Frye's Measure Mill, Wilton NH
A stroll through Frye's Measure Mill in Wilton NH.
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The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance has named Frye's Measure Mill to the New Hampshire's 2008 Seven to Save list of most endangered Granite State properties.
Now an historic landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Frye's Measure Mill has been water powered since the 1850's. Some of the Mill's first products - including round and oval pantry boxes, measures, and piggins - are still being produced on much of the original water powered machinery. Examples of Frye's oldest woodenware can be found in museums throughout the country.
Many years ago, at the request of the Canterbury, New Hampshire Shakers, shaker box reproductions were added to our collection. Because of the same dedication to excellence in quality and craftsmanship today, as in the past, Frye boxes remain sought after by collectors across the country.
Striving for the urge for perfection, Frye's Measure Mill follows documented Shaker traditions as outlined by historians Edward and Faith Andrews to painstakingly create Shaker boxes with native maple, hand bent around wooden shaping molds, and fastened with copper tacks.
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We spend the day driving around Wilton New Hampshire located in Hillsborough NH. Our friend Henry A.k.a Keebs is from this great place that he calls his hometown and takes us on a tour of some great locations and shares some stories of his youth living there. Some of the spots we visit are Whiting park where an elephant is buried, Carnival hill which was mentioned in Ripleys believe it or not, Fryes measure Mill, the town hall theatre, West Wilton, Wilton Center, Davisville and many more locations. Hometown history, stories, sites & views.
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Main Street in Wilton, New Hampshire
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My neihborhood
Flooding in Wilton NH April 17, 2007
Sunday's snow had turned to slush and then it rained all night, so I was surprised to see that school was closed on Monday. Then I went outside and saw the small river pouring through the stone wall, down the side of our garage, across our back lawn and then into and through our fire pit.
Our dirt road washed out completely a few houses down the hill from us and around the corner one neighbor almost lost their living room to the torrent.
Roads all over town will need to be repaired or repaved after water completely overwhelmed the normal drainage system and dug deep channels next to them, undermined the blacktop. I don't look forward to next year's tax bill, though state and (supposedly) federal aid is on the way.
Route 101, the main east-west thoroughfare across the state was blocked by a landslide at the town line and even now, nearly two weeks later, all Rt 101 traffic is detouring through downtown Wilton, where a temporary traffic light (the only one in town!) has been set up. It's a mess at the commute hours. The hillside that collapsed is so unstable it may be weeks before it can be repaired.
Yes, that's a fish in the street next to Town Hall.
Shaker religion kept alive in the US
SHOTLIST
Pittsfield, Mass., USA - May 24, 2008
1. Wide shot sign for Hancock Shaker Village
2. Wide shot entrance to village
3. Wide shot round stone barn, which originally stabled 52 milk cows
4. Medium shot lambs outside barn
5. Close shot lambs outside barn
6. Pan right girl in Shaker costume walking
7. Wide shot dormitory
8. Medium shot medicinal herb garden
9. Ellen Spear, president and CEO of the Hancock Shaker Village, talking to visitors
10. Spear entering building
11. Pan left Shaker chairs
12. Close shot seat weaving
13. Close shot arm rest of chair
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Spear, president and CEO of the Hancock Shaker Village
A reason that the furniture and the boxes and virtually every piece of household good that the Shakers made, from a humble dustpan to the most beautiful credenza, was so perfect, is because they believed that work was an important part of their spiritual life, an important part of prayer, if you will. And it was important to devote yourself fully to the making of those household objects, the most humble to the most high and mighty, as it was in religious ceremonies.
15. Medium shot boxes in process
16. Close shot completed boxes
17. Medium shot Steve Griselli making boxes in his workshop
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Griselli, Master Boxmaker of the Hancock Shaker Village
The wooden box business was very important in colonial America, before the mass production of sheet metal, before plastic of course. Household dry goods were in a wooden box of some kind. What the old Shakers did, they just made a better wooden box, for an existing marketplace.
19. Close shot Griselli lifts wooden panel out of metal boiling box
20. Close shot Griselli winds wood around oval mold
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Griselli, Master Boxmaker of the Hancock Shaker Village
I had been a cabinetmaker for many years, doing furniture. But something about the boxes, I don't know what it is - but it became a passion to learn as much as I possibly could about this craft. I wanted to be, I wanted to be a technical virtuoso at this business. I wanted to know everything I could find out about this. And I'm not finished yet, but I'm on the way.
22. Medium shot boxes inside built-in cabinet
23. Medium shot coat rack, another classic Shaker element
24. Wide shot room with bowls and glassware
25. Tilt down herb labels
26. Tilt down bowls of dried beans and spices
27. Pan right bowls
28. Medium shot family making cookies with costumed workers
29. Close shot cream mixer
30. Medium shot mother and child mixing cream to make butter
31. Close shot boy smiling
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Agathe Naton, visitor, standing with husband Olivier
It's always interesting to learn about American culture and find something that's 200 years old. And it's also very nice, very peaceful, it's very good for the children, because they can experience how people lived at the time.
33. Medium shot desk
34. Pan left bedroom
35. Wide shot women's coats
36. Close shot dresser
37. Tilt up banister
38. Medium shot top floor with visitors
39. Medium shot entrance to Shaker Workshops furniture store
40. Tilt down Louise MacGuire, retail manager for Shaker Workshops
41. Medium shot MacGuire talking on the phone
42. SOUNDBITE ( English) MacGuire
I guess the basic thing that you can say about Shaker design is that it is timeless. It goes with antiques, it stands on its own, it can be mixed with contemporary pieces and it always looks great.
43. Pan right furniture showroom
44. Medium shot rolls of ribbon for chair seats
45. Close shot grandfather clock
LEADIN
The Shaker religion has its roots in the Quaker movement in mid seventeenth century England.
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Temple New Hampshire (NH) Real Estate Tour
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Temple, New Hampshire was originally known as Peterborough Slip when first granted in 1750. Temple was incorporated in 1768 in honor of John Temple, lieutenant governor under John Wentworth. John Temple was also the son-in-law to James Bowdoin, for whom Bowdoin College is named.
Temple was home to the Temple Glass Works, founded in 1780. The short life of the business makes Temple glass rare and sought after today.
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