Barbara Annalee Davis was born in Concord New Hampshire in 1915.
About 1934, she began to design dolls and doll clothing. Her first dolls were marionettes. The doll clothing was sewed onto the poseable doll, and were intended for display. Originally she sold them through the New Hampshire League of Arts and Crafts. In 1941 She married Charles “Chip” Thorndike, the son of a Boston physician. They lived in Meredith New Hampshire. Continue reading
The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
The verses in it say and say:
“The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.”
So sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet can’t help marking all the time
How no one dead will seem to come.
What is it men are shrinking from?
It would be easy to be clever
And tell the stones: Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever.
I think they would believe the lie.
by Robert Frost.
Janice
The first and only turkey ever cooked on the summit of Mt. Washington
was taken up by the lately returned Journalistic party.
It was stuffed, roasted and eaten there with the remains of an excellent pudding which was sent up for a Christmas present by the lady of Professor Hitchcock of Dartmouth College. Mr. Cogswell of the Concord Monitor, one of the journalists, says that life on the mountain is not as monotonous as many suppose. Cooking the meals, taking observations, making reports, writing letters, and consulting scientific works keep all the party busy. Only two meals a day are provided.–Breakfast from eight to nine, and dinner from three to four o’clock. The bill of fare embraces corned beef, fresh beef, lamb, mutton, salt pork, pilot break, griddle cakes, corn-starch, pudding, bake beans, canned peaches and tomatoes, apple sauce, pickles and onions.
The Farmers’ Cabinet, Volume 69, Issue 32, Dated 23 February 1871
Janice
