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April 2020 | ALONG ROUTE 16 | Page 1

ROUTE 16 & The Scenic Byways of Rtes. 25, 28, 108, 109, 113, 125, 153 & 171

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Virtual Events | Page 3

Publisher’s Note | Page 5

Branch Hill Farm | Page 4

Yesteryear | Page 11

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By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper

On any given day, year-round, the Route 16 region, from Wakefield to Conway and beyond, offers something to do. There is hiking, biking, skiing, shopping, dining and live theatre.

With the stay-at-home order now in place in NH, families must rethink trips and activities. Luckily, many places are offering virtual learning and events from concerts to art lessons to meet-up groups.

A wonderful place to visit any time of the year, the Conway Public Library is located at 15 Greenwood Avenue in Conway. Although the library is closed until May (call for updates or check www.conwaypubliclibrary.org), you can get your middle school kids involved in a Book Club via Zoom on Monday, April 27 from 5 to 6 pm. For grades 6 to 8, the Zoom meeting will be a lot of fun, with guidance from a Conway librarian.

The library will also feature ancestry. com remotely. Log in to your account through the library catalog and then work on your ancestry research project from your home. You also can check out fascinating North Conway Reporter newspaper back copies, digitized through 1973. It’s a promise: start by reading one old newspaper and you will find yourself spending hours reading about happenings long ago, local advertisements (seven rolls of toilet paper for 50 cents at Connor’s market in North Conway in 1926!) and more.

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Believe in Books Literacy Foundation in Intervale is all about encouraging children’s literacy. The Foundation does this through a variety of fun events and programs throughout the year. Although some upcoming programs are postponed, things are continuing virtually. Every Saturday at 9:30 am, the popular Storybook Character Breakfast will take place, virtually…right in your kitchen! Families should make their own pancakes (at home) and enjoy a different story each week with a new group of friends from the Theater in the Wood. On April 18, The Lorax is scheduled; Aladdin & Friends will stop by on April 25 and on May 2 the Cat in the Hat appears.

As of press time, Believe in Books posted, “We also encourage everyone to enjoy our Storybook Trails by getting outside and reading at the same time! The 100-Acre Wood Trail System is currently open daily from 9 am to 4 pm and is free for all.”

Believe in Books also offers Daily Live Readings; call 356-9980 or visit

www.believeinbooks.org for details.

Believe in Books is located at 41 Observatory Way in Intervale, NH. The Mount Washington Observatory is offering a Virtual Classroom for grades 3 to 8 on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 11:15 am. The Observatory’s summit scientists will take 15 minutes to share the latest weather conditions and forecasts from high above the tree line, followed by a Q&A session.

Content will expand on Mount Washington Observatory’s well-established distance learning program that connects students across the country to the excitement and science taking place in the “Home of the World’s Worst Weather”.

The Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm in Tamworth is staying connected to families with virtual classroom videos. Even when you cannot travel far, there are still many ways you can connect to the earth’s systems and our farms and food—right from your own home. Join Remick program manager Jim Cruickshank to learn ways to experience these themes while in your

home, yard or garden. Episode One is on Phenology. You don’t have to have a forest or field available to study nature! If you can hear the first cricket of the year or keep an eye out for a dandelion flower in your yard, you can study the cycles that plants and animals go through that are brought on by weather and the seasons—also known as Phenology. Join Jim to learn a little more about what you can keep an eye out for at home, and some fun ways to record these awesome seasonal phenomena.

More videos will be available soon via the Remick’s website.

The Remick Museum is also offering curbside pickup for orders of Remick beef, lamb, pork, eggs, maple syrup and other products.

Those who wish to hike the property should follow the social distancing six ft. rule and stay strictly on the Binsack Trail. (You may not venture onto other areas of the property and the animals are strictly off limits.) The trail is accessed from Great Hill Road, above the cattle barn and from Cleveland Hill Road, across the street from the Remick parking lot. These are carry-in, carry-out trails, so please be respectful.

Call 323-7591 or visit www.remickmuseum.org.

The Milton Public Library offers many links to educational and fun programs, such as a Civics 101 podcast from NHPR; a Library of Congress video and much more. Visit Milton Library’s Facebook page for suggestions and updates.

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Branch Hill Farm to Plant Heritage Apple Orchard

By Sarah Wright Did you know that back in the early to mid-1800s, there were thousands of apple varieties? In fact, before the Macintosh, Baldwin apples were considered the apple of New England. A severe winter in 1933 wiped out 90% of the local apples. Looking for a sturdier variety, Macs were imported from Canada. I learned these fun historical facts from Jared Kane, the Executive Director of Branch Hill Farm in Milton Mills—a 3,000-acre, award-winning tree farm and working agricultural farm. This spring, Branch Hill Farm and The Carl Siemon Charitable Family Trust will be planting a heritage apple orchard that will be open to the public for tours and tastings.

The orchard was Jared’s idea. He’s been a self-proclaimed apple explorer for many years and says his “obsessive hobby” is evident in the 200 trees currently planted in his own backyard.

He’ll gladly visit with people who tell him about old apple trees on their properties, and he’s been known to stop and knock on doors when he sees an interesting-looking apple tree. Jared also enjoys making varieties of hard cider and has won awards for his efforts.

When Jared met with the board of Branch Hill Farm, they loved the idea and agreed to give him some acreage across the road from the farm to plant his historical tree collection. His plan is for a completely holistic orchard, using a technique from Europe where livestock are brought in every couple of weeks to eat the grass and fertilize the soil. A pollinator garden of wildflowers will also be part of the plan, along with a hedge border to collect beneficial insects. Natural pest control methods will be used, like planting chives at the base of the apple trees. Jared’s main goals include saving the genetic diversity of apples, holding informational tours and fall tastings for the public, and as

Jared Kane with an ancient tree in central NH. The tree is one of his favorites. (right) Roxbury Russet is probably the oldest known variety from America circa 1600s.

a place to hold pruning classes.

