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Jaffrey, N. H. is the nearest place to Boston with good conditions having five inches of powder, but nearby Keene, Peterboro, and Walpole report no snow...
...list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs and instrumental solo pieces. Sensitive and nervous by temperament (a mental breakdown hastened his death at 46), MacDowell loved the country, drew inspiration and titles for his music from nature. Eventually he bought himself a strip of wooded land near Peterboro in southern New Hampshire, where he spent his last years. Before he died he expressed a wish that this country refuge might be made available to other composers, paint-ters, writers who were anxious to work in country quiet. But the realization of his wish required more money than Idealist...
Such widespread publicity, its sponsors hope, will bring additional funds to carry on the good work of the MacDowell Colony. Meanwhile, bustling, grey-haired, bright-faced little Marian Nevins MacDowell continues to lecture, to work incessantly in the Colony's interests. Next summer she hopes to be in Peterboro, as usual, administrating its affairs...
Stroke Thomas Judge of Manhattan College's crew reluctantly admitted to that the coxswain of the Rollins College crew that beat Manhattan last fortnight was a girl - Sally Stearns, 110-lb. brunette from Peterboro, N. H. "Gee," he said, "you'd never have guessed it to look...
...offered him a consulship in Mexico. Robinson declined the consulship, accepted a job in the New York Customs House, which he kept until his royalties grew big enough to support him. A shy, scholarly bachelor, he spends his winters in Boston and Manhattan, his summers at the MacDowell Colony, Peterboro, N. H., where he is the most distinguished oldtimer...