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For Immediate Release:

2 February 2009

Snowroller Demonstration Takes Place at Annual Winter Carnival & Ice Harvest, Saturday, February 7, 2009, 10am -2pm.

Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm has added a historic snowroller to its permanent collection, a gift from Margaret & Sut Marshall of Conway. Massive in size, and made of wood and metal, the snowroller was used in Tamworth in the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century. It was most often pulled by oxen, since they were better suited for snow rolling than horses, with an operator perched in a seat above the snowroller’s cylinder. The equipment would literally create a road of compacted snow for easy travel by horse-drawn sleighs.

Remick Museum is grateful to the Marshall Family for this gift, which forever restores the snowroller to its original home in Tamworth. The snowroller will be demonstrated by Livestock Manager, Wayne Phillips, and Remick Farm oxen, “Diamond” and “Dash,” during the Annual Winter Carnival & Ice Harvest on Saturday, February 7, 2009, from 10am-2pm.

At the Winter Carnival & Ice Harvest, visitors can cut huge blocks of ice from Remick Pond with tools and techniques from the 1800s! Use specially shaped saws, axes, chisels, forks, planers, plows, hooks, shovels and tongs.

The ice on Remick Farm Pond grows by about one inch per day when the region enters a period of below freezing temperatures. To prepare for the ice harvest, our staff clears away the snow cover on the pond, which acts as an insulator, thus inhibiting the creation of ice.

The Yankee Teamsters 4-H Working Steers Club will work their mighty oxen to haul the ice to the ice house. The Perry Greene Kennel & Outfitters, of Waldeboro, ME, along with members of the Chinook Owners Association, will give dog sled rides to youngsters, weather permitting! The Winter Carnival will include a snowball throwing contest and snowshoe obstacle course offered by the Tamworth Recreation Department. Food and refreshments will be available for sale at the concession stand including potato soup, chili, corn bread, hamburgers, cookies, coffee, tea and hot chocolate. Take a horse-drawn wagon or sleigh ride, depending on the availability of snow.

Come inside the Museum’s Visitor Center and warm up at the hearthside fire! View an exhibit on local dog sled history, and meet Karen Jones, of Nerak Kennels, Tamworth, and the New England Sled Dog Club, who will have demonstrations on dog sled making. Come see the living quarters of Dr. Edwin Crafts Remick, the country doctor who owned the property, and view exhibits on the agricultural way of life in New Hampshire from 1790 to the present.

Admission is $5 per person, which includes a sleigh ride, ice harvesting activities, dog sled rides, recreational games, and exhibits. Friends of Remick Museum receive at least one free admission to Winter Carnival depending on her/his membership level. You can apply your admission fee to Winter Carnival to a membership to the Friends of Remick Museum, and receive free general admission and free admission to special events for a whole year!

Come enjoy some outdoor winter fun, a warm fire, and a healthy dose of history. For more information on Winter Carnival & Ice Harvesting, call the Museum at (800) 686-6117 or (603)323-7591 or visit our website at .

Sut Marshall with Remick oxen and Tamworth snowroller

Sut Marshall, the teamster, poses with the Tamworth snowroller and Remick Farm oxen, “Diamond” and “Dash”.

1931 parade in Tamworth features oxen and snowroller

The Tamworth snowroller as seen in a 1931 summer parade in Tamworth. What made snow rolling obsolete? Automoblies- they could not travel on rolled out roads! As ownership of automobiles increased in rural areas, plowing, that is, removing the snow completely from the road’s surface was adopted. Photo courtesy of the Tamworth Historical Society.

Robin M. Tagliaferri Ferreira
Development Officer
Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm
58 Cleveland Hill Rd
PO Box 250
Tamworth, NH 03886
(800) 686- 6117 or (603) 323- 7591
fax (603) 323- 8382
www.remickmuseum.org
pr@remickmuseum.org

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