Visitors may be surprised by what they see at the orchard. Apple farms of today are planted with dwarf trees. They produce fruit in just a couple of years, and have about a 20-year life span.

Jared plans to plant traditionally with the root stock, which will take much

longer to grow to full-capacity, but the trees will be 20- to 30-feet tall. Also, typical old-fashioned apple trees have a lifespan of 100 to 200 years. That’s another reason why Jared is willing to hunt down old trees—they may be on

their way out.

So, how did we get to the modern apple farms popular today? Believe it or not, there was a time when people really didn’t just eat apples off the tree.

Most apples of long ago were used for either hard cider, livestock feed, or for baking or cooking. With the advent of big, industrial farming, farmers began to clone certain varieties, searching for shiny red apples that looked great and shipped well. Newer varieties could also produce fruit every year, compared to the older trees that fruited every other year. The old varieties soon went out of favor and the Red Delicious made its debut.

I asked Jared if he had any favorite historical varieties, and he told me a story about this one, unique wild apple tree that he once found. He picked some apples from it to make cider, since they were definitely not sweet apples, and he stored them away. He forgot about the apples, discovering them about a year later. Fearing they’d be spoiled, he found them to be just as crisp as the day he picked them, with the same sharp flavor. Thus, he named them “New Hampshire’s Everlasting,” or “Shire’s Everlasting” for short.

Jared also has a fondness for Roxbury Russets, the oldest American named variety from 1630s Boston. “They’re ugly with their brown webbing, but delicious,” Jared says.

While in Dover, Jared came across an ancient-looking tree in a woman’s yard. He asked her a few questions about it and told her she had the Duchess of Oldenburg variety. Duchess apples were brought over from Russia to Massachusetts in the early 1800s. It was a great, early-season apple, and the fruit was perfect for applesauce. The homeowner knew about the delicious applesauce, but was excited to learn

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Jared is always on the lookout for old apple (or pear) trees. If you are reading this article and know of an old tree that still produces fruit, or one with a large, possibly hollowed-out trunk, contact Jared Kane at 603-473-2535 or email jared_kane@branchhillfarm.org. Include as much information about the tree as you can, with photos if possible.

Your tree might become a part of history and be grafted into the Branch Hill Farm heritage orchard!

While interviewing Jared for this story, I couldn’t help but think of good ol’ Johnny Appleseed. Jared was happy to discuss the well-known pioneer. I learned that despite his portrayal of being a pauper, he was actually a shrewd businessman. Back in the 1820s and 1830s, a settler from Massachusetts could earn land out west by planting

apple trees. Johnny Appleseed was promised 100 acres, but on his travels toward the Ohio area, he decided to plant apple tree nurseries along the way. (He did not personally believe in cloning, so he planted seeds.) When he had a crop of seedlings, he’d sell some of them to other settlers who wanted to get their land faster. The taste of the apples didn’t really matter, since most people turned them into hard cider at that time. Jared says that most of Appleseed’s trees are now gone, but believes there are some still remaining in Ohio.

This is just a taste of what you’ll learn about at the heritage orchard. The first 100 apple trees will be planted this spring, along with a row or two of heritage pears.

For the latest updates, visit www. branchhillfarm.org or follow on Facebook. Branch Hill Farm is located at 307 Applebee Road in Milton Mills.

Stay tuned for your chance to take a bite out of an historic apple!

Publisher’s Note The goal of Along Route 16 is to bring you events and interesting stories taking place along the scenic byways of the area. That commitment remains strong, although admittedly we are living in temporarily challenging times due to the COVID 19 virus. Because many events are postponed or cancelled due to the stay-at-home directive, we have reworked the April issue of Along Route 16.

While this issue will not feature our usual What’s Up section, this month we focus on some interesting things that make the area unique, such as an extended Yesteryear column with stories of people and places you might not know about. Also featured are a reader’s memories of summering in the Ossipee area, Chef Kelly’s recipe column (grilled cheese sandwiches anyone?) and more.

Hopefully, things will be back to normal soon and we will again feature the What’s Up calendar and happenings

around the area as we head into summer.

It has been our privilege to provide New Hampshire’s Route 16 area community with a positive product for a number of years. Together, we’ll work hard to do that for many years to come.

Please consider ordering take-out from area restaurants, shopping at local grocery stores, getting some flowers at a floral shop to perk you up, among other things. We thank you for supporting locally-owned family businesses, especially in these challenging times.

As we move forward in the months to come, we will be strong and of good cheer. And we encourage you, our valued readers, to do the same. Together, we’ll come out of this situation stronger and with a solid understanding of what’s really important.

Warm regards, Dan Smiley Publisher

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Fond Memories of Ossipee Lake

By Stephen Dennis In the 1960s, when I was a kid, we spent portions of every summer at my grandparent’s property, located on Deer Cove Rd. on the shore of Ossipee Lake in NH. Later, in the 1990s, when I was in my 30s, I was often with Nana (my Dad’s mom) in the car. A few miles north of Deer Cove Rd. on Rt. 16, near today’s Pizza Barn, are four or five small cabins along a portion of what was once a stretch of the Bearcamp River.

Nana would often point out a couple of large pine trees. These were majestic pines that each dwarfed the small cabin at its base. “I planted those trees with my father when I was just a little girl of five years old,” she told me. Her eyes glazed over as she revisited the day with her dad, by that time long passed.

“He built those cabins.” Her memory was from 1912.

Just down the road and across Rt. 16 is a cemetery with a three-foot-high stone wall capped by a 12-inch wide flat cement surface. “They must have used a really good cement when they built that wall,” my dad would say, “because it has lasted a really long time. When I was a kid I used to like to walk along the top of that wall.” That would have been in the late 1930s to early 1940s.

There is a house across the intersection from the nearby Tamworth property (more about that later) with a distinctive, wrap-around, three-season porch. The house sits astride a high

Early 1960s Advertisement for Deer Cove Lodge and Camps. point of land and from the porch, the comings and goings of folks through the intersection can be easily observed.

