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Chichester NH News

May 26, 2010

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Jessica Palmer, a resident of Chichester, was among nearly 500 students from Champlain College who received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Champlain College President David F. Finney during the College’s 132nd Commencement held May 8, in Burlington, Vt. Palmer received a BS degree in Applied Psychology.
Congratulations, Jessica!




Get your Pittsfield Town-Wide Yard Sale maps at St. Stephen’s Church and get the first look at our great yard sale items. We’ll also be offering baked goods, Joe’s famous hot dogs, George’s now-famous pulled pork sandwiches, and chili. Begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 5th, at the Church at 50 Main Street. See you there.




Can you give an hour or less of your time to remember our fallen soldiers? On Sunday, May 30, at 2 p.m. Chichester Grange will hold a brief observance of Memorial Day at the Veteran’s Memorial next to the Town Hall. Jim Towle of the Historical Society will share information about a Civil War Veteran from Chichester. Cub Scouts will lead the Pledge of Allegiance and place a wreath in front of the Veteran’s Memorial. The observance will be held rain or shine.




Please contact Jaan Luikmil at 798-4987 if you want to reserve a space at Carpenter Park on Old Home Day, August 21, for informational or vending purposes. By June 19th, he would like to have a firm idea of whom to expect.
 



The theme for this year’s Old Home Day is “Halloween in August,” Have your costumes ready for the parade and a costume judging at Carpenter Park as well.
 



Again this year there will be a Yard Sale under the tent at Old Home Day to help defray expenses of future Old Home Days. As you hold your own yard sales or clean out your barn and attic, set aside some clean, usable items to donate. Contact Stacy Luikmil at 798-4987 to drop off items or pick-ups can be arranged.




Chichester Grange will meet on Wednesday, June 2, upstairs in the Grange Hall. A supper at 6 p.m. will precede the meeting.



 

Chichester Town Library News


On Friday night, May 7th, the Chichester Town Library had an artists reception for the children in town who are displaying their art during the month of May. The children participated in an art program at their school hosted by the Currier Museum of Art. The title of the program was Art From Art. This is a creative arts program consisting of four weeks of multi-media art lessons focusing on the Currier Museum of  art’s collection, taught by our own local artist Krysti Nyhan. The children copied works from Winslow Homer, George Rodrique, Pablo Picaso, Paul Klee and others.

 

But the highlight of the evening was our favorite clown, Rebos, who showed up to entertained us by making animals and object with his balloons. Everyone had a wonderful time. Rebos was very funny.


This is one of the best shows we have had at the library. Please drop in and see it, notice the originality of the students work, even though they were focusing on the same painting.

 


 

Book Group


The Chichester Town Library is starting a Book Group.  The first book we are reading is Matterhorn, a novel about the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes.  It has been called a masterpiece by Newsweek magazine.  Author Doug Stanton calls it, “Masterful and thrilling. Marlantes conjures grace out of suffering, honour from despair, sense out of nonsense.  The men and women of this story have long deserved a homecoming and we needed to hear their true story.  Marlantes has written a timeless work of literary fiction."

 

We are looking for Vietnam or other veterans who would like to tell their stories.  We would also like to invite anyone to attend and join in the discussion. It is not necessary to read or finish the book. You may come and join the discussion or read another book on the Vietnam War and come and share your insights.


Local resident Jim Pappas, who himself is a Vietnam vet, will be leading the discussion.  The meeting will be at the Chichester Town Library on Thursday, July 15th at 7:00. The library is able to purchase the book for you at a discounted price of about $15. Please call to sign up, to request a copy, or if you have any questions at 798-5613.

 


 

Out of Your Attic Thrift Shop News
Submitted by Carol Hendee


With the Yard Sale season upon us, just a few reminders regarding the Attic. We will gladly accept donations from items left over from yard sales. However, they must be brought to the Attic when it is open. We cannot have bags left outside when we are closed. They could be damaged by rain or wind and we do not have permission to have items outside the building. New items are put out every time we are open and the yard sale items will boost the ever-changing inventory. The sooner you come in and buy, the sooner we have room for new items on the shelves. You may want to stop by the week of June 8th and see what has come in! We are open Tues., Wed. & Thurs. 8-4 and Sat. 10-4 at 345 Suncook Valley Hgwy, Chichester. Or call 435-9339 for any info you may want regarding store policy.

 


 

Chichester Grange


Chichester Grange met at the Grange Hall on Wednesday, May 19, for Family and Community Night. Norma Neary of the State Grange Family and Community Committee was present for the evening. Kevin Belval was the winner in the baking contest.


Wildlife sightings included several woodchucks. One was seen in a yard on Route 4 near Chuckster’s. Do you suppose it could have been Chuckster himself?


