THE LACONIA DAILY SUN, Thursday, February 2, 2017— Page 11 REMICK MUSEUM The Ford Model T Snowmobile Club will hold its 18th annual meet at the Remick Museum this weekend. (Courtesy photo) The Remick Museum in Tamworth will host its 14th annual ice harvest and winter carnival on Saturday. (Courtesy photo) T p.m. The day will feature activities for all ages, includ- ing traditional ice block cutting, piking and hoisting with the harvested ice transported to the farm’s ice house by teams of oxen for storage. Visitors can also listen to live music by Brier Hill Band in the Hearth Room, try their hand on a winter- themed craft or go on a scavenger hunt. Self-guided tours of the museum are available, including a walk through the modest apartment Doc Remick shared with his wife Marion Miles Remick; take in the “Our Medicine Through Time” and “From Fields to Fiber” exhibits and warm up with Farmhouse Kitchen favorites for purchase at the Sugarhouse, including cook-your-own hot dogs and s’more kits for enjoying at an outdoor campfire. Visitors will also have an opportunity to meet Chi- nook dogs, the New Hampshire state dog, a breed which was developed by Arthur Walden of Wonalan- cet in 1917 and were named for Chinook, who became the most famous dog in the world after leading his team to victory in the first international sled dog race in Berlin in 1922. The museum is also hosting the 18th annual meet of the Model T Ford Snowmobile Club, which opens on Friday, Feb. 3, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 5. Rides will be available on the antique machines, snow conditions permitting, which were modified for winter use with a kit developed by Virgil D. White, a Ford dealer from Ossipee. White received a patent for an attachment designed to convert a Model T into a “Snowmobile,” a name coined and copyrighted by He put it on the market during the winter of 1922 after “perfecting it in every detail,” selling the attachments exclusively through Ford dealers. The Snowmobile attachment consisted of the complete package necessary to convert a Ford into a reliable snow machine. Skis made of metal and wood and rear mounted tracks were the most noticeable differences. The standard passenger car rear axle and drive- shaft, rear spring, and radius rods were removed and replaced with a 7-to-1 Ford truck worm gear drive line attached to the frame by a pair of cantilevered semi-elliptical springs. Special heavy-duty wheels to fit the TT rear axle were provided along with anti-skip chains. Farm Specialty Manufacturing Company later bought the pat- ents of the Snowmobile Com- pany and sent its managers to run the factory in West Ossipee. From 1924 to 1929, the com- pany manufactured about 3,300 units per year in its plant at West Ossipee and had a branch warehouse in St. Paul, Min- nesota. The company closed in 1929, and the factory mysteriously burned down shortly thereafter. BY ROGER AMSDEN FOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN hosting ice harvest and winter carnival see ICE page 13
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Dining, Arts & Entertainment
REMICK MUSEUM
The Ford Model T Snowmobile Club will hold its 18th annual meet at the Remick Museum this weekend. (Courtesy photo)
The Remick Museum in Tamworth will host its 14th annual ice harvest and winter carnival on Saturday. (Courtesy photo)
The Remick Museum in Tamworth will host its 14th annual Ice Harvest and Winter Car-nival on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The day will feature activities for all ages, includ-ing traditional ice block cutting, piking and hoisting with the harvested ice transported to the farm’s ice house by teams of oxen for storage.
Visitors can also listen to live music by Brier Hill Band in the Hearth Room, try their hand on a winter-themed craft or go on a scavenger hunt. Self-guided tours of the museum are available, including a walk through the modest apartment Doc Remick shared with his wife Marion Miles Remick; take in the “Our Medicine Through Time” and “From Fields to Fiber” exhibits and warm up with Farmhouse Kitchen favorites for purchase at the Sugarhouse, including cook-your-own hot dogs and s’more kits for enjoying at an outdoor campfi re.
Visitors will also have an opportunity to meet Chi-nook dogs, the New Hampshire state dog, a breed which was developed by Arthur Walden of Wonalan-cet in 1917 and were named for Chinook, who became the most famous dog in the world after leading his team to victory in the fi rst international sled dog race in Berlin in 1922.
The museum is also hosting the 18th annual meet of the Model T Ford Snowmobile Club, which opens on Friday, Feb. 3, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 5. Rides will be available on the antique machines, snow conditions permitting, which were modifi ed for
winter use with a kit developed by Virgil D. White, a Ford dealer from Ossipee. White received a patent for an attachment designed to convert a Model T into a “Snowmobile,” a name coined and copyrighted by White in 1917.
He put it on the market during the winter of 1922 after “perfecting it in every detail,” selling the attachments exclusively through Ford dealers. The Snowmobile attachment consisted of the complete package necessary to convert a Ford into a reliable snow machine. Skis made of metal and wood and rear mounted tracks were the most noticeable differences.
