Author Archives: Janet Lewis

The article below is the second one of a 1969 newspaper series on Women of New Hampshire. The first was on the wife of the the governor. Mum has felt shy to publish it. However, this blog is primarily for … Continue reading →

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  Fifteen ponies were in the class. Trip was the youngest rider, and Aloysius the smallest pony.  After all the competitors did their rail work (walked, trotted and cantered both ways of the ring), the judge asked the riders to … Continue reading →

One winter day in 1947, when I was fifteen, I decided to ride Little to the ski jump which was about two miles away. I hadn’t jumped for a few weeks and wanted to see my skiing friends. It was … Continue reading →

  For over one hundred years, four huge sugar maple trees had stood near Old Bedford Road in our backyard of our animal hospital. For a long time, I had wanted to tap them for sap to make maple syrup. … Continue reading →

In the thirty’s and forty’s, Mummy went to Boston for our school clothes. She bought everything at Best & Co., an up-scale clothing store…enough clothes to last until Christmas. When she came home it was so exciting for me to … Continue reading →

In the 30’s and 40’s, only the children who lived more than three miles away from school rode the ’school bus’, an old Ford sedan with a SCHOOL BUS sign on it. Tony and I usually walked the mile and … Continue reading →

                         In the early spring of 1965, five-year-old Mandy was going to ride pony Aloysius in the first horse show of the season. She was entered in the pet pony class for the very first time. Mandy had been … Continue reading →

  In my Bedford elementary school, the Stevens Buswell, there were only two classrooms, four grades to a room. I entered the first grade in 1938. For my grades one through seven, I usually had only two classmates.  Mummy and Daddy … Continue reading →

                                                                           During the 50′s and 60′s, it seemed that I was always expecting a new baby. In September 1961, I was just about full term with another one. Even though I was in this condition, on the day of a … Continue reading →