Reminder
The Cable Franchise Contract Committee is now meeting to renegotiate the
Comcast contract. If you have any comments, concerns or suggestions
regarding the new contract, please contact Lisa Stevens at the Town Hall.
Another Great Benefit Italian Dinner sponsored by the American
Legion Post 112, Short Falls Road, Epsom, NH, will be held Saturday,
June 20, 2009, from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Donation: Adults, $7.00; Children, 6-12, $3.00; Under 6 free.
Bring
your appetite!
The menu will consist of Spaghetti, lasagna, salad, bread, beverage and
dessert.
Door prizes and 50/50 raffle will be held.
All Proceeds to benefit Post 112 Community Activities.
Jillian Andrews, daughter of Jeff and Gloria Andrews of
Chichester, graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a
Master of Arts in Teaching degree with a concentration in Secondary
Education. Jillian will be teaching 7th grade social studies in the
fall at R. J. Grey Junior High in Acton, MA.
The Chichester Library now has the 2009 Great Stone Face Books,
which are on Chichester Central School’s summer reading list.
We also have the 2009-2010 Isinglass Award Books, which are on the
Pembroke Academy summer reading list. Come in and get started on
your summer reading requirements.
Happy Birthday this week to Florence White on June 18, Allison
McIntosh on June 19, Marlene Hammond on June 21, Emma Stone on June
22, and Tara Gelinas on June 23.
Happy Anniversary to
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Millette on June 22.
Now that the book sales have started at the Chichester Library,
there is a continued need for books, videos and audios. Many
of the donated books are actually added to our library collection
thus keeping the library budget down each year. This year the
library did have to cut its audio and DVD budget. If you have
audios or DVDs that you do not watch or listen to anymore maybe you
could donate them to your library so others can enjoy them. We
appreciate all the support the library has received from our patrons
and the town over the years. We hope the library has brought
you enjoyment and hopefully some new friends.
The next meeting of the Old Home Day Committee will be on
Wednesday, June 24, at 7 p.m. at the Fire Station.
The Old Home Day Committee would like to thank all those who
participated in their Yard Sale on June 6th. It went so well, that
they are seriously considering holding another one later this
summer.
The Chichester Youth Association will host Challenger Sports
British Soccer Camp the week of August 3-7, 2009 at the Carpenter
Park Soccer Fields in Chichester. The camp will run Monday through
Friday, and each child is coached by a member of challenger’s
British coaching staff flown to the USA exclusively to work on these
programs. Camp is open to players between the ages of 4 and 18.
Check out our website for more information,
www.ChichesterYouth.com.
If you are willing to bake for dessert at Old Home Day (August 15), please
contact JoAnn Luikmil at 798-5483.
Again this year there will be Flea Market tent at Old Home Day
on August 15. If you have clean, usable items you are able to
donate, contact Stacey Luikmil at 798-4987.
Chichester Historical Society
Roads Off Horse Corner Road
By Walter
Sanborn
The picture accompanying this article is the Aaron Mason farm and the two
Mason sisters, Lizzie and Hannah. Take note of the barn which will be
mentioned in the next story.
To record the history of roads in Chichester, I will continue by
relating to roads running off of Horse Corner Road. Starting at Horse
Corner Road at the junction of the Dover Road at the traffic lights and
going south the first road on the right is the Towle Road. This road
was built sometime in the middle 1800’s to serve the two farms of Asa Hoitt
and Joshua Towle whose farm was at the end of the road.
In 1850 Article
11 in the town warrant was to see if the town will vote to build a road from
a point near the dwelling house of Joshua Towle in said town on the Range
Way, by the dwelling house of Aaron Mason to the Turnpike Road so called
which is now the Dover Road. This article was voted favorable and the
road was built.
The Aaron Mason dwelling was about half way between the
Joshua Towle farm and the end of the road at the Turnpike.
Now I could
stop here in writing on the history of the Towle Road but there is more.
Five generations of Towles lived on this Towle farm with Jim and Gale Towle
being the last generation.
There are a couple of stories related to the
Towle and Mason families which I think is worth including in this history.
These were told to Jim Towle by his father Edgar Towle who lived on the farm
as a boy.
Aaron Mason had two daughters who were spinsters and never
married and lived alone on the Mason farm after their father Aaron died.
This is one of the stories that Edgar told his son James and is entitled
“Hannah.”
After Hannah’s sister Lizzie died in 1911, Hannah took to
sleeping on the floor. Clara Towle sent two of her children, Blanche
and Edgar, down the back road every morning to check on Hannah. Edgar
said that he would peek in the window and see her on the floor, but when
they knocked on the door she’d get up and get in the bed. When they
left she would lay back down on the floor. One day they checked and
she didn’t get up! They ran for home to get their mother. Hannah
had passed away where it was most comfortable for her! Hannah died,
March 24, 1914, at the age of 87. (Edgar was 7 years old at the time)
I will continue with the second story in my next article as I finish the
history of the Towle and Mason roads.