The standard passenger car rear axle and drive-shaft, rear spring, and radius rods were removed and replaced with a 7-to-1 Ford truck worm gear drive line attached to the frame by a pair of cantilevered semi-elliptical springs. Special heavy-duty wheels to fi t the TT rear axle were provided along with anti-skip chains.
Farm Specialty Manufacturing Company later bought the pat-ents of the Snowmobile Com-pany and sent its managers to run the factory in West Ossipee. From 1924 to 1929, the com-pany manufactured about 3,300 units per year in its plant at West Ossipee and had a branch warehouse in St. Paul, Min-nesota. The company closed in 1929, and the factory mysteriously burned down shortly thereafter.
BY ROGER AMSDENFOR THE LACONIA DAILY SUN
hosting ice harvest and winter carnival
see ICE page 13
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Going Out Calendar Feb. 3-9
Music, Arts & Entertainment
Friday, Feb. 3“Inherit the Wind,” Winnipesaukee Playhouse , 50 Reser-voir Road, Meredith, 7:30 p.m. For details call 603-279-0333.Dueling Pianos, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford, 8 p.m. For details call 603-293-0841.Live Music - Paul Hubert, Corner House Inn, 22 Main St., Sandwich, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 4Pot Luck, Popcorn, and Free Flick, Campton Historical Society, 529 Rout 175 (North of Blair Road), Campton Hollow, 5 p.m. For details call 603_536-3982.“Inherit the Wind,” Winnipesaukee Playhouse, 50 Reser-voir Road, Meredith, 7:30 p.m. For details call 603-279-0333.Live Music - Andrea Paquin, Common Man, Ashland, 8 p.m.Live Music - Tribute to Bob Marley and Bill Withers, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford, 8 to 10 p.m. For details call
603-293-0841.
Sunday, Feb. 5“Inherit the Wind,” Winnipesaukee Playhouse , 50 Reser-voir Road, Meredith, 2 p.m. For details call 603-279-0333.
Monday, Feb. 6Team Trivia, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford, 7 to 10 p.m. For details call 603-293-0841.International Film: “Tortilla Soup,” Laconia Public Library, 6 p.m. For details call 603-524-4775.
Tuesday, Feb. 7Open Mic Night, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 8Hands Across the Table Free Community Meal, Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 31 Gilford Ave., Laconia. Doors open at
4 p.m. Meal served 5 to 6:30 p.m.Acoustic Country Pickin’ Party, Tilton Senior Center, 11 Grange Road, Tilton (Lochmere), 5:30 to 9 p.m. For details call 603-527-8291.Karaoke, Copper Kettle Tavern, Hart’s Turkey Farm Restaurant, Meredith, 7 to 11 p.m. For details call 603-279-6212.Ladies Night, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford, 7 to 10 p.m. For details call 603-293-0841Game Time Trivia, Shooters Tavern, Route 3 (DW High-way), Belmont, 8 to 10 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 9Storytelling Dinner, Corner House Inn, 22 Main St., Center Sandwich, 6:30 p.m.Acoustic Thursday - 2 Good 2 Be True Thursday, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford, 7 to 10 p.m.; Tim Hazelton at 7 p.m. and Dane Anderson at 8:30 p.m.Hart’s Trivia, Copper Kettle Tavern, Hart’s Turkey Farm Restaurant, Meredith, 7 to 9 p.m. For details call 603-279-6212.
The Remick family settled in Tamworth more than 200 years ago. Six generations of the same family worked the farm, prospered, and were active in the town’s history. The last two generations of the Remick family produced country doctors: Dr. Edwin Remick and Dr. Edwin “Doc” Crafts Remick, each of whom served the rural community where they were born and raised. Together they provided 99 years of continual medical care for the residents of Tamworth and surrounding towns.
Before his death in 1993, Dr. Edwin Crafts Remick created a foundation to preserve the family homestead, farm and history of the country doctors in a way that the public could learn from and enjoy.
Doc Remick had an ice house at his Hillside Dairy business in the 1930s and was the first dairy north of Rochester to have a pasteurization plant. In addi-tion to the cattle barn, there is also an English barn, a sugar house, an ice house and the Captain Enoch Remick house, which is on the national register of historic places, on the 100-acre homestead property.
Harvesting natural ice was a big business in New England during the 19th century and at one time ice trains with 50 cars made daily runs from nearby Milton to Boston, where as many as 600,000 tons were used each year. To this day, the historic Rock-ywold-Deephaven camp, located on Squam Lake in Holderness, still harvests ice for use in ice boxes in their cabins.
Old tools are used in the annual ice harvest at the Remick Museum in Tamworth. (Courtesy photo)
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The Remick Country Doctor Farm and Museum is located at 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth. For details, call 603-323-7591 or see www.remickmuseum.org.
