{"id":1513,"date":"2026-10-29T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:46:13","slug":"potd-oct-29-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/potd-oct-29-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"POTD &#8211; Oct 29, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Garden Party<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miss C.F. Barr threw elaborate garden parties, My question is what is the significance of the &#8220;3 CTS&#8221; floral arrangement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poltrackpix.smugmug.com\/New-Ipswich-Historical-Society\/n-XV6k6C\/New-Ipswich-Historical-Society\/i-DmpfjV3\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-DmpfjV3\/0\/Lq4dbGNJKvJvTLrQZHHXqPtLfqdVGDS4ZQcvvP4h3\/M\/BarrLawnParty-20180319-1-078-M.jpg\" alt=\"Lawn Party\" style=\"box-shadow:var(--wp--preset--shadow--natural)\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lawn Party at the grounds of Miss C. F. Barr. Photo was thought to be taken in the late 1880s. Seated at the table are Miss Constantine and a visiting friend. At right at table is Herbert F. Preston and his aunt Martha Granger Preston. The two ladies in the black dresses are Mrs. Mellen C. Bragg and Mrs. N. M. Smith. NIHS no. 1992.604<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">George Hardy&#8217;s 60th Birthday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another great photo taken by Leon R. Willard of New Ipswich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poltrackpix.smugmug.com\/New-Ipswich-Historical-Society\/n-XV6k6C\/New-Ipswich-Historical-Society\/i-V5NJq3p\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-V5NJq3p\/0\/M7StbMDR2XLBPm65wCQchjW5rFjJMzcvqnF2k5xJH\/M\/GeorgeHardy60thBirthday-18990623-1-174-M.jpg\" alt=\"George Hardy 60th Birthday\" style=\"box-shadow:var(--wp--preset--shadow--natural)\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Seated Mr. &amp; Mrs. George Hardy. Hardy family members left to right are Walter, Emma, Charlie, Nellie, Fred, Frank, Arthur in front, William. Photo taken by Leon R. Willard. NIHS collection number 1992.614.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-comments-count\">1<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of the day &#8211; Barr Garden party and George Hardy&#8217;s 60th birthday party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[46,47],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-potd","tag-george-hardy","tag-leon-r-willard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/3e3d0858-0cea-4904-8bad-94ca044ccce6_2391x1766.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newipswichhistoricalsociety.org\/wpblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}