##VIDEO ID:5lq_8fk0FQk## hear make sure everybody can hear me okay I just want to thank everybody for coming to our meeting today uh right now uh my schedule from the secretary she says we have 34 people here today which is the most we're ever had in my 11th year of going and people ask me when are you going to stop I don't ask people I don't know and I'm not looking forward to it either it's too much fun to do and it's very easily for me to do them because I I know enough of people and I can get along with people so it's not hard for me to find speakers it's uh sometimes it's difficult to have enough mons in to get them all on so anyway so sometimes I have to switch the the speak is around but eventually we'll get there I know Kathy L was here she's been on three times but I had a switch her off so she hasn't been a speaker but Kathy you will be speaker or shot and I want to say hello to our CL County Sheriff Joe yes so who H do we have here raise your hand we have a over here I see her wants a while at St shop that's going to end I guess pretty soon so anyway uh we'll get go with the meeting but thank you very much for everyone coming to uh this uh meeting we have the speakers very speakers we have for September in October and November uh the speaker that can you still hear me all right the speaker that we have is December uh we're going to have the reg needed Christmas which has been in many years we will continue to have so the only speakers are going to have for Christmas party will be ourselves so we'll be speaking and talking that that uh a meeting in December uh will be for just what we normally have won't be for a general speaker uh before we start with our speaker this morning with Fred car and I want to let you know uh speaker that for the September October November people September 10th that's meeting date uh you'll notice that our meeting for that month will be on on September 10th there are two reasons for that one one is that the regular meeting date would be September 3rd and when you get to a holiday weekend uh you don't really get too many people because they're on vacation or they're coming back from where they are so September 3D will not be a good uh date to have a meeting in September the other reason would be that I'm not going to be around no we be my wife and I will be up in uh Lincoln New Hampshire and we'll be coming home uh uh the following week and the reason we got screwed up on that is someone that uh changed our vacation by four weeks we normally go up through the first part of August and uh my wife saw the change on her cell phone so all plac it I don't look at the cell phone I I don't use it in my room so anyway she started the week was changed to August the the last week in August which goes into the holiday and I don't like that because I don't like driving up to Lincoln from here on that Labor Day weekend because the traveling on that Friday is wicked so I'm suggesting we go up on Thursday and stay one night somewhere then go over there after I don't know but anyway so that's the the reason for the changes uh in August oh excuse me Ken Ken we have a little surprise that we'd like to do now for you if that's okay we have a little surprise for you you do yes can we do do you want to do an ask have sherff join me okay so I want to thank Joe for letting me know all about this the are my so we're here to present excitation to Ken from the con of Massachusetts the health of Representatives be hereby known to all the Massachusetts Heth Representatives offer sincer congratulations to Ken Vinton in recogition of your many years of leadership and eacy for the public safety and senior citizens rights with Halifax Triad and in celebration of your 9th birthday the entire and expresses the hope for Future Good Fortune and continued success in all your endeavors it's given today the 6th day is August and I know your birthday is the 11th yes sign of the Speaker of the House Ron Mariano and myself happy manra happy birthday well thank you very much Kath you are so welcome and we will having you for us and I look forward getting a bunch of questions ready for well that's what I like excellent well thank you all for inviting me and I want to thank Jo it it's Joe's birthday August I know can you just say happy birthday to Joe as well happyday people to aggravate so I'll be here another year we'll be waiting for your party yeah well I thank you all for inviting me making sure that the da and I both had invites unfortunately now the da I was with him yesterday he is off to uh I think he's Washington DC the national uh black prosecutors Association so he is he is poised uh to take over the Reigns as the president of the national District Attorneys Association yeah so that that's a big deal and I think that uh it's going to make it U you know those meetings that we get to do have with with Tim are going to be very special for us because he's going to spend a lot of time on the road a lot of time in Washington DC and hopefully you know he's going to get some good work done with the national da as I know it's a big concern to all of us so we appreciate that and hopefully the ladies will carry back to Tim that we uh we miss them and uh you know we're we'll keep them in our prayers and uh hopefully things go well so I did I don't have a proclamation but I did bring something that is perhaps