The West/Boisvert/Belval group spread mulch at Memorial Park. Thank you to the Chichester Road Agent who provided mulch from roadside chipping and delivered it in piles for easier spreading. The flower tubs will soon be planted by Barbara Frangione.


Mary West presented the Family & Community Night program. Since this year’s baking contest was fruit squares, the theme of the program was “Squares.”  Members learned about the mathematical definition of a square, Times Square, and pocket squares. Members sang a song about squares to the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” and played a game of living tic tac toe. The program ended with a humorous skit about the uses of a bandana/banana by Anne Boisvert and Kevin Belval.


After the meeting members sampled the fruit squares made for the baking contest.


The next meeting will be June 3. The evening will begin with a supper at six p.m.

 


 

Chichester History
Vanishing Breed of Town Officials
By Walter Sanborn


The next couple of articles will be about the vanishing town officials and their positions once required by law.


By the late 1700’s land was cleared and domestic animals were acquired by the farms being established on the land.  A typical farm was divided by fences into fields for growing crops and hay, pasture for livestock, often an apple orchard and wood lots.  Neighboring farms were similarly separated by fences and stonewalls.


In 1791 the New Hampshire General Court passed “An Act  relative to common fields and regulating fences”.  This act required all towns in the State to elect a Fence Viewer at their annual town meetings.  The Fence Viewer was more of a judge than a policeman.  His job was to settle disputes between owners of adjoining fields as to locating property boundaries, to allocate costs for building and maintaining fences and to determine that each fence served the purpose for which it was built.  Boundary lines were not always clearly delineated in deeds and markers could have disappeared either by natural causes or human acts.


Who should pay the greater share of building and maintaining the fence; the man who wanted to keep the other fellow’s cattle out of his fields, or the owner of the cattle?  What if one owner wanted a rail fence and the other a stonewall?  The Fence Viewer earned four shillings a day and later a dollar in arriving at his decision.


In 1794 Chichester elected Lieutenant John Hilyard and Jonathan Leavitt as Fence Viewers for the town.  There are records in the clerk’s minutes of where the Fence Viewers settled differences between neighboring owners.


One of Robert Frost’s line of poetry states, “Good fences make good neighbors.”


The next town official I want to list now vanished is the Hog Reeve.  Four months after the act regulating fences was passed, it was followed by “An Act regulating swine.”  This act required all towns to elect one or more Hog Reeves at every town meeting.  The pig or hog was the basic supply of meat and cooking fat for the home and no part of the hog was wasted.  The pig today is a cute animal, rather docile and lazy.  In the early days he was considered as much a villain as a source of meat.


Hogs are notorious forages and are no respecter of boundary lines of fences. They thrive on forest beechnuts, acorns as well as in cultivated grain fields and vegetable gardens and root around for food.  The law demanded that all pigs not securely enclosed be ringed and yoked at all times.  The ring in the nose was to prevent rooting and the yoke to deter escape under the fence.


The law also prohibited hogs from traveling by public highway from one source of food to another during the growing season, April 1 to October 31.  It was the Hog Reeve’s job to impound all straying hogs during these months; also, he had to ring and yoke those found at any time without these encumbrances.  He received a fee for every hog impounded and for each ring and yoke applied.  He was paid by the owner, if known, or from sale of the hog by the pound keeper.


According to town records Nathaniel Punaras was elected as the Hog Reeves for the town of Chichester in 1794 and others in following years.


To be continued.

 


 

Pembroke Academy Senior Receives LGC Scholarship

Pembroke Academy senior Katherine Stiles has been awarded a $750 scholarship from New Hampshire Local Government Center (LGC) as part of its annual John B. Andrews Scholarship Program. She the daughter of Pamela Stiles, principal at Chichester Central School.


The LGC scholarships are funded with proceeds from LGC’s Annual Fall Classic Golf Tournament and specifically benefit qualifying children of New Hampshire municipal, school, county or village district employees and officials of local government units that are participants in LGC services.


Seventy-nine scholarship applications, representing 47 New Hampshire high schools, were received this past winter for review by LGC board members who represent schools and municipalities throughout the state. Applicants were judged on academic achievement, extracurricular school activities, community service and letters of reference along with and a two-page essay titled How the Economy has Impacted the Budget and Services of My Community or School District.


“The accomplishments of this year’s talented scholarship awardees are extremely impressive,” said LGC’s Interim Executive Director Maura Carroll. “The Local Government Center’s employees and board members are proud that future generations of local leaders can benefit from higher education with assistance from our scholarship program,” she added.


More than $48,000 in higher education awards has been given to high school seniors by LGC’s scholarship program since its inception in 2005.

 


 


 

 











 
 

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