Book #7

Mt. Moosilauke Tip Top News

Robert W. Averill · 2021

Contents

Part One — The 1880s

  • INTRODUCTION: The Moosilauke Mountain Hotel Company — J. Hartness Beardsley (1937)
  • 1Mountain Sketches — Rev. Joseph B. Seabury
    • Above the Clouds — Horace L. Traubel
  • 2A Sketch of Travel — C.C. Stearns
    • Beautiful Scenery and View — F.W.W.
  • 3Three Days and Nights — Spero
  • 4A New Route
    • Aesthetic View — Tourist
    • Famous Resort — F.F. (Boston Journal)
    • Surrounding Scenery — A.W.W.
  • 5Moosilauke — Editors Times
  • 6New Mountain Path — M. Isabella Stone
    • Down Moosilauke — M. Isabella Stone
  • 7A New Summer Resort: North Woodstock
  • 8Notes from the Mountain
  • 9A Trip to Moosilauke — W.H.S.
  • 10From the Heart of New England — Prof. C.S. Richards LL.D.
    • Pleasures of A June Ascent — Charlotte E. Ricker
  • 11A Visit to Mount Moosilauke — S.P.C.
  • 12The Romance of Mrs. Jebb — (New York Sun)
    • A Lordly Summit — D.C.R. (Evening Post)
    • Points of Interest — (Among the Clouds)
  • 13Moosilauke (poem) — George B. Griffith
    • A New Hampshire Mountain-Top — H. (The Courant)
    • New Hampshire Revisited — L.F. (Boston Post)
    • Riding on a Buckboard — J.B.B. (Journal of Commerce)
  • 14Mount Moosilauke — Harriet M. Winslow (Evening Transcript)
    • A Vacation Day — B. (Bradford Opinion)
    • Breezy Point — V.C. (Mirror American)
  • 15New Hotel at Breezy Point — (Concord Monitor)
    • Along the Ammonoosuc — (The Union, Manchester Chronicle)
  • 16Ascent of Moosilauke — Julius H. Ward
  • 17The Spectator Afield — (The Christian Union)
    • The Peace of the Mountains (poem) — Annie Lenthal Smith
    • Rambling Talks — M.E.B. (Boston Herald)
  • 18Mount Moosilauke — R.B. (Home Journal)
    • Between Warren and Summit — B.
  • 19The Woodstock–Moosilauke Path — (New York Evening Post)
    • A Storm What Is A Storm — “One of the Party”
    • Sugar Hill to Moosilauke — (White Mountain Echo)
    • Moosilauke Notes — (Concord Daily Monitor)
  • 20Sky-High on a Buckboard — C.H.R. (The State Journal)
  • 21Letter from Lucy Larcom — (Portland Transcript)
    • A Cottage in a Cloud (poem) — Lucy Larcom
    • A White World (poem) — Lucy Larcom
  • 22At the Summer Resorts — Where Old Prob Finds His Match
    • Above the Clouds
  • 23Visits to Mounts Carr and Moosilauke — Rev. J.H. Hillman
    • Dear Transcript — Lucy Larcom

Part Two — The 1890s

  • 24Lost on Mt, Moosilauke — Samuel L. Gerry (Sunday Herald)
  • 25Appalachian Trip to Moosilauke — F.M.A. (Concord People & Patriot)
    • About the Mt. and Lakes — (Northern Herald)
    • Railroad Men with Ladies — (The Union)
  • 26Reminiscences of Grace Woodworth Hill
    • Woodworth–Goss Family Chronology
    • Woodworth–Goss Family Album — Breezy Point & Moosilauke
  • 27Trip to Moosilauke — X. (Laconia Democrat)
    • Moosilauke Notes — (People and Patriot)
    • A Day on a Mountain — David L. Neal (Concord Evening Monitor)
    • Trout Fishing Stories — Merrill’s Mt. House Scrapbook
  • 28Mt. Moosilauke: 1896 — F.L.C.
    • Lucy Larcom & The White Mountains — Elizabeth Porter Gould (White Mountain Echo; The Clarion)
    • Moosilauke — (The Christian Leader)

Part Three — The 1900s–1916

  • 29Moosilauke Notes
    • Almost Perished — Merrill’s Mt. House Scrapbook
    • Clippings (1909–1912) — (The Haverhill News)
    • The Symbolic Mountain (poem) — X. Cowper
  • 30Moosilauke (poem) — Grace Stuart Orcutt
  • 31Boy Scouts’ Hike — The Scoutmaster
    • Mountains Illuminated

Part Four — Voices in the Wind

  • Robert W. Averill
  • Sarah F. Woodworth
  • Mary Isabella Stone
  • Henry DeMerritt Young
  • Lucy Larcom

How easy to get lost in the woods. The subject is fruitful of reminiscences.

One said, “I entered the woods once with a man who had been much in them, intending to shorten the way by so doing to a point beyond them, and illustrated the proverb: ‘The shortest way round is the longest way home,’ for after a walk in defined paths for 18 minutes we came out of the woods exactly where we went in.”

Another said: “When I was a boy I got lost in the woods and shall never forget it. I came out on the opposite side from home. Every opening in the trees beguiled me into the hope that I was out of the woods.” Without a guide of compass or shadows, or without a knowledge of woodcraft, one is quite at sea.

But the Moosilauke mountain is not so vast as Mount Washington, where several have been lost and only their bodies found.

— Lost on Mt. Moosilauke, by Samuel L. Gerry
Tip Top News, p. 261