a bit more practical I brought a hat and as I grabb the hat and I ran out uh door this morning I it reminded me I get him home with the tag on so he knows it's room uh but secondly you know I just get back from vacation with Mom and Dad both my parents are still with us and we all went on vacation and we did the Tennessee River and we did um we did uh a lot of you know not the Mississippi but we did the Tennessee and we did the h River so we were in a lot of those Southern States down there and it ended up in Nashville and if people know Nashville the big cancer hospital down there was built by none other than M Pearl who used to keep her ass might remember her yeah so going to keep that on there in honor of M Pearl even will ask you to wear that with a t on but happy birthday this guy here I think a lot of CH the county sheriff a lot of times I say to Joe I want you to do something that I want you to do I want you to fill that jail up with people you know cells I don't know why there so many empty cells so much going out maybe maybe that's a great subject for us to cover I'll come back to the steer and I'll go over the population numbers and you know just how things are going on the correctional side of there've been a lot of challenges on the legislative side I do want to especially thank Kathleen because she really she's so good about calling and asking what our position is in law enforcement on these bills and God bless her she votes the right way so I appreciate that I appreciate her and everything she's done and uh maybe come back together and talk about some of these things well it's good to see you you know I miss Tim not being both of you are using together when doing things and both of you are great guys you and Tim just perfect and I told you and Tim you're are and come to our meetings anytime you don't have to be a speaker just come when you have time and be S you you deserve it you do I'm a better listener than speaker so well right find my spot where I stop here microphone how about now is okay okay it's going to say we'll continue with the speakers that will be coming up uh the October me October meeting will be on the first of the month and our speaker for the month will be a Mr Blake denus will be speaker about the magic of butterflies this person was doing a great uh section over in uh Kingston just a while ago and I got a hold with me he said that he'd be glad to do the Halifax Triad subject so he will be here on um July exuse me October 1st so that will be a good one to have you will be discussing the various butterflies that live in P County the month of November which will be on the 5th I hope to have uh the Halifax fire department put on a presentation because there a couple of things that we' like to have uh to go it in which would be probably with some of the paramedics and then uh we also want to have uh the fire department do a presentation which might have to be done at the station out back and that's the people asking uh to get uh how do you work these fire extinguishes when you have to have them done quickly what's the first thing you do with so I asked the chief if we could have that done uh one time we had that years ago and uh it was done in the back of the fire station they had the fire going out there and you would get this fire extinguisher and you show you how to work but actually put out a fire so we'll see how that goes I just oh that's okay I just wanted to let you know that November 5th is national election day and that you might want to think about that with the scheduling of that meeting which one which one was that the presidential election November 5th November 5th I just wanted you to know now so that you can plan see I haven't seen anything yet uh out on the so it's the Voting is going to be the dates or anything yet was it's kind of Burly for yeah it's election day but if there is a problem and we have to change it we can do that very EAS right now I want to to have one of our members I've been a member of tribe for many many uh mons and it's Fred caran uh Fred is uh going to speak today uh he's been a uh little boy up in New Hampshire for many many years so I asked him if he would like to do a special on how is it like living in New Hampshire around Mount Washington up there there a little boy and he said I can do it so he has pictures all around so Fred you want to thank you very much I think you all can hear me can you is that a problem good hear you okay good as a little boy growing up in a white mountain and I was a little boy then maybe 8 years old now this is back in the 1930s and 40s so I've got some stories to tell about the white kns in Northern New Hampshire up in what they called Kos in New Hampshire and we'll start first off this top picture on the left hand side see that white cat that picture was taken in September we're going to go across the right that picture was taken in May and this is not unusual up there in white but you can see the white gaps for 8 months out of the year it's a short sign trust me but at any rate it's a beautiful spot I grew up in a little town called Randolph New Hampshire which is on route two up in Coos County 200 mil north of here in that little three room house with by people Mom Dad my brother and my sister picture of that house right now is a garage because I never had a picture of the house we left