Nana spoke of being on that wraparound porch as a child visiting her aunt. As she told the story, she would lean in close, and in a hushed tone, as if her aunt might still hear her, she would whisper, “I was not fond of her. She was strict and wouldn’t let me play.”

Nana and Gramp had a heated cottage on the shore of Ossipee Lake. Behind Nana and Gramp’s cottage was a cabin, built to accommodate both my dad and his sister, Barbara, along with their families. The layout was one family to each side with a solid partition

between. There were two entrances on the shared cabin, one on the left and one on the right, and there were two paths to the lake, one down either side of Nana and Gramp’s cottage.

As we drove down Deer Cove Rd. and approached the lake, my dad would say, “I wonder who will see the water first?” My sisters and I would pull ourselves up from the back seat to peer sharply between the trees, each of us looking for the telltale glitter and sparkle as the sun reflected off the waves. “I see it! I see it!” we would yell in unison as the road swung to the left following the long sandy beach of Deer Cove. We would drive past Deer Cove Lodge and numerous cottages until we pulled in at the one with the little black metal sign in front with raised gray letters spelling DENNIS. Nana and her sister, Margie, had each inherited half of the original property.

Each had a cottage facing the lake and they shared parking. Deer Cove Rd. followed the shore in front of the cottages, and each cottage had a front

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The shared cabin behind Nana and Gramp’s was a wood framed cabin open to the rafters, with no ceiling. Sound traveled easily, and the center rear of each side opened to a shared hallway leading to six bedrooms. There were three bedrooms on the left and three on the right, duly divided. There was a single door to the outside at the back end of the hallway. This door opened to a well-worn path leading directly to the outhouse; a two-seater complete with a half-moon on the wood-latched door.

Nana and Gramp’s porch The front of Nana and Gramp’s cottage had a three-season porch facing the lake. They had a rectangular table at one end, comfy chairs in the middle, and a couch-like glider.

There was a magazine rack rich with material of interest to all ages. In the summer, Nana and Gramp could be found around 8 am eating breakfast and drinking coffee at the table. From where they sat, the road was just 20 feet out and any people or cars going by were easily observed. Our place was just a few cottages from the end, and traffic was light and passersby few. Just beyond the road was the sandy beach.

We, meaning Nana and Gramp and by extension, my family and our cousins, had a wooden deck on our beach with chairs, a table, and sun umbrella. We had a dock with the barge tied to it.

The all-wood path from the road to the dock was built in an effort to keep the fine white beach sand out of the house.

Beyond the dock, the view was three miles across the lake to a postcard vision of the White Mountains.

Nana was an early bird like me. I would often encounter her at daybreak at the side entry to her kitchen putting food out for the cat. She would tell me

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I would usually sit on the porch and quietly poke around in the comics or magazines they kept in the magazine rack. Sometimes I would meander down to the beach or out back behind the outhouse where there was an annual population explosion of baby toads.

They jumped out of the way, three or four at a time, as you approached. The birds crowed and squirrels rustled at the start of a new day.

Venturing back, I would catch a whiff of Nana’s muffins or pancakes made with blueberries we likely picked the day before. Nana would quietly serve me something from the kitchen before she ducked inside to prepare herself for the day. I would sit around or wander off as people began to stir.

After a while, I ventured back from whatever I was up to and Gramp would be sitting on the porch with one or two of my cousins or sisters. He would be enjoying a cup of coffee, and reading a newspaper. Though we were too young for coffee, as a treat, Gramp would fill a small glass a third full of coffee, twothirds milk, and a little sugar. Not only were we able to consume some of the

forbidden coffee but it tasted good too.

My grandparent’s cottage had a cozy little loft that I used to sleep in on special occasions. I would climb a small ladder to the loft. The door opened to reveal a little room with a low ceiling, a window opposite the door looking out at the lake, an extra small mattress on the floor, along with some old clothes and hats and other things.

In the loft, there was a taxidermy salmon mounted on a decorative plaque. I imagine it once graced the wall downstairs. The location and date caught, length, and weight were inscribed. By the time I discovered it, some of the skin and tail had been chewed off by mice.

When I held the salmon, it wasn’t as heavy as I expected it to be; it was much lighter than it must have been in life. I wondered how they got the skin off the animal so perfectly. The eye looked real to me but I knew it had to be glass. The mouth was open and the tail end was curled out from the board as if the unfortunate fish leaped out of the water and was frozen mid leap.

My Gramp, Ralph Dennis, had presumably caught the fish. He was a cigar smoking engineer who worked in the oil heat industry; one of the

few growth industries during the Depression. In the summer, Gramp conducted regular fishing trips in the barge and the adult men played horseshoes in the late afternoon and into the evening. There was always a tether-ball pole set up on the beach with a rubber ball the size of a tennis ball. We hit the ball using homemade paddles similar to ping pong paddles, only bigger. They were made of one piece of wood carved into the shape of a paddle, including the handle. The big end had many quarter-inch holes drilled geometrically over its surface.

You could give the ball quite a wallop with them. Hardly a day went by that didn’t include tether-ball games.

Trolling Gramp had a home-made fishing boat we called “the Barge”. The barge was a rectangular flat bottomed wooden boat painted a ruddy red, with a well-worn brass rail in the front. About four feet wide by maybe 10 feet the barge was used for every sort of outing on the lake. Because it moved slowly, until

my cousins got a speedboat, most of our lake outings were local and we rarely crossed the lake. We used to fish for salmon, trolling from the barge.

Trolling is a fishing method. We trolled to catch freshwater, landlocked, salmon. When you are trolling you run the motor and cruise slow, about the speed a fish might go, all the while trailing long lines from eight foot rods.

I caught my share of salmon this way.

They had to be a certain size or you had to throw them back. One that was big enough we called a “keeper.”

A trip to go trolling required some planning for bait. The day before a trip, we would set out minnow traps that operated in a manner similar to a lobster trap. Empty them once or twice and we always had plenty of minnows. Dad and Gramp would take me out trolling with them. However, by the time I was age 7, it was usually just Dad and me.

