Tuesday Nov 10, 2026
151 young men and 21 young women from New Ipswich served in WWII. Hazel Moore Balch created a collection of their photos. We are in the process of cataloging them into our database.
James Roger Diary
November 10, 1908 (Tuesday)
Fine morning and afternoon, but wind changed to east in afternoon and drizzly rain and mist closed in the afternoon. David on roads down town. Got p.c. from Hamish written as he was nearing Worcester about 1125 pm last night, he had a great send off from Mr. Scripture and his fellow employees at Ayer, very gratifying to him and us. I brought in vases &c from the cemetery and Mother and I shifted some roses, covered dahlias and other odd chores.
William Jurian Kaula Diary
William Jurian Kaula and Lee Lufkin Kaula, for many years, were summer residents of Bank Village in New Ipswich. Both became accomplished New England artists; William focused on landscape painting and Lee explored a variety of genres but her portraits of women and children were the standouts. William, born in 1871, met Lee while studying art in France. They married in 1902. After a successful career, William died in 1953 and is buried in our New Ipswich Central Cemetery. Lee, born 1865, passed away four years after William in 1957 and is buried with her husband. In addition to the many images of their paintings available to enjoy on the internet, William was also a prolific diarist. While studying art in France he captured the unique experience of living in a foreign country and continued writing even after his marriage to Lee. The New Ipswich Historical Society is fortunate to have a copy of William’s diary and Kim Black has transcribed his his writings, beginning in April 1896. William surely painted as well with words as he did with watercolors.
November 10, 1897
Our studio is fast becoming more presentable. We hunted up some boards and made a book-case and shelves. It was not a skillful piece of work as we cannot handle tools. The shelves came in the corner where a beam projected a few inches and each board had to be cut and fit after a fashion.
The ladder to the balcony must be repaired again as it is very unsafe. The amount of noise that we make in sawing, hammering and pounding must disturb the occupants of the other studioes [sic] as we heard poundings on the walls and under our floor that gives evidence of their displeasure.
The interior of most French buildings are not a substantial in construction as the exterior and where plaster can be used instead of wood it is used. So the walls are but three inches or soin thickness of solid plaster between the studioes [sic].