there too early it was only 10 they left that house but at any rate that house was turned into a garage at one of my relatives on the Pascal side and her greatest joy after that house was moved down to the Lower Road her greatest joy was telling the other people in town I got the only garage with wallpaper on the wall and she would stri so there it is next to the pasal house and when you get up here after I get done talking there are a little notations under each picture and you'll see the difference in size of that old building which was probably about 20 by 24 and had three rooms living room across the front with the front door you walked to your right when you went in you went into the kitchen you went to the back you walked to the back of the kitchen there's the back door take a Shar left and that's the only bedroom in the house where my mom and dad and my baby sister slept my brother and I slept on a pull out couch in the Liv room now of course sleeping on a pull out couch in the Liv do not bother our e at all because what everybody went to bed we didn't have TV there no power what else you're going to do you go to bed early you get up early and that's the way of life out in the country but what did we have even though we didn't have running water no electricity the ouse was 75 ft up towards the woods the water came from a spring which was probably 150 ft back up in the woods what did we have that picture right there when you stepped out on the front porch not porch you didn't even have a porch steep down on the front steps of our house every day going to take the school or whatever there was the view of the presidential Ranch you get to see that beauty every day I went to school in Randolph which is only a little town of about 300 people today still about 300 that one room Schoolhouse had all grades one teacher same teacher my father had and when she retired a couple years after I left that school the I went the first grade yet couple years later they had closed that school she had been there 33 years with all those grades teaching all of those children in some cases parents of some of our students and children of others almost the grandchildren any let me tell you about a little incident that you wouldn't hear about today we were sitting just as you're sitting here only the little children were in the front of the room black board was there teachers was addressing ons and then the RS of students up to the oldest children and there was another set of black boards across the backround so the teacher would start giving us four I was four and a half when I started in first grade actually 4 and 34 years old so I was young there was no kindergarten so I was in first grade sitting right in the first gr teacher had given us our assignment after she gave us a little lesson maybe I was calling who knows what I was doing but there was a standing rule when the teachers in the back of the room are behind you teaching you do not turn around and be nosy and see what's going on okay that's not proper she's teaching the fourth grade the fifth grade the eighth grade whatever all of a sudden here I sit call the water and there's a commotion in the back of the room and I turn just in time to see this teacher grab this bigger student who was actually bigger than she was grabbed him by the shoulder spun him around took the heel of her hand behind his head and stuck his nose into that black board she's running back around the blood was reaching down off of his nose and he sunk to the floor and she said that his two brothers who were standing there pick up Johnny take him out and wash him up and get him back here in the class that was the end of that and you know what I think I was probably fourth or fifth all was fourth grade before I realized that you don't fost to teach you because you could be part of the Blackboard different world different time we know those things don't happen today we don't think they do but remembering now that this one teacher how many students of all different ages and she had to be the authority because was there a principal in that one room school question was there a superintendent no he was a roolling superintendent you might stop by once a month and say Hi how are you what's my lunch but anyway and that school had an ouse there was a pump in the kitchen area so you could pump water in there but there was no electricity so we living with the basics now up here on the top that black and white photo what's the bearing there that is a 3T log that means as it laid there it's this High how did it get there that's me at 7: my sister at 5 and 1/2 sitting up on top of that bot the reason I put that up there was because back then we talking 19 early 1940s you didn't have a chainsaw you didn't have a crane to pick up that tree and put it up on the truck what did you have you had what they call a Twan Crosscut saw the Crosscut saw was about the depth of my hand with teeth in it 6 ft long a handle on both ends to cut that into 12 or 8T or 10t logs you had to have two men each grabbed the handle this guy pushed over and that guy pulled and then you pull back and he pushed until you got down to that longw but now realized how did that tree get on the ground had to come the same way so now these men had to bend over and do this potion full motion until they got through that 3-ft base this is not a 