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Page 8 | ALONG ROUTE 16 | April 2020 • Memories Continued from page 7 steer and run the Evinrude; I would sit in the front. Once he felt we were out far enough he would set the motor to the pace needed for trolling. At these slow speeds, he could set the course and if done well, he would only need to make brief, minor, and infrequent adjustments to stay on course. During these intervals, he and I would drop our lines, each line with a single hook driven through the back of a minnow’s skull and out under its chin for bait.

When trolling, the fishing line descends behind the moving boat at a predictable angle. There are little metallic beads accurately spaced along the line. Feeling for the beads allows the angler to calculate the depth of the lure. It took something like 50 feet of line to fish at 30 feet.

Trolling with Dad Fishing from the front of the barge facing forward, my rod was always to the left. Dad sat on the right, next to the motor so he could steer. When running long lines, it is important to keep the lines well separated. We would always fish from opposite sides. On Ossipee Lake you can slowly troll for the better part of a day without going past the same spot twice. Nearly a mile from shore, there was a constant but gentle breeze, and we had little conversation amid the drone of the engine and the water rippling off the hull of the barge.

To hear each other we had to yell. We would sit for hours with rods extended, each of us periodically dragging the line forward a bit in an attempt to make

the dead minnow change speed and move in a way that mimics a live fish.

When you are steering a boat, and have a long run of line behind you, turns have to be made slow and wide. If you attempt to turn a corner too fast you can slacken the lines or worse, allow them to cross and become tangled with each other. Another danger is the possibility that you might get the line caught up in the rotating propeller. One time my father was making a turn that was too sharp. He started yelling at me over the sound of the engine, “Move your rod! Move your rod!” I was startled from my musing with a disaster just moments away. I pulled sharply on my rod and just at that moment, with my dad screaming, “Not that way!” the line caught the propeller as my dad scrambled to shut off the motor.

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Another time, I might have been 7 or 8, I was sitting at the front of the barge as usual and Dad, near the motor, was changing a minnow on the end of my line. He announced that he was; done and I promptly swung the rod out toward the water. The line had slack and wasn’t where I thought it was, the minnow swung toward Dad. In a heroic attempt to avoid disaster I pulled sharply so the hook would not snag him. Sadly, however, my maneuver failed and instead of saving the day, I managed to set the hook deep into the back of my father’s neck with

the minnow’s chin pressed against the wound in the manner of a lamprey. The barb was in good. “Why’d you pull on it?” he demanded. I told the truth, “I was trying to pull it away so it wouldn’t snag you.” Repeating the words, “I’m sorry” while protesting my innocence only made him angrier. Dad cut the line and we rode straight home. He kept reaching up to feel the offending hook and bait. Touching it every so often produced a renewed series of un-muffled exclamations. I sat, nearly out of earshot, in the front of the barge and as far away as possible, sorrier for myself for the injustice of my father’s wrath than for him, despite his wound.

As quickly as the barge would go, Dad rushed us home so he could get some help removing the hook.

Days when we caught little or nothing were more common than good days. Every once in a while, always on a day when we weren’t having much luck, Dad would cunningly position himself over to my side of the barge, steering a wide arc to get my line where he could reach it. When he knew I wouldn’t see what he was up to, he would move his arm over the edge and grab hold of my line giving it a couple of quick tugs, mimicking the action of a fish. “Hey, I got something!” I would yell as I yanked on the line a bit to set the hook, Thankfully, Dad could not contain himself for long before he would start snickering, which progressed into a good-natured laugh at my expense. Due to the poor fishing, our trolling days were winding down. I was probably 8 or 9 the last time I went trolling on Ossipee Lake.

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By Chef Kelly Ross Today’s theme is one of the greatest, and most simple foods known to man.

If someone told me I could choose just one food to live on for the rest of my life, it would be sandwiches. One sandwich most of us grew up with, often because the cost is/was cheap, but also because it is the ultimate comfort food, is the Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Everyone loves a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato soup. It was, and I believe still is, a staple to American childhood.

(I still eat grilled cheese sandwiches quite often.) However, I have made many variations, as I am sure many of you have.

Today I will share some of the best grilled cheese sandwiches ever, many of which were staples on my menu board through my 30+ years of building menus in the restaurants where I was chef. I know the traditional grilled cheese sandwich has American cheese, but the batch I am about to share offers a wide variety of cheeses, and sometimes, cheese on the outside of the bread. It is important to use a superior bread.

I’m going to start with a couple of vegetarian options. I am a diehard carnivore, but I love these sandwiches.

The first is combined with one of my favorite options, which is caramelized onions. Combine that with some great Gruyere cheese, and you have yourself a pretty yummy sandwich.

The caramelizing of the onions takes some time, but other than that, they go together as quick as any

grilled sandwich. This recipe is for 4 sandwiches but is easy to adjust if needed.

Grilled Gruyere with Sweet Onions Sandwich 4 tbsp butter 1-2 tbsp olive oil 1-2 large Vidalia or other sweet onion, thinly sliced crosswise salt & fresh cracked pepper 8 thick slices of wheat or oatmeal bread Dijon mustard ½ lb thin sliced Gruyere cheese 2 half sour pickles, sliced thinly lengthwise In a large skillet, melt 1 tbsp of the butter with the olive oil and pop in the onions over a high heat, stirring

occasionally. After 5 minutes or so, bring to a medium heat, continuing to stir off and on, then cook for about ½ hour. You can always add ¼ cup water if you feel the onions are scorching/ sticking to the pan. Once the onions are caramelized, season with salt and pepper and set aside. If you want to make more for future recipes, which I

always do, refrigerate what you don’t need. They heat up quickly and are as delicious as ever the second and third time around. With the remaining butter, butter 8 slices of bread and put on a work surface, butter side down.

Spread a thin layer of mustard on all slices, then top half the slices with half the Gruyere, the pickle slices, the onions, and then the rest of the cheese, and top with the other slice of bread. I know you know how to grill a grilled cheese, so go at it.

