everything would be all set for him when he came up,” Shackford said. She recalled Cummings’ last years coming up to Joy Farm in the late 1950s and 60s. By this point, the poet was taking a train up from New York to Dover. Ruth would pick up Estlin and Marion and drive them up to Silver Lake. “He would sit in the passenger seat and Marion sat in back,” Shackford recalled. She noted that the poet’s wife was nearly deaf by this point. “He talked constantly, and every drive was like a college lecture,” she recalled, suggesting that having a spouse who was hard of hearing possibly bottled up a wellspring of notions and ideas. “He was so very smart, he would talk about fascinating things all the way,” Ruth recalled of their trips from the seacoast up to Joy Farm. On occasion, Ruth would cook for the poet and his wife. “They ate fairly meager meals,” she recalled. Shackford said she only infrequently cooked for the couple, but that Marion would occasionally request an angel food cake, which she was especially fond of. The Shackfords’ primary duties consisted of preparing Joy Farm in the spring and buttoning it up in the fall. Although Ruth and Jesse were technically hired hands, she recalls that there was a definite feeling of mutual affection between the two couples. “Sometimes I’d be by and Estlin would invite me up on the porch to sit with him and Marion,” she said. Shackford recalled that Cummings had trained the chipmunks to eat from his hand. Even when he didn’t summon the critters to him, sometimes they would mount the porch, climb on his lap, and rifle through his pockets in search of a snack. Shackford still recalls the September 1962 day when Cummings died. Having suffered what turned out to be a massive stroke, Shackford’s son followed the ambulance from Joy Farm up to Memorial Hospital in North Conway, where the poet was pronounced dead. “It was really a shame because he had gotten to a point where people were, I think, really coming to appreciate his work and how good it was,” Shackford said. “I think he still had a lot of poetry left in him, which he unfortunately took with him,” she added. That said, Cummings continues to play a role in the Shackford family. When her grandson recently married, Ruth’s granddaughter-in-law read his poem, “i carry your heart with me,” whose second stanza reads:

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you There are others who cherish his writings and seek to share the poet’s connection to the Granite State. Portsmouth’s Pontine Theater mounted a production in the early 2000s titled Silver Lake Summers: An E.E. Cummings Revue. Drawing upon Cummings’ papers at Harvard University, excerpts from his published works, family photos, and the environment at Silver Lake, the production explored Cummings’ special connection to New Hampshire and the ways in which his experiences in the White Mountains shaped his artistic vision and body of work. Since its initial run, Pontine has retooled the production so it can travel to venues across the state. The modified performance is among the programs listed in the N.H. Humanities Council’s “Humanities to Go” initiative, which provides mini-grants to libraries, civic groups, and historical societies to pay speaker and performer stipends. I saw the original production of Silver Lake Summers back in the early 2000s and was delighted to learn that a version of the play has taken on a second life as a traveling program. Pontine’s Greg Gathers described the traveling version as a “somewhat pared down version of the original where we perform excerpts from the original and set the stage for readings and discussions.” Pontine is distinctive in its use of minimal stage settings, allowing the two-person company to be “light and nimble,” according to Gathers. Pontine is unique among N.H. theater producers in that they only put on original productions, which are written, researched, and designed by Gathers and founder Marguerite Matthews. Most, if not all, of their productions draw inspiration from N.H. history. They have produced plays on topics like child labor in 19th century N.H., Sarah Orne Jewett of South Berwick, and Ogden Nash’s connection to Little Boar’s Head in North Hampton. Gathers said when Pontine was preparing for the original Silver Lake production, he delved deep into the Harvard archives, which houses the largest collection of Cummings’ correspondence and manuscripts. “That was a while ago, but I remember pouring through the documents, really trying to get into his head,” Gathers recalled. Silver Lake Summers, like • Silence Continued on page 15

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October 2018 • Silence Continued from page 15 many of Pontine’s productions, was a two person show; he played the role of the poet, while Matthews, his artistic partner, played the part of Cummings’ wife Marion. Gathers said the cache of documents at Harvard provided plenty of fodder to assemble a script and allow him and Matthews to accurately reassemble the characters of these historical figures. While Pontine only occasionally presents its Silver Lake traveling program, Gathers said he and Matthews are willing and eager to perform it for interested audiences anywhere in N.H. and southern Maine. (For information about obtaining a Humanities Council mini-grant, their contact information is listed at the end of this article). One of the most indelible marks that Madison left on Twentieth Century American literature took form in Cummings’ poem, “i am a little church (no great cathedral),” written on VE

Along Route 16 Day, 1945. The opus was inspired by the white clapboarded 1789 Madison Church, whose candle-lit windows summoned up the following verses: i am a little church (no great cathedral) far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities - i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest, i am not sorry when sun and rain make april my life is the life of the reaper and the sower; my prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving (finding and losing and laughing and crying) children whose any sadness or joy is my grief or my gladness Cummings continued: Around me surges a miracle of unceasing birth and glory and death and resurrection: over my sleeping self float flaming symbols of hope, and I wake to a perfect patience of mountains. I am a little church (far from the frantic

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world with its rapture and anguish) at peace with nature. I do not worry if longer nights grow longest; I am not sorry when silence becomes singing. It concludes: Winter by spring, I lift my diminutive spire to merciful Him Whose only now is forever: standing erect in the deathless truth of His presence (welcoming humbly His light and proudly His darkness). For Further Investigation: E.E. Cummings Society This website features a blog authored by literary scholars and poetry enthusiasts. Some of the articles feature information about the poet’s Joy Farm experience. The site is regularly updated, with articles posted as recently as this August. www.eecsocietyblog.org Madison Historical Society PO Box 505, 19 East Madison Road Madison, NH 03849

ldns7558@gmail.com www.madisonnhhistoricalsociety. org 603-367-4640 Pontine Theater  1 Plains Avenue Portsmouth, NH 03801 436-6660 info@pontine.org www.pontine.org N.H. Humanities Council  117 Pleasant St, Concord, NH 03301 224-4071 www.nhhumanities.org The Council provides mini-grants to underwrite the cost of lectures and performances, including a traveling version of Silver Lake Summers. Harvard University The institution houses the largest collection of Cummings’ personal papers and manuscripts. Harvard has an online finding aid at poetry.harvard. edu/edward-estlin-cummings.

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Here We Trick or treating is a lot of fun for kids, but now and then older kids and adults just want to get in on the Halloween fun. The entire family can also celebrate the fall season with these great events in the area. The Ghoullog takes place on Fridays and Saturdays until November 3 at Cranmore Mountain in North Conway (at 1 Skimobile Road). The ski resort is transformed for the haunting season: the chairlift becomes a Halloween thrill ride. Guests can take the chairlift to the summit for a tour of The Ghoullog! To see all the scary things in store and to get tickets, visit www.theghoullog. com. The Return of the Pumpkin People runs through October 31 in the Jackson village area. The fun self-guided tour (using the official Return of the Pumpkin People Map) will lead you to the official host properties. You can also visit the All Things Pumpkin Festival from October 14 to 31. The festival will include the Return of the Pumpkin People, a pumpkin carving contest, magic shows, tastings and much more. The event is free; visit www.jacksonnh.com for details. Sweet Street will take place in Jackson village on October 31 at 4 pm. Families are invited to a safe, old fashioned Community Trick or Treat Block Party. The event is targeted for

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