5 minute tree drop I can tell you right now and that was a big piece of lumber my father had milled out so we could add an extension on the house that's the reason for that com also you'll notice the Attie of the coveralls this was a winter picture now even though it was a small town right there in Rando our cabins and that's the Jeff and view cabs because it could see je and across the road was m Washington cabins and those cabins were there back in the thirs they been renovated it's now a small motel and here's a little town with three 300 people and they got two sets of cabins in a motel does that tell you that tourism is one of the main businesses up there and then the next picture is in jeon which is the next town over and that is the Water Wheel restaurant and maple sugar house if you go up there and jeon and I'm sure there's people in this room that have been to Santa's village in Jefferson New Hampshire and I see the head waiting this little kid remember s's Village when it wasn't there and in fact the guy that did it went to my grandfather forgan and said to him and his name was Fred Fred how would you like to join me in an adventure he said what kind of Adventure my grandfather was Road supervisor time R out he had all kinds of construction equipment along with his sons he said I'm thinking of building of Santa's Village there in Jefferson and I need to have part of that land excavated trees cut all of this stuff arrested to get that noise and he walked away from that deal it wouldn't be standing here today I'd be out there watching Santa Claus the other thing with sanded Village and you've been there and here's the parking lot in front of in front of sard Village there's another parking lot across the road that parking lot when I was 11 years old my brother and I is now let's see 35 46 this was just at the end of World War II we were picking beans for the government out of what used to be that what is now that parking lot from s's Village and then could PID so much for bushing I don't even know if I got through a bush at that age we didn't make much money I know that we were picking beans that were sold for government food programs you don't have many ofday be from there and this picture right here biggest picture right there you'll see the caption down below that it says how many of these utensils can you identify that's on the wall of that white of that Water Wheel restaurant and I took that picture it's just kind of interesting take a look at it and look at the different things that are there and see if you can identify and each one of those the next picture great for moose you can save your life these signs are all over Coos County and why because in the Last 5 Years there's been an average of 68 collisions between Ms and vehicles an average of 68 collisions every year Last 5 Years so when you see one of those signs if you're up there you're going s Village or whatever they going to do be very very care because the moov are still up and if you have one of them land on the hood of your car or your pickup truck let's hope it's just the Moose because for many of these accidents KN the driver mov this little sign down here is in gorm New Hampshire now gorm New Hampshire is not very far if you keep going down rout two you'll end up in gor but from gorm back to Randolph back to Jefferson back to Lancaster that's a 23 M trip everything you're seeing here and everything I'm talking about today happened in that 23 miles now realizing I make sure I got my figures here for you there's 21 2200 people in living going 300 in Randol 1100 in Jefferson 2400 in lest that's a total of 6,000 people in that 23 M stretch 6,000 ft that's like 23 Mi that's like going from here Bost how St can put that into the perspective for the fact we call our old time Halifax as 7700 people so put that up against 6,000 over that 23 you've got towns up there where per square mile is 22 21 people live per square mile and get to see your neighbors very often you certainly not out there walking to you and when you go to the grocery store 15 18 miles if you live in some of these smaller towns Lancaster had a grocer had grocery stores G and grocery stores on both end the two towns in the middle you're lucky if you had a gas station in each of those where you run out of gas in the old cars that got 8 mil for the gallon you run out of gas before you get down to the station station to they had a little biter going to at anyway up here the top of this category where want find her is is this farm right here that's on the table this is the painting I did when I was 12 years old this is this is my grandma grandfather Mor who was here with my grandmother with there seven children this was up my mother's father this is my mother here at 10 years old in 1926 this farm and these buildings nobody out of all of these stand ever went down into the fields to take an image of this Farm everybody took pictures on the front porch of Grandma and Grandpa or out in front if we had a bunch of cousins come to visit on a Sunday nobody has ever taken an image of that part that is the only image in existence so now I'm looking for Historical Society to put that painting in to save it because that's history up north that farm as you see here with the building the out housee make Improvement remember I told you our ous over here was 75 ft up near the