The next one on the vegetarian list does have some similarities to the last as far as the accompanying flavors, but the centerpiece to this great sandwich is eggplant. This can be a love/hate kind of thing, but if you love it, this one will become a huge favorite once you jump in the first time. Again, this is for 4 sandwiches.

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Brush the bread slices with olive oil and sprinkle with the Parmesan cheese and lightly press it into the bread, and then assemble the sandwiches with all the ingredients.**Cheese curds are delicious, small chunks of cheese that haven’t been pressed into shape yet.

The next few recipes were huge sellers when I was a restaurant chef; the next one was the #1 summer seller for about 6-7 years. It doesn’t hurt bringing lobster into the mix, although I have also done this with crabmeat.

The recipe is for 4 sandwiches.

Luscious Lobster Melt 20 oz. mixed lobster salad, very light on the mayo 8 average slices of Havarti cheese 2 ripe avocados, peeled, pitted and sliced 8 slices of homemade oatmeal or wheat bread 1 stick of butter, room temp

Butter the bread slices, flip them, cheese 4 of them using half the cheese, pop lobster evenly over the cheese, lay half of a sliced avocado over the lobster of each slice, top with rest of the cheese, add the other slice of bread and grill these bad boys to perfection.

Truly, this is as great of a summer sandwich as you will ever have.

Rare roast beef makes a killer grilled cheese, especially with some great extras thrown into the mix. There is something special about the marriage of roast beef and horseradish combined with melty cheese that many love. This will get you 4 incredibly delicious sandwiches.

Grilled Roast Beef Extravaganza 8 thick slices of homemade oatmeal or sour dough bread 20 oz rare sliced roast beef 4 tbsp prepared horseradish 4 tsp mayo One 14 oz. can roasted red peppers, or make from 3 fresh roasted red peppers 2 large Vidalia onions, cut in half, sliced and caramelized (look back to the 1st recipe)

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8 thick slices of horseradish cheddar cheese, or maybe an extra sharp cheddar 1 stick of butter, room temp Caramelize the onions as described in the first recipe. If you wish, roast your own peppers, which are like candy to me, and easy to do. Put them on a hot grill, roll them as the sides start to char, and continue to do so until the pepper is blacker than red.

The pepper will become very soft. Set aside to cool, or if in a rush, you can put in a bowl with some ice and let cold water run over them until cold. Drain them and start peeling the char off the peppers. A little black on the skin is ok, but the heavy char should be removed.

Cut or rip them in half and clean the seeds out of them. Slice them into ¼ inch strips. Combine the horseradish with the mayo. It’s time to build. Butter all the bread slices on one side. Lay a butter side down piece of bread on a cool griddle or pan/skillet. Start with a slice of cheese on each sandwich, add 2 ½ oz of beef in a bunched-up manner, ¼ of the peppers, ¼ of the horseradish sauce, the last 2 ½ oz of beef, ¼ of the caramelized onions, another slice of cheese, and the last slice of bread, buttered side up. Build the rest, cook on a medium heat to take a little longer to let the middles blend well within with the heat. Ideally, utilize the warm onions and peppers when you add them to the sandwich. Even if you toss them in the microwave for a few seconds prior, it will be worth your while.

Next is a unique, sweet, and yummy sandwich. This one contains mango chutney and shredded apples to go along with a blend of cheese and a quality sliced Virginia ham. I love to use pumpernickel bread with this fun

recipe. Again, this one is for 4 people.

Grilled Cheese and Ham 8 slices of pumpernickel bread 1 stick butter, room temp ½ cup mango chutney, which you can find in almost any supermarket 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, shredded on a box shredder 4 slices Swiss 4 slices sharp cheddar 1 lb Virginia ham, thinly sliced Start by buttering the 8 slices of bread, putting them butter side down, and spread all 8 slices with the chutney evenly. On 4 of them, lay down the Swiss cheese, evenly distribute the ham between those slices, add the shredded apple, then the cheddar and top with the last slice of bread with the chutney and you are ready to grill them. The apple and chutney make these unique unto themselves.

Above all, use your imagination, think outside the box as I like to say.

You can take so many basic sandwiches and combine with a grilled cheese, and you have yourself an outstanding sandwich. For instance, stuff two slices of bread with cream cheese, cheddar and some sliced jalapeno peppers and you have yourself a Jalapeno Popper Grilled Cheese. Buffalo up a chicken breast and pop that in the middle of a grilled cheese with some crumble bleu cheese. Another favorite of mine is a grilled chicken cordon bleu with ham and Swiss between two slices of bread; even turn a Steak & Cheese sub into a grilled cheese. Put steak, onions, peppers and mushrooms and some pepper jack cheese between 2 pieces of quality bread. Another popular sandwich is a grilled cheese with bacon and some warm/hot macaroni and cheese between the bread. As a kid, it was always the basic grilled cheese, or sometimes a bacon and cheese, ham and cheese, or the great Elvis sandwich, a grilled peanut butter and jelly, or better, a grilled peanut butter and Fluffernutter sandwich, but it’s time to upgrade (although the classics will never go away in my book).

During these crazy times when we are all cooped up in the house, break out some great comfort foods to enjoy. As far as I am concerned, there is nothing more comforting than an outstanding grilled cheese sandwich chock full of extra goodness. If you have any questions or feedback, please touch base at fenwaysox10@gmail.com.

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Yester year

Carving a Path: Early White Mountain Women

By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper “Uncle Daniel says he has seen Aunt Dolly piling logs in the clearing, and she would do as much work as any man. Aunt Dolly says she had to put the baby in the clothes basket and carry it out on the field and tend it there, as she could find time.”

— unknown author of Gorham Mountaineer article, circa 1880s Did it start with Lucy Crawford, or was it going on well before her White Mountain residency? When did women hitch up their long skirts and tie back their hair, determined to climb the tall peaks of the mountains in NH? When did they settle on living in the woods, often working alongside their husbands to carve a life out of the White Mountain wilderness?

