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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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eir arms. After a little exer-cising on the old common and performingthe then popular exploit of whipping thesnake, they briskly filed off up the road,by the foot of the Kidder Mountain andthrough the Spafford Gap, towards Peter-borough, to the tune of Over the Hillsand Far Away. In one of the chapters which followwe read that at the March meeting in1801 the Rev. Mr. Farrar was re-quested to read Washingtons Fare-well Address from the pulpit on thenext Sunday, and it was voted toestablish it as a custom in future, to giving an interesting report of them-selves up to date. The centennial celebration was oneof the red letter days in the history ofthe old town. It would be interestingto quote many passages from the elo-quent address of Dr. Augustus A.Gould, the orator of the day. I mustcontent myself, however, with quot-ing a single one: It is now somewhat more than onehundred years since our ancestors pene-trated into the then wilderness and beganto clear the region where we are now as-
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THE BARR MANSION. have it read the Sunday succeedingthe twenty-second of February. Thehistorian observes that it does not ap-pear how long this custom was main-tained. An interesting contribution to thehistory of New Englands part inopening the great West is the recordof how certain New Ipswich citizensled a colony out to Iowa, selecting atownship now called Denmark in thatnew state, and rearing a church andschool as the corner stones of theirtown. At the time of the centennialcelebration in 1850 the citizens ofthis daughter town sent back a letter sembled; and we are met to celebrate thatevent. Some of us have made our habita-tion here since the day of our birth; andin quietude and simplicity, remote fromthe whirlwind of metropolitan bustle, havebeen content to live in comparative retire-ment and to move within a very limitedsphere. Such have made a wise choice.Others of us, more restless and ambitious,have overleaped these mountain barriersin search of fame, fortune and happinessin

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