woods that out housee right there at the end of the wooded what a big difference you go out to the kitchen cut through the Woodshed you're in the ous no rain no snow I mean this is progress right besides that it was a two SE so then two of us could go out there and read the SE catalog both together it was a time because there was no electricity no running water my uncle at this point when I was 10 he won a little C at the local grain store l c he had four or five cows and milk every day he worked in the paper mill over in Gman bont he'd be there twice a day to milk the cows watch over Grandma and Grandpa pay the fields in the summertime that kind of stuff he won this little calf but he didn't have any signs He Said Fred I'm going to give you this calf you're 11 years old now and that will be your 48 project and he said if you stay with it in a couple of years you will have a little guy cow but then you can milk cuz you children have milk by hand then you can milk and Supply milk for Grandma and Grandpa and cream Grandma can make cottage chees all of those things happen there's that little cat where your C I even was showing how that happens and each today if you look real close to in this picture then you get up there you'll see I've drawn a line in up there's a big Stone there with a hole about this p and that was the stone that covered the well out in the front yard of Grandma's house cuz it didn't have one in the water there wasn't even a pump in the kitchen we had to go out and this next black and white picture right here I took in 1961 and that is my grandpa the you that would to be 102 he never saw the inside of a hospital until after he was 90 years old and that's in je right here is another spot this is the wom golf course that's in Joseph and you've gone up to S Village you gone by the course big hotel was there brought down my brother and I 10 and 12 11 and 12 we C that because you had people staying in that hotel that came up from Boston or Hartford or Manchester or coner up in the sumertime they wanted to be right up in the White Mountains they wanted to play their golf there was one and as a 12y old and I wasn't 5 ft tall and carrying two golf bags Unfortunately they weren't as big as they are today because these golf bags today were more than I did and in fact I think those you too but once again the beauty of presidential range all the way around that another site is in Lancaster where I went to high school before I left there and came down up Mass when I was 15 in my junior year and I went from the high school we probably had 30 kids in the senior class to a senior class in hoo that had just under 300 about a change and living in the city after living up there at any rate right there is the real theater every Saturday we had to drive from three room house over to jeon over to L why because that's shopping night you go to the grocery store because you don't run that trip every day pick up a WF of bread or whatever that's not going to work some shopping night with satday night we stocked up for the week by The End by next Friday if you were short of meat you may have peanut butter and G whatever anyway this the this the while Mom and Dad went chopping we three kids got to go in the the to see Rogers G plus whatever M and the cost to go to that theater five that the I just took this picture less than one that theater is still operating today so if you go up there and that if you look at that real close you'll see the Marquee there and back when I was when my brother and I my mother and my sister she we eventually moved off my grandfather's into Lancaster for about a year and a half and my brother was the ush in that theater and he also changed all Rec in the Marquee district and that's right here on Main Street in manester you can see that it's a big Metropolis compared to the main road going through Grand and Jon but still not a big area next you'll see a monument here in Lan and I enlarged that sign right there you need to read it here's a wolf FR statue on top of that stone and this was created at the 150th Centennial of Lancaster in 1913 to honor the people who saved Lancaster from the Wilderness that's the purpose of that this next picture in Co this is coash County in Northern New Hampshire and it's actually 80 miles to the Canadian border in Lanchester was the county seat and the county courthouse is there but this particular house which is now a museum was the first twostory quity in all of go County 1864 I'm not going to read you all this linage down here cuz it's too much I let you come up and see yourself Coos County presidential range and M Washington which is our highest point in the East 6288 ft and I caution you if you want to take a ride up to the top of Mount Washington in your Carter or take the railway up don't wear shorts and flipflops in you your back thank you very much for your attention thank you very much I think Joe has a couple of words for justce see what nature in the Hills it's so that's what I like about else I think Jo get something to say over there I'd like to have a picture with the Sher police chief off chief I just came for the C you guys up too Joe what about people who don't know my wife is terrible she right next to let you know for the last 10 and half years years she said well she being my wife I didn't want to say that happy birthday to you TR