It can be sure Native American women resided in northern NH long before outsiders inhabited the area. The towering mountains held a mystique and perhaps religious significance for many groups, but did any native women venture to climb any of the tall peaks? We will never know for sure, but we do know that Lucy Crawford, who lived in the White Mountains in the 1800s, made the trek up Mount Washington, and she was also an innkeeper and an author.

Lucy lived a hardworking life in a remote area and she rose above the problems of the location by becoming an early innkeeper, as well as one of the first women to climb Mount Washington. When we think of climbing the big mountain, we imagine it as it is today, with hiking trails and help never far away. But Lucy climbed it at a time (about 1825) when it was remote and there were no cell phones, other hikers or well-marked hiking trails. One slip in her long skirt and ladylike boots could have spelled disaster.

One could say the Crawfords were just about the first people to work in the tourism industry. They rented rooms to travelers and introduced the public to the wonders of the mountains. Lucy’s husband cut trails in the area, and led parties of tourists up Mount Washington. Stories say Lucy was curious

about the big mountain, and grew tired of hearing the stories of delighted hikers who had experienced the views from the top of Mount Washington.

So, one day, she decided to lace up her boots and make the ascent. It was not an easy one, but she was successful and later went on to write of the family’s experiences in a book called The History of the White Mountains from the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket.

While Lucy Crawford holds the title as one of the earliest and most hardworking White Mountain female settlers, another woman can lay claim to doing a lot for northern NH as well.

Dolly Copp is a charming name, evoking an image of a little girl or perhaps a child’s doll. The story of the real Dolly Copp is that of a woman who lived many years ago in a remote part of New Hampshire. Because Dolly lived in the 1800s in the rural White Mountains, she is perhaps less well known than Lucy Crawford.

Dolly was, however, famous in her own right, and enough so that a campground, the Dolly Copp Campground in the Gorham, NH area was named for her.

Imagine the White Mountains in the early 1800s. The area was remote in the extreme. Roads were crude, there were few people and if you wanted to live in the area, you had to be prepared to live alone for long periods of time, no matter what the season or weather.

It was to this rugged landscape that Hayes Copp (1807-1891) came in the 1820s. Reports of Mr. Copp’s personality seem to point to a perfect match between him and the remote White Mountain area where he settled. According to Behold the White Mountains by Eleanor Early, Hayes Dodiford Copp was “one of those strong, silent men” who worked from morning to night. And hard work was what was required to settle the forest at that time.

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Loggers were moving into the White Mountains as well, as land was cleared to make way for the eventual advent of the Grand Hotels. These men needed a place to stay with an evening meal; the Copp homestead was a perfect establishment to provide a bed and board at a reasonable price.

Dolly entertained travelers for “a shilling all around” – 25 cents for a meal, another 25 for a bed and an additional charge for feeding and boarding a horse.

Saving the money earned by lodging guests, in a few years the Copps had the funds to build a farmstead to replace the simple log cabin. As well as the house, the couple built a barn for their animals.

One cannot help but admire the hardworking Dolly. Today she would likely be a shrewd and successful businesswoman. At that time, she had foresight and a business sense; she found apple seeds in the woods and planted them on the Copp farm. They would spring up into an orchard in time, which add-

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ited. How she came to meet Hayes is not known, but when he proposed, she accepted.

At age 23, Dolly was sliding into spinsterhood and the marriage would have been seen as a natural and good thing. The couple married in Dolly’s father’s home. According to Behold the White Mountains by Eleanor Early, Dolly traveled to her new home on the back of a sturdy horse; the horse was a wedding gift from the Emery family. With her Dolly brought her trousseau and a few household items. Hayes walked beside the horse and did some necessary game hunting on the way home.

It seemed that from the start, the marriage was practical but whether there was deep romance, one can only guess.

Dolly rolled up her sleeves and got to work at her new home, a log cabin that would today seem quite crude.

Hayes was clearing land and acquiring animals for the farm he envisioned running on his property and Dolly worked just as hard.

Marrying Dolly was a good thing for Hayes; she helped clear land, planted crops, tended to the animals and sheared their sheep, carded the wool and spun it into cloth. Added to this, before long, Dolly discovered she was pregnant.

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Birth control was unheard of in those days, and the Copp family grew in those first years to include sons and a daughter.

There are no accounts of the state of the Copp marriage. But on their 50th wedding anniversary, an aging Dolly calmly told her husband, “Hayes, you are well enough. But fifty years is too long for a woman to live with any man.�

It seems Hayes did not fight her on the separation and the couple peacefully divided their savings. They left the homestead, the orchards and gardens to live apart. This was certainly a strange thing to do in an era when divorce was scandalous. On top of this, the work of a lifetime in tilling the soil and creating the homestead was given up as well.

Hayes returned to Maine and Dolly moved in with her married daughter in Auburn, Maine, according to information at www.dollycopp.com. Some say the couple saw each other from time to time; other accounts say they never conversed after the parting, although they split amicably.

An old sepia photograph of the homestead as it appeared many years ago shows boarded up windows and a home in need of paint and repair. However, it holds a country charm, with a dirt road running near the front door and a view of beautiful mountains rising in the distance. Why the Copps left the home, rather than one staying on to farm the land, remains a mystery.

By the early 1900s, hiking and camp-

ing were becoming very popular in the White Mountains. People were setting up tents all over the area and the Copp Spring Public Camp Ground was born, and would later become the Dolly Copp Forest Camp. By 1911, according to information at www.dollycopp. com, the creation of the White Mountain National Forest created public land status to a lot of land in the area. Former farm properties became part of the federal forest preserve; such was the case with the Copp homestead.

The name Dolly Copp was popular, although many had no idea who she was. By 1915 the Dolly Copp Forest Camp was laid out. At one time, there was a movement to sell off some of the land for summer homes, but nothing came of the plan.

By the 1920s, campers were using the property for vacationing and tents were placed randomly. Avid return campers came to the rural campground year after year and were known as “Dolly Coppers.�

During the Depression years, camping did not dwindle in popularity because it was an affordable means of vacationing. Upgrades to the campground over the years expanded services and made the area ever more popular.

Dolly and Hayes likely would have thought the campground a good idea.

Dolly seems to have been pragmatic and something of a businesswoman.

She knew people needed a place to stay when traveling. She provided bed and board for travelers, so she would probably have approved of seeing her land put to good use.

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White Mountain Painters - Capturing Nature’s Beauty Story and photo by Kathi Caldwell-Hopper Artists love beauty. Whether in summer or winter, whatever the location, if an artist responds to nature’s landscapes, he or she has a desire to interpret what they see in a creative medium, be it a drawing, painting or photograph.

Over the years, the sweeping grandeur of the White Mountains of New Hampshire have been interpreted in books, poems and by numerous artists. From the mid-1800s, when hiking and travel to rural areas for summer vacations became fashionable, artists have traversed remote country roads and sometimes crude mountain paths to glimpse and set down their visions of the hills via their chosen artistic medium.

Hundreds of painters have visited the White Mountains, but the best known are those of the “White Mountain School.”

These painters may have been visiting the area as early as the 1820s or 30s, when sketches of the hills began to circulate. Soon, two landscape artists, Thomas Doughty and Thomas Cole, traveled to the northern New Hampshire area.

According to Chronicles of the White Mountains by Frederick Wilkinson Kilbourne, Cole chose the foliagebeautiful autumn of 1828 to visit the area with his friend, Henry Cheeves Pratt. The purpose of the trip was to explore the region. Cole must have found the mountains to his liking and inspiration, because a number of beautiful paintings were the result of the visit.

Cole and Pratt climbed Chocorua, a mountain that was to become a favorite of writers and artists. At that time, trails were few and roads primitive.

The climb was difficult, according to Cole’s writings. So awed was Cole of the view from Chocorua, he wrote that the scene was too “extended and map like for the canvas”, and it was not for sketches, but rather for “thoughts” that he climbed Chocorua.

Cole walked the mountains and wilderness trails of the White Mountains, impressed by the scope and beauty of the area, in particular of the Great Stone Face (Old Man of the Mountains). He was among the first artists to explore and produce paintings of the northern portion of New Hampshire. His paintings of the mountains were exhibited as far away as at the Royal Academy in London, bringing the remote White Mountains to the larger world.

Perhaps Cole’s paintings and writings of the White Mountains prompted the steady trickle of artists who found their way to the inspirational hills. By the 1850s, A. B. Durand, one of the fathers of the American landscape and a Hudson River School (of art) leader, had visited the White Mountains.

According to Chronicles of the White Mountains by Kilbourne, Durand produced many paintings of such areas as North Conway, Campton and Franconia Notch. The paintings have hung in public, as well as private collections.

when photography was in its infancy, Because of the number of artists there was little to remember a White who painted in the White Mountains, Mountain vacation except in memory. some have been forgotten over time. A But when the Selingers arrived on the great source of information about the scene, a guest could purchase paintings White Mountain artists was Benjamin of area scenes that the talented couple Champney, who, in the last years of his had captured on canvas. life published a memoir of the artists Not only were the Selingers artists, of the area. they also were, according to Consuming Champney died at age 90 in 1907. His Views, at the center of the hotel’s social first trip to the White Mountains was and literary life. (This was at the many years earlier, in 1838, according Crawford House, where they served as to Consuming Views: Art and Tourism artists in residence after 1894.) in the White Mountains, 1850-1900, However, other female artists resided a publication of the New Hampshire and sometimes taught classes at more Historical Society. On that early visit, modest hotels and inns in the area.

Champney produced sketches of Another famous artist, Frank H. the scenery. After that, he studied in Shapleigh of Boston, painted in the Europe for a number of years.

White Mountains for about 15 years When he returned to America, beginning in the late 1870s. Among Champney was a professional his well-known paintings are views of A favorite among White Mountain landscape artist. The pull of the Mount Washington. painters was Mount Chocorua. majestic White Mountains was still The Metropolitan Museum of Art strong, and Champney made another was the primary means of getting to received a painting of the White visit to the Saco River/North Conway the natural scenes everyone wanted Mountains, when “Madison and Adams area in 1850 with two other artists. They to capture on paper and canvas. That from Randolph Hill” was donated to lodged with a local resident and made meant not only hiking through miles of the museum in 1891. The painting was friends in the area. It was a successful wilderness, but also camping out in the done by Homer Martin, another artist trip, and the artists stayed for the entire forests and seeking lodgings at a rural who summered in the mountains. summer and into the autumn, hiking farm along the way. (Not all were as Although difficult to imagine from and sketching among the mountains. lucky as the Selingers to serve as artists today’s modern viewpoint, during By the following summer, artists in residence, with an indoor studio and the 1800s the White Mountains still were flocking to the northern New comfortable lodgings.) largely unsettled. While there were Hampshire mountains and when Still, artists continued to come to the hamlets and towns, such as Conway, Champney returned, he found other mountains for a chance to set down trails and crude roads linked mountain artists already living at the Kearsarge their visions of the beauty around communities. The artists who came House. The next few years saw the them. They sensed the spirituality of to the area during those years had number of artists swell, and by 1855 the the area, and created an entire culture to be prepared physically, as well as hills and fields were populated by men and method of painting. emotionally, for life in the wild. Hiking and women sketching and painting all they saw.

After his marriage in the 1850s, woodmansforgefireplace.com Champney acquired a home in the area and made it his permanent summer residence. In his writings, Champney stated that the area was at one time as famous as any European or New York artist’s colony.

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Unusual and Famous in the Mountains Ruth and Jess Shackford, residents of Silver Lake, knew Cummings and his stunningly beautiful wife, the model and photographer Marion Morehouse as well as anyone in the area. The Shackfords were caretakers of Joy Farm, checking on the property during the long winter months, and opening and preparing the home for the poet’s return each spring.

The work involved in caretaking Joy Farm was heavy: in the spring, the Shackfords mowed the lawns, filled grocery lists, registered the car that Cummings used while he was in NH, and thoroughly cleaned the large home before the famous couple arrived for their summer stay.

Joy Farm was a big old farmhouse, Ruth said in an interview with The Laker a number of years ago. At the time, the house was not finished inside.

There was no wallboard on the walls.

Because of that it just wasn’t warm enough for Mr. Cummings to stay there during the winter.

By Kathi Caldwell-Hopper There is the big boulder. There is a beautiful lake and a historic spring water facility and a resort over 100 years old. And there is a world-famous poet who chose the remote area as his summer home.

The Silver Lake/Madison area of NH, at first glance, seems but a blinkand-you-missed-it sort of place. Silver Lake is beautiful and adds greatly to the scenic splendor of the area; summer homes that have been in the same family for generations are the norm, as well as secluded summer camps for boys and girls.

But there is more to the area than meets the eye. For starters, Silver Lake was the summer home of the famous poet E. E. Cummings. The poet loved NH, and although few people are aware of it, he slipped quietly into tiny Silver Lake, a section of Madison, early each summer and stayed at his beloved estate, Joy Farm, until the last of the autumn leaves had fallen.

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Cummings loved the farm and Silver Lake, according to Ruth. Cumming’s parents had owned a cottage on the lake and E. E. grew up spending summers in NH. He was on Silver Lake a lot when he was a child. As an adult, Cummings didn’t like to change the way the property had been, so he didn’t do a lot of modernizing of Joy Farm.

Perhaps that is why he loved Silver Lake and the remote farm so much. In NH, he could accept that the seasons changed, but always things would return to summer, as he had known it as a boy on the lake.

Cummings spent a lot of time painting while he was at Joy Farm.

His favorite view, many said, was of Mount Chocorua. (Indeed, the day he died, Cummings was sitting on the porch of Joy Farm enjoying the view he loved so dearly.)

Originally, Cummings and his wife would take the train to Silver Lake, but after the trains stopped running, they would come as far as Dover, NH by train where they were picked up by a caretaker and driven to their summer home.

While Cummings was enjoying the vacation home he loved, not far away a summer resort was in full swing, offering recreation to visitors. Purity Spring Resort was owned and operated by the Hoyt family of East Madison since the late 1800s. The founder, Edward E. Hoyt, first operated the Hoyt Natural Spring Water Company in the area. He shipped Purity Spring Water to Boston and New York City.

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April 2020 | ALONG ROUTE 16 | Page 15 • Madison Boulder Continued from page 14 In 1911, Hoyt was offering a great place to vacation to guests of his lakeside country inn. Originally named Purity Spring Farms and Cottages, guests from around New England were attracted to the over 1,000 natural acres of fields and forests which surrounded spring-fed Purity Lake. The Hoyt family made land preservation a priority and even during the lean years around World War I when business dropped off, remained focused on keeping the property intact.

By the early 1900s, summer camps for children were becoming popular.

City folk saw the benefits of sending their sons and daughters to the country for a summer of camping experiences.

In 1932, Edward’s son, Milt opened Camp Tohkomeupog for Boys. Soon after, Ellen (Milt’s sister) opened Camp Wampineauk for girls. As well as running the camps, Milt and Ellen assisted their father in operating the inn.

In 1938 skiing was a new sport in the United States. NH was offering ski trains from Boston to the Conway, NH area for skiing. In the Madison area,

a rope tow was installed near Bald Ledge. Occasionally, small groups of guests came to the Inn at Purity Spring during winter weekends to try the new sport of skiing. In 1944, Milt decided to develop Purity Spring Resort into a year-round business. He opened the inn and the camp to guests and hosted ski camps during the school vacation weeks.

Today, the resort is a busy place, offering recreation and a great place for family vacations.

A visit to the Madison area is a must for those who love rocks and boulders.

The town has one more claim to fame and it is quite an unusual one. The Madison Boulder has been around for thousands of years, long before the railroad, the resort or the arrival of the famous poet.

Located off Rt. 113 on Boulder Road, the attraction is an amazing site. The Madison Boulder is thought to be the largest known erratic in New England, and among the largest in the world. The huge granite rocks measures 83 feet in length, 23 feet in height above the ground, and 37 feet in width. It weighs upwards of 5,000 tons and part of the roughly rectangular block is buried,

probably to a depth of 10 to 12 feet.

Historically, the 17-acre Madison Boulder site was acquired by the state in 1946. In 1970, the Madison Boulder was designated a National Natural Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior because the enormous erratic, “is an outstanding illustration of the power of an ice sheet to pluck out very large blocks of fractured bedrock and move them substantial distances.”

Madison Boulder is made of finegrained feldspar and larger quartz crystals that welled up under great pressures from a molten mass deep in the earth over 200 million years ago. Upon cooling, the molten rock hardened. Over the millions of intervening years softer materials on the earth’s surface were removed by erosion from wind and water. Not so with the granite of New Hampshire.

In about 1835, geologists believed that huge boulders like Madison Boulder, which are isolated in their surroundings, had been washed to their present locations by great floods, which were believed to have occurred in ancient times. Due to the lack of deep scientific knowledge that these early geologists made a guess that would

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have made perfect sense at that time.

They knew little to nothing about the ice age and the fact that it once covered so much of the area.

Today, most authorities trace Madison Boulder to the Whitton or White ledges 12 1/2 and four miles respectively, to the northwest. However, a few maintain that the boulder so closely resembles one of the four types of rock that form Mount Willard in Crawford Notch, 24 miles to the northwest, that the ice sheet must have brought it from there. Madison Boulder lies on “glacial drift,” unsorted sediments left by the retreating ice sheet.

It is not unusual to see boulders all over NH left by the ice age. Some of these huge rocks are made of granite and others are composed of different materials. Interestingly the Madison Boulder is of the same texture and composition as those that form the White Mountains.

The 17-acre site upon which the boulder sits changed hands over the years, until in 1946 the Kennett family donated it to the state of NH in honor of J. Crosby Kennett, a local resident of some fame.

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